The Banana Peel Project

“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 […]

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 […]

Hypostatization is that trick of the mind which transforms the complex into the simple, the local into the universal, and the temporary into the eternal.  What is lost in this translation?  Is anything saved?
Addiction, the movement from an instrumental practice to an uncontrollable compulsion.
Refusal, a strategic and localized resistance that has become a principle of […]