[pmamtraveller]

Women’s self-defense gloves from the 1850’s, London

[sufferingfeels]

Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist

[snototter]

The endoparisitic fungus Cordyceps caloceroides growing out of a tarantula in Ecuador

by Dash Huang

[witch-breaker]

"Immobile, seeing and hearing nothing for 48 hours, this girl seeks entrance in her mind's world... behind the mask."

[victoreli]

Becoming an Image Performance, Heather Cassils

[stlamb]

ibis_hospital

[mawmenny]

[menecrates]

happy sometimes you just want something so hard you have to lie about it so you can hold it in your mouth for a minute monday

[menecrates]

yeag

[physiologicdeadspace]

Joseph Maclise (1815 - 1880)

[segmentedleg]

Sarawak swellshark egg case

[user7038634357]

[sonofa-dream]

Bodies aren't some kind of fullness or filled space (space is filled everywhere): they are open space, implying, in some sense, a space more properly spacious than spatial, what could also be called a place. Bodies are places of existence, and nothing exists without a place, a there, a "here," a "here is," for a this. The body-place isn't full or empty, since it doesn't have an outside or an inside, any more than it has parts, a totality, functions, or finality. It's acephalic and aphallic in every sense, as it were. Yet it is a skin, variously folded, refolded, unfolded, multiplied, invaginated, exogastrulated, orificed, evasive, invaded, stretched, relaxed, excited, distressed, tied, untied. In these and thousands of other ways, the body makes room for existence.

jean-luc nancy, “aphallus and acephale” in corpus. p.14 (trans. richard a. rand)

[emmaklee]

Walter Oltmann

[nobrashfestivity]

Joan Miró Illustrations, Volume III from L'Antitête 15.5 x 12.5 cm MoMA New York

[frenchcurious]

Joan Miró (1893-1983). Barcelona VIII, from Série Barcelona, 1973. - source Heritage Auctions.

[oddkreature]

@ Pedro Friedeberg

[nemfrog]

"The Pulmonic Medusa." The naturalist's miscellany. 1789. Rhizostoma pulmo.

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