Medicine Disoriented

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Amanda Quan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/medicine-disoriented/. About the post: What follows is an object collection that troubles the arrival of The Clinic by engaging the historic underpinnings, cultural logics, and afterlives of its object parts. I think with the concept of simulation as one that refuses stable orientation as I deconstruct The Clinic, fold back its walls, and examine how each component is socially and politically entangled. Moving beyond the functional utility of clinical objects, I reorient my attention to their social lives and stories in order to unravel the directions of white hegemony which have shaped medicalized subjectivities, categories of citizenship, and diagnostic consequences in contemporary campaigns of exclusion. This is a project that aims to disorient and reorient by destabilizing object surfaces and welcoming alternative paths of arrival.