Open AccessLoose Leaf
Author(s) -
Lindsay Eales
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
canadian journal of disability studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-9192
DOI - 10.15353/cjds.v5i3.297
Subject(s) - manifesto , performative utterance , misnomer , poetry , aesthetics , politics , reading (process) , embodied cognition , white (mutation) , sociology , art , visual arts , psychology , literature , philosophy , law , political science , linguistics , epistemology , theology , chemistry , biochemistry , gene
A shuffle. Do you experience the following? Cigarette smoke and white cheddar popcorn. It’s all in my pretty little head. Crinkling paper bedsheets. Excess. A woman who swallowed a fly, leaves and steel. A polka-dot collar. Blink... Side effects are a misnomer. An artist’s manifesto. Non-linear. I want to be disjointed, unformed, messy, hurting, mad. Madness is both personal and political. Through an autoethnographic series of performative poetry and prose, Loose Leaf intends to evoke encounters with some of the affects, experiences, and politics of madness and psychiatrization. It works to offer both an embodied and theoretical engagement with one form of mad performance, and to compel readers to perform a form of mad reading.