Medicine and the Body

Editor in Chief J. Khadijah Abdurahman introduces Logic(s) issue 21

Editor in Chief J. Khadijah Abdurahman introduces The Collective, the new organizational configuration of Logic(s)

Personal narrative of michael falco-felderman, facilitator of The Collective, about their experiences and the future of their work on the The Collective

A press release from Incite, introducing our new initiative called The Collective

“Previously, when I was outside of Sudan, I was very much like, “I’m just Sudanese.” But now, I find myself more and more—I don’t want to say less willing—but I will say I feel safer identifying as a Nuba.”

“In terms of genres of the human, I think that Sudan has a lot to tell the world about our assumptions about Man, because it’s a country that doesn’t have very many white people at all.”

“When we are engaging with African people, they tell us, ‘You’re too Arab for us.’ And when we engage with Arab people, they tell us, ‘You’re too African for us.’”

“I think that the Southern city, all Southern cities are places spatially, where you can see the collision of time, to the point where you’re like, ‘What time is it? What time am I in?’”

“I’m really self-aware at this point, in writing patient, that I am a researcher doing research in an attempt to recover that which cannot be recovered, and that is their voices.”

“Let’s call it for what it is: they’re not there to support you, they’re there to deport you.”

“The entire fantasy of living for much longer only makes sense if you have that kind of extreme wealth or if you believe that you have the capacity to achieve it.”

“The problem with relying on the art world alone is, you will only show when someone offers you an exhibition—which means if no one’s asking you to show, you don’t do anything.”

“The decimation of medicine and healthcare was a genocidal technology used to actualize as many deaths as possible—and one whose future deployment can by no means be ruled out.”

“Where does such profound love, overflowing with significance, appear in formalized, statistical data indexing and what people’s post-treatment lives mean to the world? What does it mean, to medical history or analysis, to begin with people’s relations rather than their records?”

“The truth is that we, as actors both individual and collective, are fundamentally enmeshed in/with the world. Our technologies weave their ways into our minds and bodies.”

“The sit-in became a physical embodiment of the safe spaces we had only imagined could exist online. We congregated freely and spoke without bounds. We cared for each other in immediate ways.”

“Using images to highlight the gruesome and merciless power of an oppressor does not necessarily generate sympathy for the oppressed; it can be a tool to reinforce the ruling order.”

“Adoption of a critical perspective on funding choices is possible—even for faculty previously connected to US military systems—but it is more labor intensive, entailing work that all too often lies outside of the research infrastructure universities provide.”

“The brain is the ultimate site of an individual’s identity, and implanted devices not only have access to it, but the potential to alter it.”

“The eight-hour workday was a hard-won victory by labor organizers of yesterday. Today, gig corporations are actively undermining those victories.”

“Telemedicine in India reflects larger gaps within the healthcare system.”

“Where does the carceral state end and the welfare state begin?”

A selection of poems by Gazan poet Anees Ghanima, Translator’s Note Leena Aboutaleb, and preface by Abdalhadi Alijla

“The deserted street felt like a canvas wiped clean, with only my mother and I left as the remaining strokes of a forsaken painting.”

“Brain–body transfers (BBTs) became popular with influencers and celebrity couples first. The only way to truly understand someone is to become them, the ads read.”