SUKAATO

critical theory

The systematic critical analysis of systemic power relations in society, especially in their influence on or underpinning in normative communication, social knowledge production, and popular or conventionl concepts of values like “truth”, with the normative aim of challenging or undermining those systemic power relations

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The Torture Rack

Cracking, stretching and snapping, sinews become joined by annihilation, pouring crimson rivers and tears over the wood. The body torn, having been pulled in maximum tension–facilitated by the binding of the extremities to the two ends of the rack. This torture is one that has existed before and after its material invention and medieval practice, as in my experience it serves as imagery for the bifurcation of the social body into a symbolic binary.