AIDS as an apparatus: lines, tensions and educations between life, death, health and disease ^{1 2 3 4}

Abstract

This essay reflects on the webs and educations that permeate the body through between life, death, health and disease, focusing on AIDS as an apparatus that interweaves and is interwoven by these multiple facets of existence. We explore cartography as a means of research and draw on authors such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Félix Guattari, Suely Rolnik and Néstor Perlongher, first reflecting on the connections and frictions between life, death, health and illness to then focus on the concept of apparatus and on AIDS as one. Lastly, we address the lines, desires, lusts and tensions that permeate lives affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as flight, resistance and minor education.

Keywords HIV/AIDS; apparatus; cartography; body and sexuality; minor education