the professors, the quacks, the savage medicine
sticky, thick and putrid air
exposed to the most suitable subjects
the clinic brings into play
the study of monsters
monstrosities of human beings
in the quasi-paralysis of the intestines
this autonomous organic space
opened in time
(pain, heat, acceleration of the pulse)
open up a few corpses
through the thoracic cavity
a hasty, composite training
we have discovered a pathological anatomy...
"a clinic of symptoms seeks the living body
of the disease; anatomy provides it only
with the corpse"
a doubly misleading corpse interrupted by death
sticky, thick and putrid air
exposed to the most suitable subjects
the clinic brings into play
the study of monsters
monstrosities of human beings
in the quasi-paralysis of the intestines
this autonomous organic space
opened in time
(pain, heat, acceleration of the pulse)
open up a few corpses
through the thoracic cavity
a hasty, composite training
we have discovered a pathological anatomy...
"a clinic of symptoms seeks the living body
of the disease; anatomy provides it only
with the corpse"
a doubly misleading corpse interrupted by death
posted by Hayes at 1:58 PM
1 Comments:
Giorgio Agamben says, "If we just begin to observe the functioning of the mechanism of critical judgment in us, we must admit, even against ourselves, that everything our critical suggests to us before a work of art belongs precisely to this shadow. In the act of judgment that separates art from non-ar, we turn non-art into the content of art, and it is only in this negative mold that we are able to rediscover its reality.When we deny that a work is artistic, we mean that it has all the material element of a work of art with the exception of something essential on which its life depends, just in the same way that we say a corpse has all the elements of a living body, except that ungraspable something that makes of it a living being. Yet, when we actually find ourselves before a work of art, we behave unconsciously like a medical sudent who has studied anatomy only on corpses and who, faced with the pulsing organs of the patient, must mentally refer back to his dead anatomical model in order to orient himself."
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