The Banana Peel Project

At least, if that means anything any more.  If everything’s political, nothing is.
Except that’s wrong.  “Politics” is not a uniform field.  It is a set of always uneven relations, unable to be reduced to a mere adjective.  Something can not be “more” or “less” political, just as something can not be “more” or “less” real, […]

Pharmaceutical interventions, prescribed or illicit, do much more than reorganize our somatic selves.  Yes, they shuffle the sensorium and re-engineer the molecular body.  But these effects are only part of the profound, and even violent, transformation of the somatic self made visible by the emergence of what Nikolas Rose has called the “neurochemical self.”  Drugs […]

Pharmacological interventions, drugs, neurochemical prostheses.  For a cure or for fun, these are our most intimate technologies.  They rearrange our spaces at the level of the senses, the body, and the flesh.  The effect–the thought, the handshake, the message–becomes something different, something that moves differently across space and time, creating a new unique extension, a […]