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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHealth 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....
View ArticleHealth 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View Articleworld 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...
View ArticlePharmacopornographic 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....
View ArticleExcesses 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...
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