Ultrasonic Dreams of a Clinical Renderings

dc.contributor.authorPossible Bodies
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-11T18:29:16Z
dc.date.available2022-01-11T18:29:16Z
dc.date.issued2018-01
dc.description13 pagesen_US
dc.descriptionTo access audio files in Figure 1 of this article, download the attached MRI_SOUNDINGS mp3 file.
dc.description.abstractWhen specific intra-active technologies of ultrasound and echography violently rendered real bodies, they wondered about the see-through space-times that were left in the dark. The crystals. They read, listened and gossiped with awkwardness, intensity and urgency. Lively and clumsily smoking cigarettes, they cried as coyotes: The crisis of presence that emerged with the computational turn was shaped by the technocolonialism of turbocapitalism! Through vibrations of feminist technoscience, through friends and lovers, they heard how sonographic images produced life and mattered “real bodies”. Convoked from the dark inner space-times of the earth, the flesh, and the cosmos, particular aclinical renderings evidence that “real bodies” do not exist before being separated, cut and isolated. Listen: there is a shaking surface, a cosmological inventory, hot breath in the ear. DIWO, recreational, abstract, referential and quantifying sonic practices are already profanating the image-life industrial continuum. Ultrasound is no longer (or never was) the exclusive realm of technocrats or medical experts. These are your new devices, dim and glossy. In this partial imaginary, you’ll deep listen to their non-ocularity, following entanglements with images and imaginations; all the way into ultrasonic cosmo-dreaming, where poetic renderings and sonographies start to (re)generate (just) social imaginations. Let’s collectively resonate against technologies of ultrasound and echography and bet on practices that open up relational, semiotic-material, non-individualistic and non-anthropocentric notions of presence, that bring in transfeminist queer futures.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPossible Bodies (2018). Ultrasonic Dreams of a Clinical Renderings. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No. 13. 10.5399/uo/ada.2018.13.7en_US
dc.identifier.issn2325-0496
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/26994
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFembot Collectiveen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.titleUltrasonic Dreams of a Clinical Renderingsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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