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miasma
[mī·az′mə] Etymology: Gk, miainein, defilement an unwholesome, polluted atmosphere or environment, such as a marsh or swamp containing rotting organic matter. Also called miasm [mī′əzəm] . miasma noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; the basis for an early concept of the origin of epidemics. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Works such as the Mount Rushmore-esque on the rocks/Me, 2007-2008, show off the lower-case-r romantic drawing for which Bell is known--washy, miasmic swirls trace wafer-thin figures, dissolving symbols seemingly culled from the likes of Ovid and the Brothers Grimm--alongside ECCE HOMO, 2007, a vitrine containing four large sticks and a diminutive carving of an arm, all bundled together like firewood. In such moments inhere the contradictory politics of passing, the kind of miasmic effect that prompts Eve Sedgwick to conclude that performance itself is always just "kinda subversive, kinda hegemonic" (qtd. His book clearly describes a life in what he calls "the miasmic fog that kept the country in darkness during the Apartheid years": the fog of ideology that made it possible for white South Africans to avoid recognizing their brutal exploitation and oppression of the country's black population. |
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