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... This chapter focuses on accounts of mended and patched lives, exploring them for threads of kindnesses and poisonous knowledges. The forms of writing analyzed—novellas, short stories, and crafted memoirs—occupy a betwixt and between world of fiction and real lives. Jing-Jing Lee's two short...

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... of the pharmakon (“drug,” “medicine,” “remedy,” “poison”), the chapter argues against the critical desire for remedies that do no harm. The efforts to find a purely beneficial remedy (or even simply a better, less harmful remedy) usually suppose that a reliable, clear distinction between poison and cure...

... Berlant's day-to-day experiences in diary-like format albeit with the characteristic insights and turns of phrase that illuminate the ways that affect shapes encounters and episodes within and beyond the ordinary. frankness life/death poison alter worlds writing ...