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Abstract
While traditionally regarded as one of the many liminal nocturnal spaces within the often-labyrinthine complexes of contemporary hospitals, the corridor is not inscribed with specific activities, rules of conduct or dress codes. Instead, particularly at night they become in-between places of ambiguity and ambivalence. As a family member of an ICU patient, frequently you are asked to step outside while medical staff undertake some procedure. This can occur at any time of the night. In the early hours after midnight the family can be left to wander the darkened corridors, led on by the glow of the vending machines all safely locked inside the building and yet out of ICU. This experience of liminal nocturnal temporality by going beyond that expected of being in transition, can linger to become semi-permanent, and therefore alter the perception of the transition from life to death so that it may feel suspended, stalled, or never-ending.
Résumé
Bien que traditionnellement considéré comme l’un des nombreux espaces nocturnes liminaux au sein des complexes souvent labyrinthiques des hôpitaux contemporains, le couloir n’est pas assigné à des activités spécifiques, des règles de conduite ou des codes vestimentaires. Au lieu de cela, en particulier la nuit, ils deviennent des lieux intermédiaires d’ambiguïté et d’ambivalence. En tant que membre de la famille d’un patient des soins intensifs, on vous demande souvent de sortir pendant que le personnel médical entreprend une procédure. Cela peut arriver à n’importe quelle heure de la nuit. Dans les premières heures après minuit, la famille peut être laissée à errer dans les couloirs sombres, guidée par la lueur des distributeurs automatiques, tous enfermés et en toute sécurité à l’intérieur du bâtiment bien que pourtant hors de l’USI. Cette expérience de la temporalité nocturne liminale, en dépassant ce que l’on attend d’être en transition, peut s’attarder pour devenir semi-permanente, et donc altérer la perception de la transition de la vie à la mort pour qu’elle puisse sembler suspendue, bloquée ou sans fin.
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