Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age

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i n d e x Abbas, Ackbar, 180, 182 Adams, Carrie Olivia, 129 addiction, to desire, xii advertising contact in, 223n18 identity and, 116, 133 photography in, 117–18 pornography as, 116–17, 225n9 as spectacle, 127–28 victim of, 40 Aesthetics of Excess, The (Weiss), 129 After Life (Koreeda), 46, 49–50 After the Orgy (Pettman), xvi Afterwords (Brockman), 53, 148 Agacinski, Sylvia, 141, 143 Against Love (Kipnis), 213n17 ‘‘Against the Doxa: Politics of Immanence and Becoming-Minoritarian’’ (Marrati ), 228n21 Against the Machine (Fox), 164 Agamben, Giorgio, xviii, 2, 6–7, 8, 12, 14, 33, 41, 53, 54, 55, 66–67, 95, 97–98, 103, 104, 105, 114, 117, 124, 127, 141, 148–53, 155, 163, 178, 181, 186–87, 191, 192–93, 197, 199, 200, 201, 203, 211n8, 216n19, 217n28, 222n13, 223n18, 224n26, 228n23, 232n12. See also coming community; whateverbeing agapē, xiv, 19 ‘‘Age of the World Picture, The’’ (Heidegger ), 129 AIDS. See auto-immune deficiency syndrome 251 Aleph, The (Borges), 92 alienation, xvi, 34, 70, 72, 73, 77, 103, 170 Allen, Robert C., 225n6 All Tomorrow’s Parties (Gibson), 190 alterity, ethics of, xvi, 18, 69, 85, 107, 133, 151, 227n14 Althusser, Louis, 40 American Psycho (Ellis), 77 Anarchist, The (Broch), xi Anderson, Benedict, 139 Antelme, 157, 229n29 apartheid, 163–64 Aphex Twin syndrome, 10, 210n9 Archimedean point, 4, 135–36, 192 Aristophanes, 23–24, 25, 212nn6–7 Aristotle, 138, 217n28 Armstrong, Karen, 210n7 art erotic versus pornographic, 110, 113, 225n4 as machine, 138, 227n8 passive experience in, 147 philosophy and, 2 as policed, 110 artifice, 122, 160, 196, 225n9, 232n12 Artificial Intelligence: AI, 174 assimilationism, 202 assumptions, as cultural, xix, 14–15, 19– 20, 172, 201, 204–5 attraction, as visual, xiv Atwood, Margaret, 131–32 Aufhebung, 212n6 Augé, Marc, 71, 118 252 Index Auster, Paul, 36 Australian Censorship Board, 113 auto-immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), 111 automatism, 7, 29, 70–71, 93, 137 autonomy, illusion of, 39–40 avatars, digital, 14, 101, 103–4, 232n6 Ayerza, Josefina, 186 Badiou, Alain, 198 Bailey, Cameron, 227n14 Baker, Josephine, 223n19 Baker, Nicholson, 42 Bakhtin, Mikhail M., 40, 139, 221n3, 229n2 Ballard, J. G., 13, 70–75, 82, 218n2, 219nn4–5 Baring, Frances, 71 Barthes, Roland, xix, 13, 20, 21, 27, 28, 30, 43, 132–33, 183 Barzun, Jacques, 164 Bataille, Georges, xvii, 23–24, 52, 131, 179, 213n19 Baudelaire, Charles, 179, 180 Baudrillard, Jean, 81–82, 111, 113–14, 126–27, 210n8, 218n2, 222n16 Bauman, Zygmunt, xii, 78, 81–82, 181 BBC. See British Broadcasting Corporation beauty, xiv–xv, 2, 11, 34–36, 45, 60–61, 63, 98, 111–12, 115, 129, 133, 174, 184–86, 214n6 Beck, Ulrich, 201 Becker, Dana, 219n7 Becker, Scott, 188 being authenticity of, 187, 207 as co-appearing, 224n28 as communication, 140 genera of, 106 modernity and, 98 passivity of, 156 as plurality, 142–43 replication of, 218n35 shame between man and, 98 Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 159 being-in-the-world, xiii, xv–xvi, xx, 2, 4, 79, 106, 209n1, 210n3 Being John Malkovich (Jonze), 9–10, 12, 105, 211n8 Being singular plural, 97, 106, 142–43, 145–46, 178, 191, 193 Being Singular Plural (Nancy), 142, 191 being-with-others, 234n29 belonging, longing and, xii, 154–55 Bend Sinister (Nabokov), 131 Benjamin, Walter, 3, 19, 43, 174, 179, 214n2 Bentham, Jeremy, 118 Benvie, Robert, 108 Bergman, Ingmar, 223n18 Bergson, Henri-Louis, xix, 43, 44–45, 47–48, 88, 96–97, 183, 214n4, 214n8 Berman, David, 233n17 Bersani, Leo, 229n25 bioVirtual, 102 Bitter Moon (Polanski), 121 ‘‘Black or White’’ (Jackson), 103 Blade Runner (Scott), 92, 119, 174, 221n9 Blake, Andrew, 110–12, 113, 116–18 Blanchot, Maurice, 2, 151, 201, 204, 210n5 Blonsky, Marshall, 92 Body-without-Fluids, 111 Body-without-Organs (BwO), 67, 125, 218n33 Borges, Jorge Luis, 92 Borromean knot, 37 Botton, Alain de, 129–30 Bourdieu, 164 Bovaryism, 28 Bracey, Gary, 101–2 Brain Story: The Mind’s Eye (TV), 89, 222n10 branding, 127–28 Bright, Susie, 111–12 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 191 Broch, Hermann, xi, 6, 180 Brockman, John, 53, 148, 172–73, 174 Brown, Sam, 228n18 BSE, as pathogen, xii Bullet Time, 42–43, 45, 46, 49, 51, 213n1 Bunker mentality, 34, 224n27 Index 253 Burgess, Anthony, xiii–xiv, 74 Burroughs, William, 187, 208, 235n11 Butler, Judith, 193, 234n25 BwO. See Body-without-Organs Cadava, E., 227n11 Cahiers du Cinéma, 225n7 Canticle for Leibowitz, A, 230n5 Cantonal...