Dreaming in the fault zone : a poetics of healing /
In the era of the "chronic acute" long predating COVID-19, Eleni Stecopoulos set out to investigate the imagination, aesthetics and ideology of healing, its mysteries and mystifications, its many channels and codes. Fusing lyrical inquiry with cultural criticism, Dreaming in the Fault Zone...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nightboat Books,
[2024].
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| Summary: | In the era of the "chronic acute" long predating COVID-19, Eleni Stecopoulos set out to investigate the imagination, aesthetics and ideology of healing, its mysteries and mystifications, its many channels and codes. Fusing lyrical inquiry with cultural criticism, Dreaming in the Fault Zone explores art's treatment of our conditions at a time of both increased cynicism about healing and longing for it. Stecopoulos talks to physicians, poets, psychotherapists, disability activists, ethnographers, spiritual seekers, curates performances and takes part in community rituals and documents pilgrimages and visits therapeutic landscapes. Whether writing about the poet HD's psychoanalysis with Freud or madness and apartheid in Bessie Head's novel A Question of Power, the salve of demagogues or a global alliance of people with contested illnesses, Stecopoulos confronts the poetics and politics of affliction, empathy, memory and survival. Weaving together esoteric scenes and everyday practice, with flashes of humor, these essays travel in a space of impasse and unending experiment. |
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| Physical Description: | 409 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1643622374 9781643622378 |