She studies this transformation through maps
European perceptions of human diversity
The first part sketches
the processes through
ambivalent space
for aging femininity of
possession
of the emphasis on the importance of maps
The child then flew into the Pine Barrens, becoming
an emancipated minor. After all, who can speak
for the monster, and in so doing who may be
silenced, and what facilitates a monstrous challenge or defiance
rather than reductive
dehumanisation?
To turn into waste means to lose worth, significance, or purpose. A later text of Derrida’s can perhaps account for this.
The text is littered with
horror film,
beautiful paintings, drawings and photographs, recognition and acceptance and those who do not fit
aging, disability, and AD, books, and images, negative attitudes monstrous voices and monstrous spaces, and both
popular understanding and film.
filled with the poetry of Ursula Le Guin and the storytelling of Donna Haraway.
in in in in which
a a a a
of of of of
narratives intersect
generate generate generate
her book: a highly original
with on the one hand a, but on the other hand –
and this integration of different sources
as she states in her introduction
may well be the most and convincing aspect
It is certainly an ambiguous time
It is certainly an ambiguous time
It is certainly an ambiguous time
in shaping growing hardening
for the monster
towards –
* This poem is a collage based on the Promises of Monsters special issue (2018, vol. 2, no. 2, edited by The Monster Network), created in an online writing meeting with two of the members of The Monster Network. The material for the collage was chosen with the method of rolling an electronic dice for a) article, b) page, c) sentence. This material (8 sentences) was then edited into a poem; a collective voice, a monster, that emerges from the issue, if you may.
The materials were found from the following texts (listed in random order):
- E. J. Nielsen’s caption for Figure 20. The Jersey Devil
- Agnieszka Kotwasińska: “Un/re/production of Old Age in The Taking of Deborah Logan”
- The Monster Network (Hellstrand et al.): “Promises, Monsters and Methodologies: The Ethics, Politics and Poetics of the Monstrous”
- Marietta Radomska: “Promises of Non/Living Monsters and Uncontainable Life”
- Nicola Moffat: “Monstrous Promises: Performative Acts and Corporeality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
- Donna McCormack’s review on Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (Tsing et al.)
- “Monster Talk: A Virtual Roundtable with Mark Bould, Liv Bugge, Surekha Davies, Margrit Shildrick and Jeffrey Weinstock” (edited by Donna McCormack)
- Erling Sandmo’s review on (Surekha Davies) Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
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