The Banana Peel Project

Figurations are “partial visions” which “provide a sufficiently open space into which to project the possibility of as yet unchartable change” (Bammer). Figurations are “performative images that can be inhabited” (Haraway).  They serve a purpose, and they are playful.
Synchronicity is co-happening, co-occurrence, co-articulation, co-operation.  Synchronicity is “temporally significant […]

In recent months, The Banana Peel Project has increasingly focused on the way the body and its illnesses are understood in contemporary technocultures.  This turn reflects not only my own growing appreciation for the power and pervasiveness of modern biomedicine, but also the increasing attention being paid to the biological sciences in popular culture.  News […]

I think I may have finally come up with a single-sentence summary of Marx’s theory of history.  I wonder how many thoughts, calories, and stress-units I’ve invested in producing this sentence.  In neural firings per line, I bet this is one of the most valuable sentences I’ve ever seen.
Modes of production derived from earlier forms […]