CREATE A CORPOLENTO FOR YOURSELF: WRITE A BODY IN LETTERS

Abstract

Inspired by Antonin Artaud and his theater of cruelty, the goal is to think about the body, experimenting with it in tension with the modern-colonial project and its family policies. Confronted with the onslaught of capitalist life, through numerous biomedical, state, and market interventions that pathologize and subject fat bodies to an active, business-driven, fitness lifestyle; or, still, through activist practices aimed at empowering the fat body—both subjection and empowerment being individualized—the following detour question arises: how does one create a corpulent body for oneself? By making this question a shared territory of life and research, we propose clues for a way of doing things, inviting an embodied and fattened clinical-politics woven through letter writing, a politics of narrativity that writes and inscribes another temporality into the body.