Beyond Messiaen’s Birds is a project that hears everyday dementia care interactions as if they are already music. It asks what happens if we approach dementia care as a found performance, in which our responses… Read More »Beyond Messiaen’s Birds: The post-verbal world of dementia
Challenging the traditional view that sickness opposes health in a definitive binary, this paper explores their entanglements through the concept of “recovery” and argues that experiences of illness continue to affect subjects and their lifeworlds… Read More »Impressed by Illness: Against Recovery as the Absence of Illness
Sensation fiction, a literary genre involving the presence of crimes and mystery within the Victorian domestic setting, was highly popular in the mid-nineteenth century because of its depiction of ‘mad’ characters. Many scholars interested in… Read More »A Literary Perspective on Home Confinement and Mental Disorders