{"id":132,"date":"2003-07-10T23:08:21","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T03:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2003-07-10T23:08:21","modified_gmt":"2003-07-11T03:08:21","slug":"colossal-colon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Colossal Colon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/archives\/Colon.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/archives\/Colon.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/archives\/Colon-thumb.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToday I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingtorecovery.com\/colossalcolon.htm\">Colossal Colon<\/a>. It&#8217;s a forty-foot long tunnel, representing a human colon; you can crawl through it, and see all the diseases to which the colon is subject, culminating in full-blown cancer. I had to go because I am hereditarily predisposed to be at a high risk for colon cancer; but mostly because of the sheer perversity of such an anal representation. And indeed, though the purpose of the exhibition is high-mindedly educational&#8211;to warn people of the medical risks, and urge them to get tested for colon polyps or cancer&#8211;it really best works as a bizarre piece of participatory installation art. Somehow I erased my photo of the entire thing, with me entering it at the upper (intestinal rather than anal) end; so instead I have put up a photo of the repulsive interior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingtorecovery.com\/colossalcolon.htm\">Colossal Colon<\/a>. It&#8217;s a forty-foot long tunnel, representing a human colon; you can crawl through it, and see all the diseases to which the colon is subject, culminating in full-blown cancer. I had to go because I am hereditarily predisposed to be at a high risk for colon cancer; but mostly because of the sheer perversity of such an anal representation. And indeed, though the purpose of the exhibition is high-mindedly educational&#8211;to warn people of the medical risks, and urge them to get tested for colon polyps or cancer&#8211;it really best works as a bizarre piece of participatory installation art. Somehow I erased my photo of the entire thing, with me entering it at the upper (intestinal rather than anal) end; so instead I have put up a photo of the repulsive interior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}