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<http://nathanielstern.com/works/interactive/step-inside.html> (viewed July
5, 2005). Until again noted, the following quotations are all my own text
from this site.
99
Paraphrased from N Ridgway, ‘Between Text and Flesh,’ New York Arts
Magazine, September-October, 2006.
100
Massumi, Parables for The Virtual, p. 30.
101
Nathaniel Stern quoted in R Borland, ‘Nathaniel Stern,’ Artthrob Artbio,
2006 <http://www.artthrob.co.za/06feb/artbio.html> (viewed April 10, 2006).
Originally sent in an email from Stern to Borland when the latter was writing
this article, Stern is speaking to/with Hansen, who initially said, “the body
becomes the site of a potential resistance to-or more exactly, a potential
counterinvestment alongside of-the automation of vision” (Hansen, New
Philosophy for New Media, pp. 6-7).
102
Massumi, Parables for the Virtual, p. 37.
103
Ibid, pp. 34-5.
104
Ibid.
105
Ibid, p. 14.
106
In her examination of Hagen cosmology - in which persons are understood
to be entities with relations integral to them - what is seen as a “body” is what
is brought forth as an outcome of relations. Here, persons are “fractally
realized” rather than essentially determined (M Strathern, ‘The Limits of
Auto-anthropology,’ in A Jackson (ed), Anthropology at Home, Tavistock,
London, 1995, p. 250.
107
Ibid, p. 243.
108
Ibid.
109
Massumi, Parables for the Virtual, p. 4.
110
Ibid, p. 5. Rosi Braidotti reads Deleuze and Nietzsche from a feminist
perspective to explore embodiment as emergent, rhizomatic, inter-related, as
an interface of forces. Here affectivity is pre-discursive - not as a “before”
but as an unthought/non-thought within thought (See Nomadic Subjects:
Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory,
Columbia University Press, New York, 1994). In thinking through the a
priori and Nietzsche, Judith Butler asks which bodies come to matter and
why. She reminds us of the importance of power (regulatory norms and
matrices of intelligibility) and that materialization takes place: it is a series of
practices that produces, over time, the effects of insides and outsides
(boundaries, surfaces and depths). In her analyses, she provides a very cogent
and provocative critique of constructionism and its instantiation of an a priori
body: the tabula rasa body biological material that is inscribed by the social,
cultural, political etc. (See Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of
Identity, Routledge, New York, 1989).