The skin of the tongue. Then and There of the cruising utopia

Abstract

Abstract The text proposes going back to the questions about the body (skin), the archive and writing. If the bodily experience -the body (skin) as an archive- can be paradoxically individual and situated and, at the same time, singularly collective and precarious, I am interested in looking into how the body (skin) could have been the support of the archive and what are the traces and imprints that make (us) (a) body (skin). The invitation is to ponder over the question “How shall we squint, half-close our eyes, to look at the imprints of a skin archive in written form?”. The aim is to reflect upon the temporary nature in the trio archive-skin-writing together with the complex tapestry of a disjointed, disconnected and misaligned present, polluted by the experiences of the past and the promises of a forthcoming future.

Keywords

• archivo
• cuero
• cuerpo
• utopía queer