Week 9: Where it costs

This week

Bench

28 April 2027 What stays out of the exhibit excluding

Slides

Open the deck

Specimens

intoxicado → intoxicated

Intoxicado secondary

Nothing in this lecture is funny, and the register of this course changes here on purpose.

In 1980 a young man arrived unconscious at a Florida hospital. His family used the Spanish word intoxicado, which in that usage means poisoned or made ill by something ingested. It was taken as intoxicated. He was treated for a drug overdose. He had suffered a brain haemorrhage, and he left the hospital quadriplegic.

In 1840 the English and Māori texts of the Treaty of Waitangi did not say the same thing. The English text ceded sovereignty. The Māori text ceded kāwanatanga, and retained rangatiratanga. The disagreement is not settled and is not a curiosity.

Outline#

• intoxicado: a single word, and the chain of decisions after it
• Te Tiriti: two texts, one signature, and a country
• what changes when a specimen has a person still living with the outcome
• collecting, displaying, and the difference