The Banana Peel Project

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 […]

 
[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 […]

The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger.  It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity.  For that future world and that within it which will have put into question the values of sign, word, and writing, for […]