Ficciones Patógenas
/Pathogenic Fictions
In “Pathogenic Fictions” I reviewed my medical history posing questions about the relationships between Body-Colonization-Discipline, organ-Colony-Nation. I reviewed my medical history to analyze the vicissitudes of how and why a small bulge in my neck had become a great clinical and family concern; I discovered and tried to show that it was also a concern of the Nation: to order the “parts of the Indies” in the image and likeness of the Western anatomical body. And that ultimately the skin had been and is for the colonized bodies the organ in dispute, control and resistance.