The word is now a virusWilliam S. Burroughs, Word Virus (1998:208) Ideology is a virus.Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992: 327) "It's the words," he said shyly. "They're virulent."Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden (1990: 58) 'Belief', we are…
. . . the problems of knowing what is the subject of the State, of war, etc., are exactly of the same type as the problems of knowing what is…
A computer can be seen as an instrument on which many types and layers of writings have occurred. For example, many of us think of writing text on the computer,…
This investigation is intended to bring to light some reasons for connecting the notion of artificial life to certain kinds of interpretation of transcendental philosophy. Since the conception of a…
SINCE THE FIRST STRIKING INTO LIFE OF A CELL THE ENERGY OF THAT CELL ACCUMULATED. THIS ACCUMULATED ENERGY BECAME THROUGH EONS AN ANCIENT AND IMMORTAL INTELLIGENCE WHICH ASSUMED AS MANY…
In the first of his dialogues with Claire Parnet, Gilles Deleuze describes what he calls the 'pick-me-up' or 'pick-up' procedure, 'a procedure of drawing lots or a single chance which…
Culture Machine 3 is open. Being open to the viral has perhaps from the outset been the style of our attempt to open up the work of cultural studies to…
London: Duke University Press. ISBN: 0-8223-2919-0. Simon Wortham Paul Bowman's review in general seems to me an earnest, thoroughly engaged and entirely even-handed treatment of my book. Much of what…
Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0- 7190 5629-2 Paul Bowman Simon Wortham's Rethinking the University: Leverage and Deconstruction is a novel and explicitly interdisciplinary examination of some of the political questions of…
New York and London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-91914-2 Ben Knights For the British participant, one of the most exciting strands within the continued transmutations of Cultural Studies over the past ten…