Figuring a Grotesque Norm
1954 Homunculus: Penfield Archives, Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Life Beside Itself is a haunted book, full of dreams and images that reach out to us, composing and decomposing into imagistic thoughts that work though the mode of uncertainty, disregarding the laws of non-contradiction meant to order waking life, like the double exposed photographs that mark some of the chapters’ beginnings.
It is also a book full of …
This is a conversation between Nick and Zoë. They cultivated this conversation especially for Commonplaces. Nick is an activist and writer who lives on ventilation. Zoë is an anthropologist and friend who does not.
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nick: They say that the fundamentals of life support and CPR are ABC (Airway, Breathing and Circulation). I say that my A and B are …