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Founding documents #9: Mock-ups are just mazes without walls (level up!)
Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM From: Joe Milazzo To: eric lindley Superb! Thanks so much! I will continue tweaking and such. My eyeballs feel all crossed up, still, but maybe if I go read some Francis Ponge and then come back to the code… These sprites are all sourced from vintage arcade games. […]
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Excesses of the Latin American body / Excesos del cuerpo latinoamericano
The disease imaginary (and health, as its binary opposition) is culturally diverse and sometimes contradictory. For example, in Mexico the relationship with death is not a conceptual antonym of life; the idea of death[1], as with life, is festive and politically incorrect. In Mexico, we know that all the paths to permanence […]
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Pharmacopornographic dawn day one / Amanecer Farmacopornográfico día uno
The following poem is taken from the book Farmacotopía (awarded the Gilberto Owen Poetry Prize in 2011), by Óscar David López, and was translated into English by Cristina Rivera-Garza. Pharmacopornographic Dawn Day One, was published in “New American Writing” in the New political poetry from Mexico series. It is important to note that Farmacotopía will […]
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world in miniature / mundo miniatura
For Leonardo da Vinci the human body was similar to a world in miniature (sea of blood, bones which are the support to the flesh as well as the world has rocks which are the support of the earth). This anatomical worldview had its origins in Antiquity and continued until the modern era. This metaphor […]
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On preserving health / Sobre conservar la salud
Many of the prevailing myths and truths about health of our time originate in one medieval source: the School of Salernum (Scuola Medica Salernitana). Founded in the 9th century, the School of Salernum was the first school of its kind during the medieval period. There is speculation about the reason for its foundation, which persists […]
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Health tourism (video)
The following audiovisual collage about health tourism was made in Tijuana. It was a collaboration between myself and Omar Pimienta, a visual artist and poet. We want to thank to those involved (voluntarily and involuntarily) in the making of this video. El siguiente es un collage audiovisual, a propósito del turismo de salud. El […]
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Health tourism* / Turismo de salud
In her book, Illness as metaphor and AIDS and Its metaphors, Susan Sontag, begins by stating: Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, […]
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The gift of disease III / El don de la enfermedad III
My meeting with Greg Schelkun signalled my entry into a school. A school in which I, who had done things such as bodybuild for most of my adult life, began to learn about my body. I want to introduce two of the people I met in this school. Greg is a big, gentle man who […]
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The gift of disease II / El don de la enfermedad II
The reduction of all that one is to materiality is a necessary part of the practice of conventional western medicine. Actually, I was this one thought: I knew I wanted to live. To live was to stay alive and to not be reduced to materiality. There was no way I was going to go through […]
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The gift of disease I / El don de la enfermedad I
by Kathy Acker I am going to tell this story as I know it. Even now, it is strange to me. I have no idea why I am telling it. I have never been sentimental. Perhaps just to say that it happened. In April of last year, I was diagnosed of having breast […]
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The lusting for infinity / El deseo de infinidad
This collaboration is titled after a phrase[1] from Kathy Acker’s novel, Blood and Guts in High School. When I first read it, I knew I would use it as an epigraph in order to write a text; however, the phrase has been so organic that it has served as an exquisite excuse to write […]
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Let’s see those hip checks!
There is something I find totally captivating about hockey hip checks. Subtle but spectacular.