La Borde (Clinic)

I, Little asylum

by Guattari, Emmanuelle, Whitney Biennial, New York, N.Y.)

fromSemiotext(e) Whitney series

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Founded in 1951 and renowned in the world of psychiatry, the experimental psychiatric clinic of La Borde sought to break with the traditional internment of the mentally ill and to have them participate in the material organization of collective life. The clinic owed much of its …