Event overview
Goldsmiths Literature Seminar
Dr. Nerea Arruti (University of Aberdeen)
This paper focuses on the ways in which the photo-essay Humanario (1976) highlights the hardship suffered by the patients kept in an Argentinian state-run asylum. The book includes texts by the psychiatrist Fernando Pagés Larraya and the writer Julio Cortázar alongside photographs by Alicia D’Amico and Sara Facio The aim of the paper is to examine the anti-psychiatry movement’s response to traditional medical methods, the political and philosophical discussion of madness in the context of Argentina in the late 1970s and the exploration of the photographic representation of mental illness. The photo-essay offers a visual essay on the suffering of others as articulated by Susan Sontag, the images show evidence of a historical case in point of the treatment of madness in society as discussed by Foucault, and from a philosophical perspective, both texts and images exemplify Giorgio Agamben’s views on the human.
Photo credit: Untitled photograph by Alicia D’Amico from the Photo-Essay Humanario
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| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 28 Jan 2010 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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