Curse tablet

Eyguieres curse tablet

3D illustration of Gabriel's horn

01Cixous published 'The Laugh of the Medusa' in Signs in 1976; it introduced 'écriture féminine' — writing that flows from the female body — to Anglophone feminism.
02She argued that the Western philosophical tradition had mapped 'activity/passivity, sun/moon, man/woman' as a death sentence built into language itself.
03The essay ends with a direct imperative: 'Write yourself. Your body must be heard.' — an instruction, not an analysis.

North American F-100 Super Sabre dropping napalm in a training exercise

Romans inscribed enemies' names on lead tablets, rolled them tight, drove nails through them, and buried them at tombs or threw them into springs — asking the restless dead to drag the living down.