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Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided
he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and
he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that
aim. That determination led him to his most experimental and
incendiary project, To Have Done with the Judgement of God,
1947-48, in which he attempted to create a new language of texts,
screams, and cacophonies: a language designed to be heard by
millions, aimed, as Artaud said, for "road-menders." In the
broadcast, he interrogated corporeality and introduced the idea of
the "body without organs," crucial to the later work of Deleuze and
Guattari. The broadcast, commissioned by the French national radio
station, was banned shortly before its planned transmission, much
to Artaud's fury. This volume collects all of the texts for To Have
Done with the Judgement of God, together with several of the
letters Artaud wrote to friends and enemies in the short period
between his work's censorship and his death. Also included is the
text of an earlier broadcast from 1946, Madness and Black Magic,
written as a manifesto prefiguring his subsequent broadcast.
Clayton Eshleman's extraordinary translations of the broadcasts
activate these works in their extreme provocation.
This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in
the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century
France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning
literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory.
This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in
the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century
France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning
literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory.
This book was conceived with the object of presenting to doctors
and medical students with a potential interest in the disciplines
of orthopaedic surgery, diagnostic radiology and orthopaedic
pathology, a volume which would contain basic and essential
information concerning those disorders of the skeleton in which a
common interest exists. Diagnosis in such conditions is dependent
on close collaboration between specialists in these subjects. As
medical knowledge has advanced, so the necessity for detailed
specialisation has increased. As a result co-operation in a
combined approach has become of great importance. The method of
presentation, in the form of Exercises, is designed to permit
readers to test their own diagnostic ability. The book consists of
ninety-four problems of diagnosis which might be encountered in any
orthopaedic unit. The case material has been chosen to emphasise
those conditions in which appreciation and integration of the
clinical, radiological and pathological features are required in
order to establish the diagnosis.
The tremendous expansion of medical knowledge during the last few
decades, together with the introduction of many new diagnostic
techniques, has demanded such a degree of specialisation that no
single individual can be conversant with all the information
available. More and more emphasis, therefore, has been placed on
the importance of teamwork and close collaboration between
associated disciplines. The bone dysplasias of infancy represent a
classical example of this concept. Only a few years ago these
heritable conditions were divided into a relatively small number of
entities, for many of which "atypical variants" were accepted. More
recent studies have resulted in appreciation and early recognition
of a large number of these disorders, thanks to co-operation
between paediatricians, radiologists, geneticists and biochemists.
Not only maya reasonably accurate prognosis be offered for the
affected child in many instances, but, almost of greater value,
genetic counselling concerning the chance of subsequent offspring
being similarly affected has become available to parents. Most
radiologists have little opportunity of becoming familiar with this
rapidly widening field of diagnosis, so that the occasional case
which may be encountered is likely to engender diagnostic
difficulty. This Atlas should facilitate greatly the solution of
the problem. It has been prepared by Professor CREMIN, an
outstanding paediatric radiologist whose work has been known and
admired by me for many years, in close collaboration with his
colleague Professor BEIGHTON, a geneticist of great distinction.
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