stop screaming: ideas are the voids of the body … penetrating connexions – self-serving excerpts from Stephen Barber’s The Screaming Body

– Artaud, Portrait de Paule Thévenin, dit ‘ Paule aux ferrets ,’ 24 May, 1947 Paule Thévenin [Artaud’s friend and literary executor]described to me the process of being drawn by Artaud as that of “being skinned alive.” … Artaud … standing up before a table … would scream, hum and invent new vocabularies … The
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