from beginning to end The Pain Jour...

from beginning to end The Pain Journal, an account of the year prior to his death from cystic fibrosis upon January 6, 1996, the writer and performance artist knock Flanagan reflects on his intimate and sometimes revolutionary relationship with the computers in succession which he composes his diary. For Flanagan, whose brutally direct art uses a range of recording and display devices to explore the aesthetics of the suffering dead body the computer occupies a middle position between companion and tool, a switch-point linking his work as artist and diarist to his family, his circle of devot friends, his