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dc.contributor.authorFletcher, Erica
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-07T19:22:33Z
dc.date.available2020-05-07T19:22:33Z
dc.date.issued2013-09-14
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/30328
dc.descriptionDigital Humanities Forum: Return to the Material. University of Kansas. September 14, 2013: http://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2013

Erica Fletcher is at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Institute for the Medical Humanities.
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dc.description.abstractAs visual technologies become increasingly ubiquitous and networked, server websites such as YouTube provide a space to share vlogs (video blogs) online, to suggest related videos for viewers, and to help in/form virtual communities, including communities of illness. Within this space, vlogs of schizophrenia have emerged in recent years and offer those who claim to suffer from this mental illness a forum to share their lifeworlds with others. This paper theorizes the metaphysics of “being” within this transitional, dialogical state of illness that unfolds through multiple (analog, digital, virtual, networked) spheres. Using the example of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia who extends her self-expression of illness online through YouTube, I will explore this articulation of unfolding through Brian Massumi’s theorization of affect, the analog, and the digital. Furthermore, I will use Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri’s theorization of rhizomes and assemblages to describe the social networks that are formed through shared experiences of illness and posit ways in which vlogs speak back to the analog body, affect a body’s way of being in the world and push back at static, categorical definitions of schizophrenia. In this manner, my incorporation of Massumi, Deleuze, and Guattari’s work seeks to reconfigure past binaries such as mind/body, subject/object, nature/culture, immanence/transcendence, and leads us towards a more vitalistic way of thinking about analog bodies in motion as bleeding, resonating, affective, deeply connected intensities. Through a new language of emergence, fields, incorporeal materiality, rhizomes, assemblages, planes, virtuality, and becomings, vlogs on YouTube may foster a creativity, experimentation, and inventiveness within Western knowledge that deeply transform the sciences’ and the humanities’ understandings of schizophrenia.en_US
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dc.subjectDigitalen_US
dc.subjectHumanitiesen_US
dc.subjectDigital Humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectSchizophreniaen_US
dc.subjectYouTubeen_US
dc.subjectVlogsen_US
dc.subjectCommunities of Illnessen_US
dc.subjectBodiesen_US
dc.titleDis/Assembling Schizophrenia on YouTube: Theorizing Analog Bodies in a Virtual Sphereen_US
dc.typeVideoen_US
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