Author Archives: airigoyen
Margaret Cavendish’s Vital Echoes
For my short presentation today, I want to add to our “Breathworks” a poem from Margaret Cavendish’s 1653 assemblage of Poems and Fancies, titled “Of Sound and Eccho” (1664...
MIASMA
The concept of miasma has, as an ideological construct, spread like a kind of miasma itself, playing a crucial and problematic role in the realms of moral psychology, medical...
Revolting against the Regime of Fluency in Jordan Scott’s “Valsalvas”
On October 18th, 2020, Lara Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and campaign advisor, did a CNN interview in which she was asked to defend an instance from earlier in the...