Stephanie Mathis

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LifeCell (corporate vision: “surgery without complications”) brands the sterilized cadaver skin4 used as a sling for breast implants as “Alloderm,” but hygienic nominalism could do nothing to afford how this fraction of a dead person implanted in me filled the dream life of April 2015 with a wide and recurring version of a cadaver’s terror.
The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
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