TY - JOUR AU - Gullion, Jessica Smartt PY - 2019/02/27 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Pathology: A Diffractive Encounter of Machine/Body JF - Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal JA - Art/Research International VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Art/Research In Action DO - 10.18432/ari29404 UR - https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29404 SP - 312-321 AB - I’ve been thinking about poems and about college as rhizomes (Deleuze and Guattari 1987), and as diffractive techniques (Barad 2007; Gullion 2018) for thinking about the social world. This project emerged as a way for me to understand my embodied experience of abdominal surgery. I began with the creation of an art journal, and then wrote a poem to accompany the images. I created the images and the text while thinking about my experience of undergoing surgery and diffracting that through Haraway’s (2016) ideas about cybernetics and machine bodies. ER -