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fold of a becoming inside of the first outside, and so forth.” “Hence, by
reason of this folding, here are the interiority-effects of a structure made up of
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nothing but surfaces and outsides without insides.”
Being bodily here materializes in the in-between of interaction, but
in a way that does not imply the immediate presence of a body. As Haraway
argues, objects, be they bodies, affects, memories, or discourses, are
boundary projects productive of, not just produced by, meanings, subjects,
places, temporalities - the implicit body is a body that is emergent; a locus of
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exchange, force and semiosis.

Notes

1
L Manovich, ‘The Poetics of Augmented Space’ in A Everett and J
Caldwell (eds), New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality,
Routledge, New York and London, 2002
<http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/augmented_space.doc> (viewed 5 July,
2005).
2
DJ Bolter and D Gromala, Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design,
Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, MIT Press, Cambridge and
London, 2003, p. 118.
3
RA Stone, ‘Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?’ in M Benedikt (ed),
Cyberspace: First Steps, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1991, np.
<http://www.molodiez.org/net/real_body2.html> (viewed 5 July, 2005). Pre-
eminent amongst these other scholars is Katherine Hayles, in for example,
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and
Informatics, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999.
4
Bolter and Gromala, p. 119.
5
Ibid.
6
Ibid, p. 120.
7
T Lenoir, ‘Foreword’ in New Philosophy for New Media, by MBN Hansen,
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004, p. XIII.
8
W Mitchell, The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic
Age, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992, p. 57, quoted in Lenoir, New
Philosophy for New Media, p. XIV.
9
V Sobchack, Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film, Ungar
Press, New York, 1987, in Stone, np.
10
Lenoir in Hansen, pp. XVII-XVIII. Here, Lenoir uses a quote from
Friedlich Kittler’s Gramophone, Film Typewriter (Stanford University Press,
Stanford, 1999), and poses Hansen and Kittler as polar opposites. While the