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| | Under Your Skin: Polysemy, AIDS, and the Hypodermic Needle |
 | | Needles, spawned by the medical industry and later codified as objects of vice and instruments of destructive identity through their connection to drug use, resist categorization as life saving implements in the struggle to overcome AIDS infection and HIV spread. |
 | | Hypodermic needles are interesting because they come to function as the gatekeepers of the human body for a medicine subservient to its spatial boundaries, and a developing medical practice which looks to insert itself inside the body, under the skin, in order to localize the illness. |
 | | Yet, in the landscape of addiction, needles are instruments for the corrosion of the civilized body, and they metamorphose the contours of the injected body into a space on which morality is wasted, where there is no high ground for the imperatives of moral citizenship. |
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