“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 …
Patterns: mind
A drug user is not a zombie
How can we talk about a resilient, flexible, self-reflexive self without appealing to some natural, fundamental subject? How can we understand the thinking, agentive, self-aware subject whose boundaries are themselves continuously negotiated with other agents? The self that is articulated in and through engagement with drugs—whether by taking them or simply by talking about them—is …
Resistance, strategy, and personal technologies
Where there is power, there is resistance. Is this a death sentence for resistance, an eternal guarantee for power, or something else entirely? Attacks on the idea that power and resistance always go together seem to have come from all sides. There are those who have attacked the histories that claim to show the ability …
