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Acknowledgments Particular thanks to N. Katherine Hayles for her inspiration and her support of this book and to Joan Catapano, Steve Shaviro, and Susan Squier for their generous readings of the manuscript; to Samuel Delany for responding to my questions about the sources of “The Star Pit”; to Ed Cohen for many discussions (out of which came the term antirealistnaturalism); to Carlos Simmerling and Hugh Sansom for the cover illustration and design; to Srikanth Mallavarapu for pointing me to Kuhn on Aristotle; and to Jay McRoy for recommending BloodMusic. Special thanks to Paul Adams for starting the discussions among biologists and humanists (at SUNY–Stony Brook in 1997) that helped to inspire this book. For a variety of discrete advice , friendship, support, and inspiration along the way, thanks first of all to Cliff Siskin—and to Judith Butler, Bruno Clarke, Leonard Cohen, Nicolas Crook, George Cunningham, Judith Friedman, Judith Halberstam, Robert Harvey, Ann Kaplan, David Kazanjian, Dierdre Lynch, Peter Manning, Nick Mirzoeff,Josie Saldana,Jennifer Savran,Lang Walsh, Liam Walsh,and Kathleen Wilson—and to Alex Chasin and finally to Iona Man-Cheong, beyond all acknowledgments, for their love and courage. Parts of chapters 13 and 14 are revised from my essay “Defrosting: Self/ Poetry/Power/Science,” which appeared in Poetics/Politics, edited byAmitava Kumar (NewYork: St.Martin’s,1999).Scattered parts of chapters 15 and 17 are revised from my essays “The No-Trump Bid on Romanticism and Gender,” in RomanticismandGender, edited by Anne Janowitz,EssaysandStudies annual volume (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: 1998), and “Indiscretions: Of Bodies, Genders, and Technologies,” in ProcessedLives, edited by Jennifer Terry and Melodie Calvert (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). 00.FM.i-xiv_Livi.indd13 9/27/053:05:03PM 00.FM.i-xiv_Livi.indd14 9/27/053:05:03PM ...