The Body in Pain
<p>For <em>How To Sleep Faster</em> we were looking for contributions that focused on <em>The Body in Pain</em>. The title is taken from the book by Elaine Scarry, which examines pain with regard to ‘making’ and ‘unmaking’ the world. Thinking about Guantanamo Bay as the emblem of the time we’ve come of age, thinking about the political use and the political meaning of pain inflicted: war, torture, natural disaster and disaster capitalism, shock therapy economics and shock therapy for uncooperative or dysfunctional subjects. Institutional violence and the violence of institutions</p> <p>Pain is what we know and the limit of what we know: our own pain may <em>‘be thought of the most vibrant example of what it is to “have certainty”</em></p> <p>Pain is what we don’t know: for the other person it is so elusive that <em>“hearing about pain” may exist as the primary model of what it is “to have doubt”</em></p> <p>Pain is the ultimate subjective experience, where one person ends and another person begins. From the experience of witnessing, to empathy and politics (laid out by many theorists from Ranciere to Moten), we cannot equalise nor share, but recognise that one another have felt <em>something</em> that cannot be identical one’s own feeling…</p>
Editors: Rózsa Farkas, Aurelia Guo
Contributors: Kris Lemsalu, Giulia Smith, Ursula Biemann, Edward Shenk, Anne Boyer, Ghislaine Leung, Amy Lien, Enzo Camacho, Saidiya Hartman, Frank B. Wilderson, III, Huey Copeland, Rebecca Bligh, Catherine Grant, Babak Ghazi, Ishita, Emily Pope, David Burchell, Grace Dunham, Liv Wynter, Penny Goring, C.R.E.A.M., Taylor le Melle, Imran Perretta, Majed Aslam, Aurelia Guo, Hannah Proctor, Morag Keil
Cover Image: Amy Lien, Enzo Camacho
Designer: Zhoe Granger
Gallery Assistant: Ruth Pilston, Sharlean Reynolds
Part of: How To Sleep Faster
ISSN: 20523777