Dodie Bellamy
When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781584351689
- author:
- Dodie Bellamy
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- MIT Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 248
- Dimensions:
- 15.2 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm
- Genre:
- Biographies & True Stories
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Dodie Bellamy's lyrical explorations of illness, health, and the body are collected in this moving essay. In essays that balance wit with darkness, she examines the social body and individual body, taking on topics such as vomit, Kathy Acker's wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland. Bellamy meditates on her dying mother's last days through an unlikely cipher, and critiques the displacement of tech consciousness in her neighborhood. This essay blends forms to assert that subjectivity is not stable when sickness prevails, and that those defined as sick may be its saviors. Through a deft blend of styles, Bellamy proclaims the "undeath of the author" and celebrates micro-revolts on the outskirts. Her work offers a powerful critique of heteronormativity and capitalism, and is marked by a piercing insight into the complexities of mortality and subjectivity.
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