For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

ER! – Cuneus (the scene at the bottom of the estuary or lake
or tarn or whatever – glimpsed from the brink of drowning),
Brodmann areas 17 (V1, primary visual cortex), 18, 19 (two of
which are obscured in the print I have – the other seemingly a
kind of neural machete – hacking out a path. Rusted, no doubt),
Temporal lobe (Famous, The), Cortex (derogatory, if you ask
me), Primary auditory cortex (A1), A2 (Two), Inferior temporal
cortex (an attempt – unsuccessful – to seduce X. Clumsy,
in retrospect), Posterior inferior temporal cortex (certain rules
concerning dissection. Or vivisection), Gyrus (simply), Superior
temporal gyrus (accusations! Accusations!), Middle temporal
gyrus (some would say this were a too-late suppression of the
truth), Inferior temporal gyrus (controversy), Fusiform gyrus
(provocation – fingered), Parahippocampal gyrus (the story of
voodoo in rural France), Brodmann areas: 9, 20, 21, 22, 27, 34,
35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42 – all of which concerned with governing
the musculature of those various sphincters dotted at strategic
points about the body), Insular cortex (Scenes of sexual abandon
suggest lust as the cause of humanity’s downfall), Cingulate
cortex (resplendent in shocking pink!), Subgenual area 25 (the
garden), Anterior cingulate (Malade au Coeur), Posterior cingulate
(Amici del Cuore), Retrosplenial cortex (resplendent in
sacking, for fuck’s sake!), Indusium griseum (Born in Berlin, of
all places), Brodmann areas 23, 24 (a necessary retardation); 26,
29, 30 (retrosplenial areas to augment reality); 31, 32 (a counter
movement). But what sort of creature are you?