[...]early 20th century medical ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> شکننده a body that is ='strcls'>*brittle because ="trms">integrated='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='strcls'>*="trms">integrated because brittle='strcls'>*
wartime and postwar therapeutics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> conceptions of the body
="ppl">Geroulanos and ="ppl">Meyers (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Foucauldian) show “how particular kinds of injury emerged during ="trms">World War I, and how such injuries found their place in the bodies and life="trms">worlds of wounded soldiers and doctors, and in the thinking and actions of theorists and policy makers.” (ethnography of the ="trms">interwar period)
='lgc'>=/= proposing a counter-body or counter ="trms">epistemology or resistance knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
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“in this ="trms">world, we do not play chess with eternal figures like the king and the fool; the figures are what the successive con="trms">figurations of the chessboard make of them.” -Veyne
(='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">integration='lgc'>:) taxonomy of disorder ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> administrative ends (an idea of entire ="trms">system of organic functioning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> homeostasis='lgc'> = "the wisdom of the body” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> theories of norms, normality, dis="trms">integration, catastrophe)
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea of a damaged ="trms">world in need of meticulous care
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea of the injured body that seeks to stabilize itself
='at'>#="trms">integration
the ="trms">interwoven ="trms">data recovered from the study of ="trms">systemic and functional aspects of the broken organism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> totality ='lgc'>~ establishment of a nonliberal individualism (='lgc'>+ ="trms">social welfare) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>**="trms">society='lgc'> = an ="trms">integrated and fragile whole in need of care='strcls'>**
today's ="trms">integrative medicine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conceptualizations of the whole body ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> picture of the patient='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•neoliberal in character
="lsts lst1">•(always) future tense in orientation
destiny='lgc'> = personalized medicine (a project to anticipate and guide the patient's destiny)
welfare state's widest possible in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of its citizens clashes with the realities of the ="trms">marketplace
to reconcile the individual's cognitive and physical realities with the particular ="trms">demands of their ="trms">world
...="trms">sociological quest to understand the locus of injury
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
duet of ="trms">integration-crisis (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> whole-body ideals)
(="ppl">Geroulanos and ="ppl">Meyers argue that) understanding ="trms">integration and crisis in medicine ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to wrap our heads around the way later-dominant cybernetic and structura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list theories located the individual in the ="trms">world
bodily ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ='lgc'>[in='lgc'>] ="trms">integrations of domestic ="trms">societies
the ="trms">integrated, dis="trms">integrating human body='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a new site of meaning and care
="lsts lst1">•subject for new analogies of body biological and body politic
="lsts lst1">•object of direct experimentation
="trms">story of the human body (at once ="trms">social ='and'>& biological)
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="trms">question of ="trms">technology
='lgc'>--locational='lgc'>='lgc'>--> where does the ="trms">technological take place='qstn'>?
(and when='qstn'>?)
="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (latecomers were) addicted to ="trms">technology
“under what conditions we could arrive at a free ="trms">relation to ="trms">technology='qstn'>?”
="ppl">Heidegger problem with addicted ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*ad="trms">diction is content with what is merely available='strcls'>* (it never surpasses this limit) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anxiety
="ppl">Avital focus on the ='strcls'>*chemical prosthesis='strcls'>*
in war, ="trms">drugs become another piece of ="trms">="trms">equipment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> taking the pill='lgc'>: ="trms">technologizing oneself into the war machine
heroin comes from heroisch
="trms">technically calibrated culture
="trms">drug ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">hallucinated exteriority
electronic/="trms">drug culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Nancy ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Blanchot's) désœuvrement='lgc'>: without an end or program, an unworking that nonetheless occurs
how the ='strcls'>*prosthetic subject='strcls'>* is constituted
(Junger's ="trms">drug, ="ppl">Heidegger's tech, ="ppl">Benjamin's hashish, de Quincey's opium, Duras's alcoholizations='lgc'>:) a saturated text, pushing beyond the ="trms">materiality of the ="trms">book though not into any ideality
the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to ="trms">drugs ='lgc'>+ the supplementary ="trms">interiority that they produce
there has never been a war on ="trms">drugs that is not carried by another type of ="trms">drug (="trms">religion, patriotism, oil, TV)
="trms">history of narcotica ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">history of culture
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]intoxication='lgc'>: (names) a ="trms">method of mental labor that is ="trms">responsible for making phantoms appear ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mnemonic ="trms">apparatus
“you have something in you that must be killed” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ambivalent stimulant/tranquilizer
body proper regains its corruptible organic status
self-medication and vitamins become the occupation of every singularity
="trms">drugs explore fractal ="trms">interiorities (='lgc'>=/= seeking an exterior transcendental dimension)
r="trms">enunciation چشم پوشی، ترک، کناره گیری، قطع علاقه
(addict='lgc'> = nonrenouncer)
virtual reality
cyberprojections
(Dasein's) dependency='lgc'>: a state in which ="trms">anxiety is still bound
='strcls'>*="trms">mimetic poisoning='strcls'>* (of pharma="trms">codependency as="trms">sociated with ="trms">literature, as sedative, as cure, as escape, etc.) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relationship to law
(our French ="trms">heritage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Flaubert='lgc'>: “a thinker should have neither ="trms">religion nor fatherland nor even any ="trms">social conviction”) ='strcls'>*thinking='lgc'> = radically rupturing='strcls'>*
="trms">drugs forced decision upon the subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de Quincey
opium='lgc'>: the transparency upon which one could review the ="trms">internal conflict of freedom (='lgc'>+ encounters the ="trms">abyss of destructive jouissance)
war against pain
higher forms of ="trms">drug
='strcls'>*(like any good parasite) ="trms">drugs ="trms">travel both inside and out of the boundaries of a ="trms">narcissistically defended politics='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==producing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a lexicon of body control and a private property of self
="trms">drug's virtual and fugitive patterns
they have a secret ="trms">communications ="trms">network with the ="trms">internalized order
Madame Bovary='lgc'> = clinic of phantasms
everything said about ="trms">technology can be applied to ="trms">drugs='lgc'>: acceleration, speed, inertia, the third ="trms">interval
="trms">drug/medicine ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•deaden the pain
="lsts lst1">•separate from a poisonous maternal flux
...
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucinated plenitude
="lsts lst1">•pure ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= transcendental telepathy
(have in mind that) any substance can function as a ="trms">drug
“It wasn't clear then whether the body was private property or not, whether the ="trms">authorities could legislate zoning ordinances, or whether pleasure and liberty were values freely exercised upon a ="trms">coded body.”
="prgrph">-="ppl">Avital
='mywrk'>my work over the etymology of the signifier ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moon index
(i shoot up trash ="trms">fiction)
(="ppl">Freud) ='strcls'>*pain is imperious='strcls'>* متکبر
(failing) to meet the requirements of an authentic alterity
(we are) into forgetting and the simulacrum (='lgc'>=/= truth)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucinator='lgc'>: the creature of the simulacrum (par excellence)
(trafficking in) abstract forms of forgetting
the poor
the body-broken
the racially ="trms">hallucinated other
chemical prosthesis (mushroom or plant) ="trms">responds to a fundamental structure
="trms">drug addict ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mystical transport going nowhere
="trms">drug addict offers her body to the production of ="trms">hallucination, vision, or trance
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> going nowhere fast
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being exposed to existence='lgc'> = placing one's body in the grips of a temporality that pains ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ad="trms">dictive='lgc'> = artificial, beside oneself
="trms">drugs ='lgc'>--linked-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mode of departing, to de="trms">socialization ='lgc'>[without the assurance of arriving anywhere='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= activity of ="trms">writing) ='lgc'>=/= production of real value
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...movement of the simulacrum without address (or, in another idiom, without purpose, point)
="ppl">Nietzsche was the first philosopher who ='lgc'>--="ppl">Avital='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lstsrd">1. to think with his body
="lstsrd">2. to put out the call for a supramoral imperative
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we are implicated inscribed dis="trms">articulated and reresignifed by ="trms">technological prosthesis
there is no outside to ="trms">technology
there is no off switch to ="trms">technology
="trms">wonderological tracks of ="trms">technology
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how much ="trms">nature has to change before our descendants cease to be human='qstn'>?
about when in the course of evolution our ="trms">ancestors became human='qstn'>?
(unanswerable good ="trms">questions)
if the human is not the one ="trms">consuming, who is='qstn'>?
="trms">animals ="trms">consume
(numinous ="trms">agentic status of) dead ="trms">consumer
human aspects of ="trms">consumption='lgc'>: learning, decision making, reason, perception, ethics, ="trms">agency, desire and choice ='lgc'>--arise='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*between humans and intelligent machines='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]posthuman='lgc'>: a move that seeks to locate being, or aliveness, or meaning in the not-quite-human-[...]