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Argazkia: Jokin Azpiazu

The first time it was in Barrika, when he couldn't understand what his friends were saying around the beach. The words coming out of his mouths made no sense to Nagore. It was as if I was out of reality. His friends' lips moved and uttered the sounds, but they made him incomprehensible. This is how Nagore Gartzia Fernández begins (Sopela, 1984) his book Collapse (The Hedonists, 2021).

Presentation of the book 'Collapse'
WHEN: 1 March
WHERE: Library Louise
Michel (Bilbao)

The Pixies group sang “your feet in heaven and head on earth” Where is my mind? in the song. It felt like Nagore, like his world, even if it was in small intervals, didn't make sense. This confusion worsened, especially when this event became repetitive. So he started a journey that seemed endless. He went from one consultation to another, accumulating tests and faces of different doctors hoping to get a correct diagnosis.

Nagore is encouraged to tell her story, first in writing and then with presentations to the public in the company of anthropologist Mari Luz Esteban. William S. American writer Burroughs stated that language is an alien virus and that the only remedy to get rid of the disease it produces is to write, that we would only be getting the word out of the body and making it correlate. Nagore seems to have followed Burroughs' recommendation. His research and ethnographic character has been linked to his passion for writing coming from a young age to write not only about his illness, but also about his hard journey.

The symptoms were clear: I lost the ability to understand the words in small intervals of time, from time to time, but more and more frequently. He had to visit the entire health system until he had a precise diagnosis: his illness was the result of a type of epilepsy. But in Nagore's story, as in all accounts, the important thing is not the objective, in this case the diagnosis, but the path. The writer has described and analyzed the impact of biopolitics on us from a personal point of view. Its objective is the violence and discipline of medicine and medicines, among others. His personal collapse is not the only one behind the title of the book, as the sopelan has talked about the collapse of the health system, the collapse of late capitalism and its influence on our health, the collapse of the cities, which have become irresistible until the expulsion of the population. Nagore also has his friends present in his story, and he often talks about those who have supported and helped him in fear and ignorance. Surrounding yourself with a powerful network of protection and community is more important than ever in times of collapse.


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