Tag: anorexia

1) Emmy Hyche, “Corpse Logic” 

2) Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl 

3) Magda Romanska, “NecroOphelia: Death, femininity and the making of modern aesthetics”

5) Joshua Foer, “A Minor History of Useful Corpses”

6) Alice Notley, “Bobby (First Visit Back to the States”, Mysteries of Small Houses

7) Claudia Rankine, Citizen

8) Kathy Acker, “The Following Myth of Romantic Suffering Has to be Done Away With”

9) Claudia Rankine | Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

10) Rebecca Solnit, “A Rape a Minute, A Thousand Corpses a Year: Hate crimes in America—and elsewhere—add up to the world’s longest war”

Like me, the Alien is anorexic. Sometimes we talk about our malabsorption problems. Everything turns to shit. Food’s uncontrollable. If only it were possible to circumvent the throat, the stomach and the small intestine and digest food just by seeing. After several weeks, the Alien decides that he will no longer make love to me because I’m ‘not the One.’ Aliens spend their lifetimes on this planet testing, searching. They get dewy-eyed, nostalgic about hometown virgins.

Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia

The anorexic prefigures this culture in rather a poetic fashion by trying to keep it at bay. He refuses lack. He says: I lack nothing, therefore I shall not eat. With the overweight person, it is the opposite: he refuses fullness, repletion. He says: I lack everything, so I will eat anything at all. The anorexic staves off lack by emptiness, the overweight person staves off fullness by excess. Both are homeopathic final solutions, solutions by extermination.

Jean Baudrillard, America: Vanishing Point (full text here)

Tiqqun, from Sonogram of a Potential (full text here )