The Banana Peel Project

The increasing pervasiveness of pharmaceutical interventions in our lived experience (whatever being) demands that we reconfigure how we understand identity, and dramatically increases the stakes involved in such an understanding.

1. We must understand identity as experience or whatever being.  We must be psychonauts or adventurers of our literary and semiotic selves.  Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey.

2. We must understand identity as a series of choices, an array of habit, practice, and performance.  We must be cartographers, revealing paths taken and not taken.  Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze.

3. We must understand identity as a physiological limit, resistance to injury, ecologies of blood and tissue, neurological arrangements.  We must be biologists and recognize the truths as well as the falsehoods revealed by the sciences of the body.  Sigmund Freud, Gregor Mendel, Donna Haraway.