The Banana Peel Project

“Who’s watching your drink? Let your hair down, not your guard.” In bright pink with big black block lettering, of course.
“Enjoy your night.  Know your limits.  Zero tolerance towards violence.”
A textual exhibition of the physiology of alcohol (and its rapacious others).  A drug defines its own textuality, its own social limits, its own legal presence […]

“would you just stop essentializing zombies to their bodily functions, for once?”
the virus:
human immunodeficiency virus, seeds of autoimmunity
a parasite, an Other within
the first step towards a body without organs
the subject:
an evacuated self, experiencing pleasure without truth
production of desire, metastasis of addiction: a high anxiety
fearing the other, a galvanizing force
in defense of dissolution in the politics […]

 
[What follows is a work in progress.  More to come.]
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom has a rather amazing article in November’s The Atlantic magazine discussing how recent research suggests that we may not be alone in our brains.  Instead, he suggests that “each of us is a community of competing selves, with the happiness of one […]