A writer takes on subjects as varied as vomit, Kathy Acker's
wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, in lyric explorations of illness,
health, and the body. A moving meld of essay, memoir, and story,
When the Sick Rule the World collects Dodie Bellamy's new and
recent lyric prose. Taking on topics as eclectic as vomit, Kathy
Acker's wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, Bellamy here examines
illness, health, and the body-both the social body and the
individual body-in essays that glitter with wit even at their
darkest moments. In a safe house in Marin County, strangers
allergic to the poisons of the world gather for an evening's
solace. In Oakland, protesters dance an ecstatic bacchanal over the
cancerous body of the city-state they love and hate. In the elegiac
memoir, "Phone Home," Bellamy meditates on her dying mother's last
days via the improbable cipher of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial. Finally, Bellamy offers a piercing critique of
the displacement and blight that have accompanied Twitter's move
into her warehouse-district neighborhood, and the pitiless
imperialism of tech consciousness. A participant in the New
Narrative movement and a powerful influence on younger writers,
Bellamy views heteronormativity and capitalism as plagues, and
celebrates the micro-revolts of those on the outskirts. In its deft
blending of forms, When the Sick Rule the World resiliently and
defiantly proclaims the "undeath of the author." In the realm of
sickness, Bellamy asserts, subjectivity is not stable. "When the
sick rule the world, mortality will be sexy," Bellamy prophesies.
Those defined by society as sick may, in fact, be its saviors.
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