Psicotepec

Methadone is state-issued drugs for addicts. A chemical fix for a chemical problem. The subject remains absent—now with a prescription. Fighting fire with gasoline. Methadone is the pharmacological solution to a pharmacological problem. One drug to treat addiction to another drug. The logic is impeccable in its circularity: if the problem is chemical, the answer must be chemical. The subject disappears twice: first into heroin, then into its legal substitute. This strategy reveals something...

Suitcase children: abandoned, transported, reunited with strangers who claimed to be parents. The trauma began when they crossed without you. Suitcase children. They were called "suitcase children"—creatures transported between countries according to adult convenience. Abandoned with grandparents while their parents emigrated, reunited years later with strangers who claimed kinship. The child who lost her parents at age two does not recognize the telephone voice a year later: "Who are you?"....

Babel was not punishment—it was the consequence of not tolerating limits. Making home of the limit is the only possible maturity. Making home of the limit. The tower of Babel promised heaven—and produced dispersion. The myth warns: omnipotence is paid for with fragmentation. Whoever builds up to the clouds ends up without ground. The longing for total understanding, for a single language, for fusion without remainder, collapses into multiplied confusion. Babel is not arbitrary punishment...