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- [ Poesis/The Slab1.0 ] [ By aleph-6 ]
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- Poesis/The Slab1.0
- by aleph-6
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- Working part-time as a teacher in the academy. Crawling the cracks.
- Practices performative hermeneutics, scratch-derrida, shuffles an electronic
- card system, a 3d concept matrix, a looped tape, a non-representational movie
- with strange atemporal rhythm projected onto the back wall, weird anamorphic
- distortions from the overspill on the side walls and ceiling.
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- sits down to write. bitten by an insect with a grooved metal tongue, slaps
- it away, lapses into unconsciousness, dreaming jade green tangle of vegetable
- matter, irresistible gravitation towards tangible biomass, immediately
- implicated in the placeness of this strange space. aberration in the field
- of vision, dissolving into eddies of infinite regress at the edges,
- disorientation, epileptic seizure, coma, death.
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- It is a grey room, ordered arrays of tools. A tray of knives: a post-mortem
- knife, a cartilage knife, a seven inch brain knife. Another tray with sets
- of both blunt and sharp pointed surgical scissors. A trolley, scalpel and
- dissection forceps, grooved director and a probe, some bone forceps, and a
- small butcher's saw. On a stainless steel bench a chisel and mallet, scales
- and weights, a set of measuring cylinders, bacteriological requisites for
- taking smears and cultures, fixing solution (used for perceiving specimens),
- needles, thread, sponges and tow, sawdust, a single white kneecap.
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- The body white on the slab. It had still been warm when it was brought in,
- but its muscles were slowly stiffening, starting with the jaw, spreading
- outwards to the limbs. A man is standing on the right side of the body. He
- reaches down with his left hand and extends the chin, entering the knife
- just above the prominence of the thyroid cartilage. He makes an incision
- down to the pubes. In the neck, he divides the skin and subcutaneous
- tissue. Over the sternum, the incision goes down to the bone. The abdomen
- is cautiously opened, and he gags at the foul smelling gas that escapes
- from the peritoneal cavity into the lower pressure of the room. Pausing,
- then retracting the edges of the wound, scraping back the skin with a
- scalpel, securing the excess to the slab with steel pins. All the while
- making notes to a terminal, an electric eye in the ceiling records the
- dissection.
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