Olivia Laing on the problems of inhabiting a body
Olivia Laing, Everybody (2021)Courtesy of Picador It’s quite a big place to start, but how can we reckon with the problem of existing inside a body? Olivia Laing: Well, that's the question that made me write the book. I feel like that question has always been quite live to me. The body is the site of so many different experiences. Sometimes we’re happily and delightful embodied and other times, it feels like we're sort of stuck in this prison. And the body has needs, and those needs can be turned against us. The body is a site of violence and, often, it’s a site of violence because of...
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