{"id":180,"date":"2003-09-21T22:28:50","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T02:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2003-09-21T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T02:28:50","slug":"skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shelley Jackson has announced a “mortal work of art”<\/a>: a text written by her, to be tattooed on peoples’ bodies, one word per person. The work will not be published in any other form, and “the full text will be known only to participants, who may, but need not choose to establish communication with one another.” (Via Die, Puny Humans<\/a>). The participants ” are not understood as carriers or agents of the texts they bear, but as its embodiments.” Consequently, the work will not be immortal, but will perish as the people whose bodies bear it pass away.
\nI’ve long admired Jackson’s prose, both her hypertext works (like Patchwork Girl<\/em><\/a> and My Body<\/em><\/a>) and her printed volume of short stories, The Melancholy of Anatomy<\/em><\/a>.
\nBut this new project is so beautiful it takes my breath away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shelley Jackson has announced a “mortal work of art”<\/a>: a text written by her, to be tattooed on peoples’ bodies, one word per person. The work will not be published in any other form, and “the full text will be known only to participants, who may, but need not choose to establish communication with one another.” (Via Die, Puny Humans<\/a>). The participants ” are not understood as carriers or agents of the texts they bear, but as its embodiments.” Consequently, the work will not be immortal, but will perish as the people whose bodies bear it pass away.
\nI’ve long admired Jackson’s prose, both her hypertext works (like Patchwork Girl<\/em><\/a> and My Body<\/em><\/a>) and her printed volume of short stories, The Melancholy of Anatomy<\/em><\/a>.
\nBut this new project is so beautiful it takes my breath away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","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=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}