A Metaphor for AIDS is a piece of digital artwork by Walter Neal which was uploaded on April 6th, 2018.
A Metaphor for AIDS
'A Metaphor For AIds' is based on 'AIDS and Its Metaphors' a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as... more
by Walter Neal
Title
A Metaphor for AIDS
Artist
Walter Neal
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Digital Art
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'A Metaphor For AIds' is based on 'AIDS and Its Metaphors' a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors attributed to cancer to the AIDS crisis. Sontag explores how attitudes to disease are formed in society, and attempts to deconstruct them.
'Illness as Metaphor' was a response to Sontag’s experiences as a cancer patient, as she noticed that the cultural myths surrounding cancer negatively impacted her as a patient. She finds that, a decade later, cancer is no longer swathed in secrecy and shame, but has been replaced by AIDS as the disease most demonized by society. She finds that the metaphors that we associate with disease contribute not only to stigmatizing the disease, but also stigmatizing those who are ill. She believes that the distractions of metaphors and myths ultimately cause more fatalities from this disease.
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April 6th, 2018
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