{"id":1044437,"date":"2011-10-30T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T15:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/anatomy\/%e2%80%9cmetaphor-as-illness%e2%80%9d-lecture-by-mark-dery-embodied-fantasies-conference-sunday-october-30.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:13:12","slug":"metaphor-as-illness-lecture-by-mark-dery-embodied-fantasies-conference-sunday-october-30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/metaphor-as-illness-lecture-by-mark-dery-embodied-fantasies-conference-sunday-october-30-2.php","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMetaphor as Illness,\u201d Lecture by Mark Dery, Embodied Fantasies Conference, Sunday October 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark Dery, one of my favorite all time thinkers and lecturers, will be giving a new presentation this Sunday as part of the amazing looking Embodied Fantasies Conference<\/a>. Full details, drawn for his Shovelware blog<\/a>, below; hope to see you there!<\/p>

Live, from the Cancer Ward!
I’ll be lecturing on “Metaphor as Illness” at the School of Visual Arts this Sunday, at 1:30 P.M., in a double-header with media theorist McKenzie Wark.<\/p>

Executive Summary: A personal essay—live, from the cancer ward!—that is simultaneously a philosophical investigation into the ways in which disease widens the Cartesian chasm, untethering our thought balloons from the Body in Pain.<\/p>

Directions, program, list of speakers, HERE<\/a>.<\/p>

Teaser: During my recent hospitalization for a medical emergency—an unexpected vacation in hell, during which I had boundless hours to muse about Illness as Metaphor and The Body in Pain—I conceived the essay in question, an essay that simply had to be written, as a meditation on language, embodiment, language as embodiment, and the ontologically dislocating experience of being a patient. Drawing on my five-year tour of duty through ER’s, OR’s, and hospital wards as a cancer patient, the lecture in question combines a cultural criticism reminiscent of Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor with the mordant humor of Christopher Hitchens’s recent reports on his battle with the Big C. It’s a philosophical inquiry into the existential black comedy of being a patient—Burton’s Melancholy of Anatomy , reimagined as an episode of the cynical medical drama House.<\/p>

It’s also one of the best things I’ve ever written—a closely observed, unsparingly honest, emotionally raw self-anatomization that manages, even so, to be philosophically probing, I think.<\/p><\/blockquote>

You can find out more about the conference and its schedule by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>

Image: The Anatomy lesson of Dr Frederik Ruysch, Jan van Neck (lifted from Wikimedia Commons).<\/p>

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