She names capitalism’s carcinogenosphere. As Jennifer Szalai says of Boyer’s treatment of the pink ribbon, that ubiquitous emblem of breast cancer awareness: ‘Anne Boyer doesn’t just pull it loose, unfastening its dainty loop she feeds it through a shredder and lights it on fire, incinerating its remains.’īoyer is brilliant on the economics of cancer and the environmental costs of its cures. There’s not a cliché in sight, all truisms and euphemisms are exploded. The North American subtitle makes clear the vast reach of Boyer’s concerns: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care. The chemo will be devastating, its side effects horrendous: it may kill her even as it’s her only chance at life.īoyer chooses her chance at life – and is catapulted into a hinterland of medical nightmares, a broken healthcare system, broken political economy, misogyny and suffering physical, psychological, social and economic.Īt times The Undying is breathtakingly beautiful at others, it’s excruciating as Boyer probes the personal suffering as well as the science, history, metaphors, politics, sociology, economics and writers of breast cancer – and of illness and pain more generally. She tells Boyer it is her only chance of living. She must fight to be allowed to undergo the most extreme form of chemotherapy, recommended in frank words by the second specialist she consults. Aged 41, Boyer was diagnosed with advanced triple negative breast cancer, one of the deadliest kinds. Part memoir part history part philosophy part poem part meditation on writing and language, The Undying is about the extremity of illness and suffering. In this and many other ways, it’s a perfect text for pandemic 2020: it forces you to slow down, to be deeply attentive and considerate, and, in particular, it brings home the fierce reality of a body in pain – and of the life-saving and life-destroying powers of the modern medical and pharmaceutical industries, their ruthless, violent, cost-minimising service to late capitalism in this age of digital media, data and screens. That this book is impossible to race through is one of its great virtues. It’s so loaded with … meaning? Undoing of meaning? Boyer is a poet and her prose is dense and resonant as poetry. I read it so slowly: it took me from early April until the end of June. Rather than try and recreate the wheel and not do it at as well as others already have.Anne Boyer’s The Undying is one of the most extraordinary books I’ve ever read. Look through the current portraits and find one that is shaped similarly and moves similarly to how you want yours to move and use that mesh for your portraits. Then use existing meshes from Stellaris to get the animation. The basic process is to use Stable Diffusion with OpenPose to get the texture in the correct pose. Some people have asked for a tutorial on how to do these: Also fixed an issue where AI would only ever use the default room.Ģ/19: Created a separate achievement friendly version of this mod that does not change the checksum, but does replace one of the humanoid portraits One vampire themed room with a sarcophagus.Īn "undead" name list that is essentially just Romanian names.Ģ/7: Added species localisation so should no longer see things such as "Undying_insult_01."Ģ/13: Per request have made the armored husks available on their own as machines Ģ/15: Fixed an issue with some names showing up with ? in the name list. They are intended to not be game breaking, but may or may not be balanced. Smaller set of animated armored warriors I use as the prepatent species.Ī couple optional species traits called undead and familiar (not available to AI). All clothes and hair attached to base bodies. Optional vampire paragon and civicĪnimated vampire-themed portraits.
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