Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway

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noTES 145 1. Body drift 1 Wendy Brown, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995). 2 Throughout the manuscript, I refer to N. Katherine Hayles as Katherine Hayles. 3 Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003). 4 Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1999); Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (New York: Routledge, 1993). 5 Judith Butler, Antigone’s Claim: Kinship between Life and Death (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997); Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005); Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004). 6 N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002); Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999); Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital SubjectsandLiteraryTexts (Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,2005). 7 “N. Katherine Hayles in Conversation with Arthur Kroker,” April 26, 2006, http://pactac.net/pactacweb/web-content/videoscroll4. html#3. 8 Ibid. 9 Ibid. 10 Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004). 146 notes 11 The entanglement of Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche as premonitory theorists of power in posthuman culture has been explored in my earlier book, The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism : Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Marx (Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 2004). 12 Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings, ed. and introduced by David Karrell Krell (San Francisco: Harper, 1993), 243. 2. contingencies 1 Butler, Antigone’s Claim, 82. 2 Butler, Psychic Life of Power, 50. 3 Ibid., 50–51. 4 Ibid., 67. 5 Ibid., 130. 6 Ibid., 130–31. 7 Ibid., 97. 8 Ibid., 82. 9 Ibid., 104. 10 Ibid., 105. 11 Ibid., 67. 12 Ibid., 68. 13 Ibid. 14 Ibid., 69. 15 Ibid., 66. 16 Butler, Bodies That Matter, 228. 17 Luce Irigaray, To Be Two (New York: Routledge, 2001), 57. 18 Butler, Bodies That Matter, 235–36. 19 Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. and with an introduction by William Lovitt (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), 48; emphasis added. 20 Butler, Precarious Life, 143. 21 Ibid., 151. notes 147 3. complexities 1 Susan Mapstone, “Non-linear Dynamics: The Swerve of the Atom in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura,” London Consortium: Humanities and Cultural Studies Programme (2004–5): 1–13, http://www.londonconsortium .com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/mapstonestoicsessay .pdf. 2 Ibid., 2. 3 N. Katherine Hayles, Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 3. 4 Ibid., 1. 5 Ibid. 6 Ibid., 4. 7 Ibid., 1–2. 8 Ibid. 9 Ibid., 9. 10 Ibid., 10. 11 Ibid., 8. 12 Ibid. 13 Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, 104. 14 Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer, 243. 15 Ibid., 244. 16 Ibid., 242. 17 Ibid., 243. 18 Ibid., 242. 19 Martin Heidegger, Identity and Difference, trans. and with an introduction by Joan Stambaugh (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 69. 20 Ibid., 34. 21 Ibid., 41. 22 Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer, 19. 23 Heidegger, Identity and Difference, 41. 24 Ibid., 39. 25 Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer, 103. 26 Hayles, Writing Machines, 10. 148 notes 27 Ibid., 15. 28 Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, 244. 29 Ibid., 153. 30 Ibid., 156. 31 Ibid., 286. 32 Ibid., 286–87. 33 Ibid., 288. 4. Hybridities 1 Sylvia Hui, “Hawking: Space Exploration a Necessity,” Associated Press, June 13, 2006, http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/ space/2006-06-13-hawking-humans-space_x.htm. 2 Donna Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (New York: Routledge, 1989), 153. 3 Ibid., 153–54. 4 Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove Press, 1977), 236. 5 Haraway, Primate Visions, 185. 6 Ibid., 233. 7 Ibid. 8 Ibid., 234. 9 Ibid. 10 Ibid., 153–54. 11 Ibid. 12 Ibid. 13 Ibid., 233. 14 Ibid. 15 Ibid. 16 Ibid., 234. 17 For an important discussion of the risks associated with genomics, see Michael Tyshenko and William Leiss, “Life in the Fast Lane: An Introduction to Genomics Risk,” http://www.ctheory.net/articles. aspx?id=443; and William Leiss, “Biotechnology, Religion and the Body,” a seminar...