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dnu my words and my syntax. the h~stoncal field which I must read br wntlng on 81 (Drrnda. "Ln Parole Soulllee' 178) By O~IIIII~ up AlDS to the rradtng Dernda proposes, one cont~nuourl) ohrener the fact that the act of rrprrunt~ng AlDS has always already begun Even !he acronym AlDS t Acquwrd lmmunodefircncy Syndrome1 dues not become an r\mt \r!thout ngntticalnar ~ncc II I- own to the rvrnc v!nlcnci'a.; any orhcr word 4% Mvlirln D Omel e~plutnr. 11 aas premature to mahr ~t lthe nam~ng afthr d~rrasr as a r)ndromel ~mmucahlr Both terms. AlDS and SIDA. polntcd e~prrrrly to n ,~,nlron,c. that IS. a conrtellat~on of symptoms canrtltuttng a cl~n~cal cnt~n, but not nn et~olug!cal unt? Applied to the dlwase ~n the stronge!rw senre. the name Is no longer penmen1 The name thur susgrrted a cl~n~cal. not a pathologlc. concept It war chow on order to prejud~e nrnthrr the un~n, of the ryndromds cause nor the un~? of tu phogenentr It war far thtr reawn. moreow. thar ~t kame nrcrsrar! lo imvcnt other apprllaaons to sprcrh some cltnlcal stater m uhnrh the causal Ihnk u~th AIDS *ar suspected ha the dcscnptton dld not com,pond la the official cllnlcal definttlon of AlDS To these forms vanour names wre gtvcn. cnciudtng ARC IAIDS-Related Cornplcxl. LAS (Lymphadenopathy Syndrome). Pre-AIDS. and so fonh The rvtuatton changed rad~cally once tt was demanrtratud that AIDS as a clnn!cal cond!tlon r~.sultcd from the actton of a speeltic vtrur Accordmg to the neu delinetton. AlDS 15 a patholagtc state rmanatlng from lnfectlon w~th the HIV wrus. cxctly lclr tuberculortr Ir a pathologc state rrsultlng from lnfrctlon h\ KocYs hac~llu~ AlDS thur bcamer not so much a syndrome as a rrtrorsral !nfect~our dlware There are latent forms of rubrculortr but no one would thlnk of call~ng them TRC (Tubrrculos~r Related complex) or pretubrrculos~s The formri notton of AlDS Ir no more than a pvnlrular mge of an et$ologtcally dcfinrd dtrrase HIV ~nfectron can manlfert ~wclf ~n a broad apeetrum of ellnlcal rraer, rang\"( from arymptomatle and mlnor formrall the way tooven AlDS (51) As Grmek has shown. the namlng of AlDS left ltwlf open lo cenaln violence provrng that "11 IS ~tmultlneously trm that thnngr come tnto emstener and low rxnrtsnce by belng named" (Dernda. "Edmond Jaber and the Questton of the Book' 70) As poets come to reprexnt the effeeu of ltvlng in the world lrrevacahly changed by AIDS. the cl!n~cal
terms l ky apprapnate elude any rpeclfie r,gntficat~on because the disease 1s cont~nuounly dreonrtructmg Its own lkm!l!ng definltlon The acronym AlDS ~tsclf lacks 51~nlficnt1on ~tse1fkcause"the absence ofa transcendental stp,fiede.rtmdr the domatn and the play of scg~ficat$on tnfinttely"!Dcmdu, W n t l n L . 2 8 0 ) Whdr Dernda prob~dcs useful rtrateglcs for dtscurring hau AIDS' I~m~tlesmrs, eludes r~~m~licat~oo at the Ihngutrts level. h~. also dtrcusser the fact that AlDS could not. as some had thought or hoped 11 \\auld. be confined to the margtnr of soc~et). ldeltnqucney. homarc~ual~ty. drug ndd~cuon). [because1 we are Lclng romcthlnp \rtth~n the raclal bond that wc. mlght stmll want to eonr~drr as destrueanng and drpolcttc~r~ng plyprnrrslon an htrtanc lh~rtoncal't knot or denouement ahteh !s no doubt unlqur In these clrcumrtancer Le lrrnructunng and supposedly repolil~clztng) reacttons are largrl) unforeseeable and entarel) capable of bnngng fanh the uorrt pltttcal \taltncr 1Dernds. "The ?.k!c?r!r c!. Drug An laenleu" 20-l!, Derrlda gestures towards a humvnlstw undrrstand~ng of AIDS \rhtch reflee- the changlng demogaphler ofconng~on At first. AlDS war ptleall? represented ar a gab subjrct. then Its borders $%ere loowned la Include other !drnttt!er that hare been arroclatrd with the dnsrasc (IVdrug abusers. hemoph~lmer. Halttans. and others,. until ~t tinally was represented by ports who dgd not klang to any of the nou ups that have been popularly arroc~nted uxlh the dkrenrr In morl of the parms about .AIDS. the poea eont~nually procla:= :he: ~=;:?1!:zr:! :t^lm ?.:cha:* L?c!!-nrz -:lr !hz! Wlth regards to AIDS, any respanre wh~ch taler dlctatton from the subjects of AIDS or whlch spraks tn thctr name 6 llable to reduce the remaculan of AIDS to I rtngle one couched I" the artoms of ph~laroph~e humanlrm (Dellamora "The Ends of Man AIDS. Kant and Dernda' 132) Whtle Dellamora may wtrh that AlDS eontlnue to be undentwd ~n relatton to the ~~oups h~rroncally asrocsated with the dacase, the reprerentatIan of AlDS ~n poetri and the
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Page 6 and 7: In poet? \mnun ahout AlDS IAcqulrrd
Page 8 and 9: Alirlracl 4elnoaludgcmcne Pap Chapl
Page 10 and 11: Chapter One 1.1) Introduction: How
Page 12 and 13: ofthc cause of AlDS as b~ml. 11 bre
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Page 16 and 17: poacr. and authonN ofmcdleal and rc
Page 18 and 19: slaw narratwcs ofthe nlarteenth cen
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Page 26 and 27: drmogaph~ci ofcantagton wrm to b gc
Page 28 and 29: Amrncan reprewntatlonr of AlDS woul
Page 30 and 31: lhterally made the bod) of the pa)
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Page 40 and 41: notacti\ely ~n\ol\rd I" the fight a
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Page 51 and 52: Gorrrnmrnt and rckrncr are partly r
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Page 55 and 56: These ramr myths of admtnty frame t
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Page 59 and 60: Laughter replacer hystena when 11 s
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Page 63 and 64: Frrehette I" h~s "Non. Jr Ne Rcgene
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Page 71 and 72: "Sphtnctcr' pro\tdrr the ~ nonal ht
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homore~unlr are pan ofthr rolut~on.
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as a rharedc~pcnee for hoth the eld
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Laswll lmhs homoxxual~g. AIDS. and
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3.1) Introduction Chsplcr Three Whi
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"The rublrctof ~deola@" kn AlDS pac
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Sktn rh~elldr. wparater.and protect
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ma a nosedwe. kam~harc. \+hen the I
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AIDS ~n heterosexual hemophlllacs w
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hrmophlllac~ cr eltmmatcd. then the
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The l ow expresses the fact that th
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AIDS. the unnamed and unmrnt~onablr
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my ass Hen man) faggots are nurrlng
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ar upon !trclfand other dlsearer an
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Hacker confesses how Ltdtneonmetrd
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some cnt~r attempt lo pnvllepe paet
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D~chcv. Wlllram ''The Weather of1 h
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Norbun.. Chnrraphrr "1crr)'r Compln
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Cad\. Jo,enh "lmmcrsnc and Countmmm
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GRIVLL JanZita "V~rlhlc Lerlonl lrn
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Waln?. Slman ''AIDS and rhr Poltt~c
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