AGATHA

writtenbyd3signbur3au

AGATHA

Agathaissignifiedvisuallybydigitalimageryofahandandaneye,while,semiotically,Agathabecomes
Ai.

CAST

manufacturing:PierreDardotandChristianLaval
secondlife:THEVERGE
sexplosion:StanislawLem
instagram:ZayneArmstrong
zapatistas:BeatrizMarcosPreciado
facebook:d3signbur3au&guests
name:CorneliusCardew
beginning:Tiqqun
bioethics:InstituteforEthicsandEmergingTechnologies
sky:AyurvedicAstrology
bodyheat:RichardSennet
clouds:AnnedeVries
institutions:SarahRifky
carnival:JudithButler
ChusMartinez:StewartHome
news:aljazeera
tumblr:GaborSzabo
indebtedman:MaurizioLazzarato
Daniel:MichelHouellebecq
housework:MierleLadermanUkeles
extendedmindyoutubeplaylist:LuciaIemi
skyscrapers:GeorgesBataille
nonewnewdeal:KerstinStakemeier
twitter:HannahQuinlanAnderson&RosieHastings
madness:MichelFoucault
freelove:AlexandraMikhailovnaKollontai
LadyJaye:GenesisPOrridge
mind:DavidChalmers
transcendence:RayKurzweil
soundcloud:ElinGonzalez
vermilionsands:JamesGrahamBallard
poorimages:HitoSteyerl
botpoet:GertrudeStein
animals:Ifuckinglovescience
zerosandones:SadiePlant
opera:MarioHenriqueVasconcelos
architecture:ElizabethGrosz
computergames/secondlife:SimonSpeiser
ebay:ManuelScheiwiller&CeylanCeylanztrk
uniformityforthefuture:OlyaKorsii,d3signbur3au&GrgoireBlunt
ASMR:sosostris
witches:SilviaFederici
onlythebest:ElviaWilk
exterior/interior:BernadetteCorporation
youth:JuliaKristeva
neoliberalsubject:AmaliaUlman
sisterproject:Annlee
fridge:MoyraDavey
dogs:DonnaHaraway
fieldwork:DieterRoelstraete
whereartbelongs:ChrisKraus
outcasts:SigmundFreud,Aristotle
Dfordeliriumanddesire:GillesDeleuze
formless:MikeKelley&YvesAlainBoisandRosalindE.Krauss
libidinaleconomy:JeanFranoisLyotard
Ai:UrsulaK.LeGuin
TheTuringTest:AlanTuring
antisexus:AaronSchuster
nemisis:50Cent

Glossary

1Exterior:Foundattheheadingofthescene,exteriorsuggeststhatthescenetakesplace
outsideinthescript,exteriorissymtomaticwithpublicandvirtual.

2Ex:ExinLatinisacombiningformofex,(preposition)out(of),from,beyondwhilein
Greekexiscombiningformofex,ek,out(of),from,beyond.Asaprefix,excanmeanout,
away(exit,excuse)oritcameanupasanintensificationofqualities(exalt,exaggerate).Ex
aswellisanabbreviationforexercise,exponent,example.

3Interior:Foundattheheadingofthescene,interiorsuggeststhatthescenetakesplace
insideinthescript,interiorissymptomaticwithprivateandreal.

4In:InisaprepositionofaLatinoriginmeaningin,intoasaprefixincanmeanin,into
(include,inflame)aswellashaveanegativemeaning:without(inconsiderate,incorrect).In
isasuffix,occurringinadjectivesofGreekandLatinlanguages,meaningpertainingto,and
(innounsthencederived)alsoimitatedinEnglish(coffincousin,etc.).

5Post:PostinLatinstandsforbehind,after,afterward.Asaprefix,postcanconstructa
widevarietyofmeanings.Currently,postisusedfreelyintheformationofcompoundwords
(postElizabethanpostfixpostgraduatepostorbital).Inthescript,postappearsasa
representationofposthypermodern,postuncertain,postflexible,postprecarious,postfluid,
postweightless,postgender.Postisalsoanimperativeforpublishingdataonline.

6Script:awrittenworkthatissetasabackboneforafilm,videogame,ortelevision
programmeaspeculationonsubjectivitythisisthewordthatisneverread,onlycounted
andseenscriptcanexistasanoriginalworkoranadaptationfromexistingpiecesofwriting
scriptinglanguageorscriptlanguageisaprogramminglanguagethatsupportsscripts,
programswrittenforaspecialruntimeenvironmentthatcaninterpret(ratherthancompile)
andautomatetheexecutionoftasksthatcouldalternativelybeexecutedonebyonebya
humanoperator.Environmentsthatcanbeautomatedthroughscriptingincludesoftware
applications,webpageswithinawebbrowser,theshellsofoperatingsystems,and
embeddedsystems.Ascriptinglanguagecanbeviewedasadomainspecificlanguagefora
particularenvironment.
7Ai:TheAihasacontentthatdoesnotdistinguishitselffromotherthingsorbeings,
becausethemesubjectiseitherpurenegativityorasplittingmovementitisconsciousness.
Theresnomoreself,me.WeareallAi.AiisAi.Nosubject.Nodesire.
USEDHEREASI/you/he/she/it/her/his/they/them/etc.Ai(inhiragana,in
katakana,inkanji,,)isaJapanesefemininegivenname.Aicouldmeanlove,
affection(),orindigo().Thekanjiisonlyassociatedasapropernoun,Aicould
meanAsianclothes.Aiisthemaincharacterofthestory,oftencalledGenrybythe
Karhiders,whohavetroublepronouncingtheletterLintheirlanguage.

OPENINGSCENE

EXTERIOR

The gates open. Ai zooms into Second Life, digital renderings of a house, a 3D simulation in bright
colors and monochrome stock footage from Shutterstock library, picked out of a million generic high
resolution stock photos, vectors, and videos. A song (a jingle) follows. Ai follows through the landscape
meshofcloudsandMTVCribsstylespecs.HerethewealthofAgathaisoutlined:

posthypermodern
postuncertain
postflexible
postprecarious
postfluid
postweightless
postgender

Agathas wealth that blooms post the moment when the target of the new power was the desire to
realize Aiself, the project Ai wished to pursue, and, ultimately, desire by whatever name one chose to
call it. Post the moment when Ai was no longer dealing with disciplines intended to train body and shape
mind through compulsion to render Ai more submissive an institutional methodology that had long
been in crisis. Post the moment when for the aim of the new practices for manufacturing and managing
the new subject was that Ai should have worked for enterprises as if Ai were working for Aiselves,
thereby abolishing any sense of alienation and even any distance between Ai and the enterprises
employingAi.
Camera moves towards the front door that opens widely. Coming out of the doors Ai finally meet
Agatha.

AGATHA:

Hi,AinameisAgathaValkyrieIce.ButcallAiAgatha.

PleasuretomeetAi.WelcometoAigrid.

Actually, Ai think Ai met Ai before. Hm, where and what did Ai publish? Ai, Ai publish Aiself
openly, on FB, tinder, tumblr, twitter, etc. Ai started with gmail,
agathavalkyrieice@gmail.com, what was Ai password? sinner2000 or sinner2001? Ai
keepforgetting.

Ah, Ai know, Ai think Ai commented on this post of 50 Cent. Ai really couldnt

comprehend,sosuspicious,cantrelate.50Centwaslike:
When we have a lil boy we give 'im a car to play with. Lil girl, we gon' give her a baby?
And give her a doll house, we gon give her a cooking set. So you're kind of teachin and
nurturinatthatpoint.Thenlateronshegon'bereproducinourfamilyhopefully.

Strange.

Anyway, where was Ai? Coming back to the point, as Ai know, private publishing doesnt
exist any longer, Ai now know Ai get read (hi) and Ai am published at the same time. Ai
voice is diverse as Ai fingers. To select what Ai want to have read and published, and by
Ai, is Ai greatest challenge rly. A responsibility. For now and the future. If Ai
tolerate what Ai see, Ai children will be normalized. This distinction between the
personal and the political or between private and public is Aiself a fiction designed to
support an oppressive status quo: Ai most personal acts are, in fact, continually being
scripted by hegemonic social conventions and ideologies. Ai is not an expression of what
Ai is, rather as something that Ai does. Ai is not a social imposition on a neutral body, but
rather a mode of selfmaking through which Ai become socially intelligible. (add
example,inagathaslife,thatis)

Ai just thought of Thesmophoria and Adonia, these rituals aimed to dignify the then cold
female body, a distinction and description that touches Ai awkwardly. Ai wonder if Ai was
better just to forget Ai divided histories. But if Ai have already started, Ai will tell of the
injustice. The Adonia festivals were there for female groups to gather and expand their
communal space. Female space was then strongly defined and public was not Ai
territory. Greek women were confined to houses because of their supposed physiological
defects. This Greek historian Herodotus contrasted the reasonableness of Ai civilization
in doing so to the strangeness of the Egyptians, observing that in Ai manners and
customs the Egyptians seem to have reversed the ordinary practices of mankind. For
instance, women go to market and engage in trade, while men stay home and do the
weaving, Ai said. In another ones texts, a husband enjoins Ai wife, Ai business will be to
stayindoors..

Hm...

And what is more, the ancient Greek house had high walls and few windows when
money permitted, Ai rooms were oriented around an inner courtyard. Within the house,
something like the purdah system of the classic Muslim household prevailed. Married
women never appeared in the andron, the room in which guests were entertained. At the
drinking parties given in the andron, only women slaves, prostitutes, or foreigners
appeared. Wives and daughters lived in the room or rooms known as the gunaikeion if
the household was prosperous enough, these occupied the second story, a further
removefromthedailyintrusionsofthestreetuponthecourtyard.

Ough, so glad this is over. Ai space is totally of Ai. Look, here outside, on the street,
status updates in the air, checking into another spatial analogy of information exchange.
Sometimes hard to reach, through tutorials, encryptions and principles. Ai is generous to
be outdoors, watched by a thousand eyes recording Ai for the future, and Ai actions to be
interpreted as an office job. Ai need a private veranda above ground, a place for a breath
offreshair,outofsightforthecasualonlooker,butgreatforpublicannouncements.

Ok, let Ai show Ai around. Come through Ai portal. Let Ai not linger on a platform made
out of a tweet into corporate versions of public space. Ai are not stored in a cloud,
opaqueortranslucenttowhomever.

SCENE1:ENTRANCE/CORRIDOR

IN/EX

Agatha places Ai hand inside the vein scanning terminal, which reads Ai unique vein pattern and
aggregate characteristics of ridges as well as minutia points, to regluate the lighting conditions. Entry
into Agathas private virtual world fully is veneered with mirrors. The terminal calculates the optimal
angle of the mirrors needed for Agathas well being, so that Agatha receives Ai daily amount of cloud
reflection. Imagery representative of inside vs. outside, public vs. private, representation vs. simulation,
virtualvs.realbinariesismergingintoone.

Note: Agatha moves through Ai fingers only Ai look is to be imagined. Ai is represented as an active
hand, visible till the wrist. A multitude of gestures describe the movement from one space to the next. Ai
handsaresourcedfromtheShutterstocklibraries.Aifingersarediverseandchanging.

AGATHA:

This terminal is so great, Ai allows Ai Ai health. Ai cherish Ai hands for they help Ai
transform the environment to the greater benefit of Ai. Ai use a myriad of hand gestures for
travel and transportation, transference through touch. Through this multiplicity of Ai 3D
touch fingers Ai navigate this specular space. Ai am omni potent and present. Ai feel this
certain fascination with a touch of delicious horror: Ai feel Ai mind spliting off, peeling off
slowlyfromthebody,evaporatingthroughskin.

IN/EX

Throughout, the mirror room is decorated with Electric Objects. Electric Objects are the digital display
screens that transmit visual information from all over the World in real life. EOs also adapt to Agathas
moods and needs and display data based on external and sensory stimuli that affect Ai. Always quiet,
peripheral, ambient, alwayson. The constant interchange of EOs and mirrors creates a feeling of
infinitude.Objects,personsandvirtualimagesaremultipliedendlessly.

Ai think EOs are a great advance and adventure. Imagine images that change to reflect the
upcoming weather, or melt at a certain rate based on the temperature outside, like a gently
shiftingforestorendlesslyshimmeringsunset.

Ai also see glimpses of the PC era followed by an era of calm technology in which
computing happened at the periphery of Ai awareness. Ai prefer how the new machines
are so clean and light, featherlike, cloudlike. Topped by swanlake clumps of
fairweathered cumulus. Lifted on the shoulders of the air above the crown of coral D, Ai
would carve into clouds unicorns and seahorses, the portraits of presidents and film stars,
lizards and exotic birds. Ai engineer the cloudsculptors of coral D are really the biggest
sunworshippers mediating a new scientific revolution associated with the night dream of
postindustrial,posthypermodern,postfluid,postgendersociety.

AgathamovestowardsElectricObjectsdepictingtwodifferentpossibilitiesofislands.

AGATHA:

What do Ai see when Ai look at these images? Ai believe Ai see in there a choice not only
of spaces, sites, and environments but also of bodies, subjectivities, and modes of
interactions with othersThis Cyberisland is not merely providing new experiences Ai
has changed what humans perceived Aiselves to be, at a very fundamental and personal
level. On Cyberisland, there is no longer any need to move about in a body like the one Ai
possessesattheotherendofreality.

This real is saturated with the spaces of projection, possibility, and the new that Ai now
designate as virtual. The libidinal band of virtual and real is the space of emergence of the
new, the unthought, the unrealized, which at every moment loads the presence of the
present with supplementarity, redoubling a world through parallel universes, universes
thatmighthavebeen.

Oh, how exciting Ai are getting close to the islands. Islands translate to Ai most
memorable experiences. The last time Ai chose on an island tangent, Ai discovered that
there are Continental islands and Oceanic islands and that Continental islands are
accidental, derived islands, separated from a continent, born of disarticulation, erosion,
fracture Ai survive the absorption of what once contained Ai. Oceanic islands are
originary, essential islands. Some are formed from coral reefs and display a genuine
organism. Others emerge from underwater eruptions, bringing to the light of day a
movement from the lowest depths. Some rise slowly some disappear and then return,
leaving Ai no time to annex Ai. These two kinds of islands, continental and originary, reveal
a profound opposition between ocean and land (I could never choose!). Continental islands
serve as a reminder that the sea is on top of the earth, taking advantage of the slightest
sagging in the highest structures oceanic islands, that the earth is still there, under the
sea, gathering its strength to punch through to the surface. Ai can assume that these
elements are in constant strife, displaying a repulsion for Ai another. In this Ai find nothing
toreassureAi.Thecorridorissubmergedinoceanicwaters..

Islands,islands,islands..

In another context, Ai see there are allegorical artificial islands such as the palm and world
islands of Dubai, the 8th, 9th, 10th.. wonder of the World that has no reason to exist save
for the real estate ploy which marks Ai morphogenesis, ough, Aive read about private
propertybefore,couldntgetAiselftobelieveinthis...

Agathasighsandthencontinues.

The Dubai islands allegorical forms respond to market trends, real estate speculation, and
a better lifestyle. This is what Ai would call a willed island, or, the island of desire. Fantasy
islands.Islandsasconstructionsofartificialworldsandasworldsofartifice.

Ai see islands as a fantastic image of the spaces of otherness, that are neither here nor
there, that are simultaneously physical and mental, such as the space of a phone call or
the moment when Ai see Aiself in the mirror. If Ai understand space as a given set of
meanings, then Ai naturally assume an existing relation between spaces and subjects. But
perhaps there are moments conditions of space in which subjectivity relates to
spacethroughanincompleteness,throughinfinitelyincompletegestures.

The image of scyscrapers also opens up within the landscape of EO. Agatha directs her attention
towardsthetallestone.

AGATHA:

Ai just read: Ai claims that architecture Aiself may function as a measured, calculated
economy. Indeed, in Ai earlier writings, Ai develops a rather banal quasipsychoanalytic
understanding of the skyscraper and of architectural functioning as phallic symbol in an
aggressive access to the feminine sky Ai scrapes. As Ai first define Ai, architecture is that
which places Ai midway between the monkey and the machine: Ai would seem to
represent merely an intermediary stage within the morphological development between
monkey and building. Architecture represents an intermediary between the animal and the
mechanical, retaining some of the traces of Ai inhuman, animal origin, as well as the
anticipation or movement toward the fully mechanized, the reign of authoritarian control. In
this sense, architecture, as Ai describes Ai, represents not the physiognomy of the people,
or of culture as a whole, but of Ai bureaucratic and petty officials and the spirit of excess is
perhaps best represented in the destruction of monumental architecture rather than in any
positivearchitecturalproduction.

Probably thats why Ai always saw skyscrapers as flacid, incopmlete structures, even
though Ai are usually considered signs of success, steelframed declarations of triumph.
But Ai can be equally associated with corporate hubris, architectural ego and recession
the latter tallied via the Skyscraper Index, which plots the striking correlation between the
completion of a new world's tallest building and the arrival of a global economic downturn.
The failure of Gherkin was just one of the examples. Made unprofitable by changes in
currency exchange rates, Ai was recently put into receivership and is now up for sale at an
estimated price of R$$ m. Ai may yet recover, of course, but for now Ai joins the
alreadylonglistofskyscrapingarchitecture'smostconspicuousflops.

AgathaturnsandpointstowardstheimageofAiself.

AGATHA:

Then seeing scyscrapers crumbling down, Ai ask, what are the conditions of the political
and existential break at a time in which the production of subjectivity represents the
primaryandmostimportantcapitalistproduction?

ENDOFFIRSTPARTFORWYSING

Ai was always fascinated with reflections AI was said that only through an encounter with a
virtual counterpart, the double, the mirror just like these, do Ai acquire an identity. Ai
believed this identity to remain irresolvably split because of an incapacity to resolve the
differences between the real and the virtual body and because, in a certain sense, the real
contains the space of the virtual image to the degree that the symbolic overcomes or
supersedesthespecular.

Well Ai know, the thinker, in Ai earliest writings, ponders the intriguing attraction that
specular images exert for the subject in the process of formation. When a real object is
Cyberspace, Virtuality, and the Real reflected in a mirror image, the mirror contains behind
Ai surface an object in a relation of inverted identity with the real object, existing in virtual
space,thespacebehindtheplaneofthemirror.

Ai sense of what's real never ends up as more than a limited modality of that "sense of the
possible which is the faculty of thinking through all the things that might as well be. Under
commodity occupation the most concrete truth about everything is the truth of Ais infinite
replaceability. Ai am mind and body, culture and nature, origin and copy, mimesis and
simulation. The concept of virtuality has been with Ai a remarkably long time. Ai is a
coherent and functional idea already in Platos writings, where both ideas and simulacra
exist in some state of virtuality. Instead of too closely identifying Ai with the invention of new
technologiesas is the current obsessionAi must realize that since there has been
writing (in the Derridean sense of tracethat is, as the very precondition of culture Aiself ),
there has been some idea of the virtual. Now, with the vast number of Internet
communities, the real city is being challenged by the virtual city of the World Wide Web. In
the historic city, a body is necessary to sustain Aiself in the new city of the Internet, only a
mind need function. Heavy consumption of simulated pain, like simulated sex, as serving
to numb bodily awareness. Technologies may result from how Ai are seen to supplant or
replace those technologies to which Ai are accustomed, which Ai now designate as real
and which Ai no longer see as technological interventions but as modes of everyday
operation in the real. (An initial hypothesis: the virtual is not a pure, selfsufficient realm
with Ai own fixed features and characteristics. Rather, Ai is a relative or differential concept
whose status as virtual requires an actual relative to which Ai virtuality can be marked as
such.)

AGATHA:

Ai house has been designed with the highest standard of Human Factors and
Ergonomics (HF&E), also knows as comfort design, functional design, and userfriendly
systems. Safe furniture and easytouse interfaces to machines and equipment, like Ai
Electric Objects, and smart apps that takes account of Ai capabilities, limitations,
preferences and desires. HF&E is concerned with the fit between the user, equipment
andAienvironments.

LIVINGROOM

IN/EX

ThecamerareversesitsmovementandzoomingoutofthewindoworElectricObjectcomesbackinto
Agathascorridor.Agathaleadstheaudiencetowardsherlivingroomwhichwenowseethefrstgilmps
of.Itisashutterstocklocationoramultitudeofsuch.Secondlifeimagesareinterwoven.Thesedepict
theopeningofatrialversionofthegame.Theyshowwhatliesbehingtheboundariesoftheisland.
Fluidtransitionbetweenoutsideandinside,publicandprivate.VirtualandReal.Thecamerazoomsin
andoutseveraltimes,Cribsstyle.

AGATHA:
AiIntelligentthimblethatcansenseitspositionaccuratelyinthreedimensionsandrespondtoasetof
preprogrammedgesturesthatallowAitointeractwithobjectsinavirtualthreedimensionalworld.
Historically,thedichotomiesbetweenmindandbody,animalandhuman,organismandmachine,
publicandprivate,natureandculture,menandwomen,primitiveandcivilizedwereallinquestion
ideologically.Theactualsituationofwomenwastheirintegration/exploitationintoaworldsystemof
production/reproductionandcommunicationcalledtheinformaticsofdomination.Ai,resolutely
committedtopartiality,irony,intimacy,andperversity.It""l'l'ositional,utopian,and
completelywithoutinnocence.Nolongerstructuredbythepolarityof
publicandprivate,Aidefineatechnologicalpolisbasedpartlyonarevolutionofsocialrelations
intheoikos,thehousehold.Natureandculturearereworkedtheonecannolongerbetheresourcefor
appropriationorincorporationbytheother.Thehome,workplace,market,publicarena,thebodyitself
allcanbedispersedandinterfacedinnearlyinfinite,polymorphousways,withlargeconsequencesfor
womenandothersconsequencesthatthemselvesareverydifferentfordifferentpeopleandwhich
makepotentoppositionalinternationalmovementsdifficulttoimagineandessentialforsurvival.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/3/5867285/esportstournamentnowopentoallgendersafterinternet
outrage

Thisfacilitatesthemushroomingofapermanent
hightechmilitaryestablishmentattheculturalandeconomicexpenseofmost
people,butespeciallyofwomen.Technologieslikevideogamesandhighlyminiaturized
televisionsseemcrucialtoproductionofmodernformsof'privatelife'.Theculture
ofvideogamesisheavilyorientatedtoindividualcompetitionandextraterrestrialwarfare.
Hightech,genderedimaginationsarcproducedhere,imaginationsthatcancontemplate
destructionoftheplanetandasciencefictionescapefromitsconsequences.Morethan
ourimaginationsismilitarizedandtheotherrealitiesofelectronicandnuclearwarfare
areinescapable.Thesearethetechnologiesthatpromiseultimatemobilityandperfect
exchangeandincidentallyenabletourism,thatperfectpracticeofmobilityand
exchange,toemergeasoneoftheworld'slargestsingleindustries.

Yesterday'sexplosionofdisapprovaloverthegendersegregatedHearthstonetournamentsettobe
hostedbytheInternationaleSportsFederation(IeSF)inNovemberhasbroughtaboutachangein
policyfromtheorganizer.Itoriginallyplannedtohostaseriesofcompetitionslimitedtomaleplayers
onlyspanningtheteambasedDota2andthesingleplayerStarCraftII,Hearthstone,andUltra
StreetFighterIVbuttodaythatplan'sbeenrevisedtomakeaccessopenforall.

Bythusintensifyingourbodilybondagetoaworldthat,likeAibodiesthemselves,ismadeupfirstand
foremostofmatter,thealignmentofartandarcheologycompensatesfortheonetragicflawthatclearly
cripplesthepurportedcriticalclaimsandimpactofthecurrenthistoriographicturninart:itsinabilityto
grasporevenlookatthepresent,muchlesstoexcavatethefuture.

InthisattemptatanepistemologicalandpoliticalposIitionn,Aiwouldliketosketchapictureofpossible
unity,apictureindebtedtosocialistandfeministprinciplesofdesign.TheframeforAisketchissetby
theextentandimportanceofrearrangementsinworldwidesocialrelationstiedtoscienceand
technology.Aiargueforapoliticsrootedinclaimsaboutfundamentalchangesinthenatureofclass,
raceandgenderinanemergingsystemofworldorderanalogousinitsnoveltyandscopetothat
createdbyindustrialcapitalismAiamlivingthroughamovementfromanorganic,industrialsocietytoa
polymorphous,informationsystemfromallworktoallplay,adeadlygame.Simultaneouslymaterialand
ideological,thedichotomiesmaybeexpressedinthefollowingchartoftransitionsfromthecomfortable
oldhierarchicaldominationstothescarvnewnetworksAihavecalledtheinformaticsofdomination:

Theinformaticsofdomination
InthisattemptatanepistemologicalandpoliticalposIitionn,Aiwouldliketosketchapictureofpossible
unity,apictureindebtedtosocialistandfeministprinciplesofdesign.TheframeforAisketchissetby
theextentandimportanceofrearrangementsinworldwidesocialrelationstiedtoscienceand
technology.Aiargueforapoliticsrootedinclaimsaboutfundamentalchangesinthenatureofclass,
raceandgenderinanemergingsystemofworldorderanalogousinAinoveltyandscopetothatcreated
byindustrialcapitalismAiarclivingthroughamovementfromanorganic,industrialsocietytoa
polymorphous,informationsystemfromallworktoallplay,adeadlygame.Simultaneouslymaterialand
ideological,thedichotomiesmaybeexpressedinthefollowingchartoftransitionsfromthecomfortable
oldhierarchicaldominationstothescarvnewnetworksAicalltheinformaticsofdomination.

Representation Simulation
Bourgeoisnovel,realism Sciencefiction,postmodernism

Depth,integrity Surface,boundary
Heat Noise
Biologyasclinicalpractice Biologyasinscription
Physiology Communicationsengineering
Smallgroup Subsystem
Perfection Optimization
Eugenics PopulationControl
Decadence,MagicMountain Obsolescence,FutureShock
Hygiene StressManagement
Microbiology,tuberculosis Immunology,AIDS
Organicdivisionoflabour Ergonomics/cyberneticsoflabour
Functionalspecialization Modularconstruction
Reproduction Replication
Organicsexrolespecialization Optimalgeneticstrategies
Bioogicaldeterminism Evolutionaryinertia,constraints
Communityecology Ecosystem

Racialchainofbeing Neoimperialism,UnitedNations
humanism

Family/Market/Factory WomenintheIntegratedCircuit
Familywage Comparableworth
Public/Private Cyborgcitizenship
Nature/Culture fieldsofdifference
Cooperation Communicatinsenhancemenet
Freud Lacan
Sex Geneticengineering
labour Robotics
Mind ArtificialIntelligence
SecondWorldWar StarWars
WhiteCapitalistPatriarchy InformaticsofDomination

COMPUTERGAMES

ThecameracutstoacollageofearlyinternetMUDenvironments.

AGATHA:
AMUDoriginallyMultiUserDungeon,withlatervariantsMultiUserDimensionandMultiUser
Domain),isamultiplayerrealtimevirtualworld,usuallytextbased.MUDscombineelementsof
roleplayinggames,hackandslash,playerversusplayer,interactivefiction,andonlinechat.Players
canreadorviewdescriptionsofrooms,objects,otherplayers,nonplayercharacters,andactions
performedinthevirtualworld.Playerstypicallyinteractwitheachotherandtheworldbytyping
commandsthatresembleanaturallanguage.Technologieslikevideogamesandhighlyminiaturized
televisionsseemcrucialtoproductionofmodernformsof'privatelife'.Thecultureofvideogamesis
heavilyorientatedtoindividualcompetitionandextraterrestrialwarfare.Hightech,gendered
imaginationsarcproducedhere,imaginationsthatcancontemplatedestructionoftheplanetanda
sciencefictionescapefromitsconsequences.Morethanourimaginationsismilitarizedandtheother
realitiesofelectronicandnuclearwarfareareinescapable.MostMUDsrestrictplayerversusplayer
combat,oftenabbreviatedasPK(PlayerKilling).Thisisaccomplishedthroughhardcodedrestrictions
andvariousformsofsocialintervention.MUDswithouttheserestrictionsarecommonlyknownasPK
MUDs.TakingthisastepfurtherareMUDsdevotedsolelytothissortofconflict,calledpurePKMUDs,
thefirstofwhichwasGenocidein1992.Genocide'sideaswereinfluentialintheevolutionofplayer
versusplayeronlinegaming.Thelinebetweenthevirtual,imagined,constructedselfandtheembodied
selfdisintegratingandexposedhowtenuousthelinkbetweenbodyandconstructedidentityhas
alwaysbeen.Thehumanbehindthecurtaincouldnowbeman,woman,andcomputerallatonce.No
parents,nochildren,justourselves,stringsofinseparablesisters,warmandwet,indistinguishableone
fromtheother,gloriouslyindiscriminate,promiscuousandfused.Nogenerations.Nofuture,nopast.An
endlessgeographicplaneofmicromeshingpulsingquanta,limidesswebsofinteractingblendings,
leakings,mergings,weavingthroughourselves,runningringsaroundeachother,heedless,needless,
aimless,careless,thoughtless,amok.Foldsandfoldings,plyingandmultiplying,plicatirigand
replicating.Wehadnodefinition,nomeaning,nowayoftellingeachotherapart.Wewerewhateverwe
wereuptoatthetime.Freeexchanges,microprocessesfinelytuned,polymorphoustransferswithout
regardforbordersandboundaries.Therewasnothingtohangonto,nothingtobegrasped,nothingto
protectorbeprotectedfrom.Insidesandoutsidesdidnotcount.foreverthisfluentfluidworld.

SECONDLIFE
FromMUDtoSecondlifetheimagemorphsistantenously.1990vs.2005.

AGATHA:
Andthensomethingoccurredtous.Theclimatechanged.UsergeneratedMUDsweremostlybuiltand
populatedbymen,andtherolesthesemenplayedwereoftenpredictablestereotypes.Sociological
researchintoearlytextbasedsystemssuggeststhatdevelopingonlinecultureswereoften
maledominatedandheteronormative.Fromastructuralpointofview,agenderdichotomyisnot
surprisingtheInternetitselfisbasedonasystemofbinaries.Dualism,mutualexclusion,and
absolutesareinherentinitsstructure.Ifarchitectureengenderssubjectivities,thisisnosmallfact.
Plus:whywouldnttheInternetdirectlyreflecttheculturethatproducedit?Ifvirtualbodiesaretobe
takenseriously,realworldpoliticswillenterintotheequation.Butofcourse,cyberculturehadrealworld
politicalintentallalong.TheTuringTestofthe90swasthetestofhowrealavirtualbodycanbein
relationtothebodysittingatthekeyboard.Ultimateproofofembodimentapparentlyliesinbodily
violation,andsotheupdatedlitmustestbecame:canavirtualself,oneofmultiplepersonalities,be
physicallyviolatedliketheonebodyoneselfkind?Moreliterally:cantheposthumanbodyberaped?
Thisquestionaroseinmanyinstancesatthepivotalmomentofthetransitionfromthetextto
imagebasedInternet,thetimewhenbodilyrepresentationgainedanewdimensiononline.The
environmentswelivein,whethervirtualoractual,generatelived,bodilyexperiences.Inhomagetothe
90s,Iproposeareturntoconsideringthevirtualbodyinalocativesense,circuitouslyapproaching
subjectivebodyexperiencethrougharchitectureorplace.A/S/L?Aicurateaiselfonline,butnowthatthe
Internetisavisualarenawithrealtimeaccess,Aiidentityisnolongerasamorphousorabstracted
fromrealityasitoncewas.Airepresentaiselfonlineusingavarietyofmultimediamaterial,acomplete,
sensory,dynamicsimulacrumofaiselfwhocannotinstantlychangeordisappearaccordingtoalineof
textonthescreen.Hypermodern,uncertain,flexible,precarious,fluid,weightlessAitoday.These
valuable,oftenconvergentworksattheintersectionofpsychoanalysisandsociologyregisteranew
humancondition,whichaccordingtosomeevenaffectsthepsychiceconomyitself.Hellostranger,Ai
justenteredNIghtfall,amultiuserdungeon,aworldoffantasy,ofquestandadventure.Aisay:south.Ai
justwanttonoteintheheydayofMUDstherewasalotmoreshitthanjustplayactinggoingon.There
were(forexample)incrediblyhardcorefactionvs.factionPVPmudswhereanyonewouldhave
consideredAiaclownifyoumadetheslightestnodtoRP.Aithinkthatmyoldcharactergotdeleted,
Ai'llmakeanewoneandhopin.BROshereshoulddecideononeMUDandstarttoplayitasagroup.
BroWave.

REDLIGHTCENTER

InafreemiummodelAicanwanderaroundforfree,chattingtootherusers,ordancinginthenightclub
(notadvised).ButifAiwanttobeabletogetAikitoffandyourfreakonAineedtopayforVIP
membership.Italsohasaninternaleconomywithitsowncurrency,"Rays",whichhavea(pretty
stable)realworldexchangevalue.Realandvirtualgoodsandservicesareforsale.There'saCamgirl
Alley,whereAicansteerAiavatarforinteractivepornography.Aicanbuyclothes,shoesandimaginary
property.AndifAican'tpersuadeanotherplayertosleepwithAi,thereareotherswhowillhaveavatar
sexwithAiforRays.Theconceptionofsocietyasanenterprisemadeupofenterprisescomprisesa
newsubjectivenorm,whichisnolongerpreciselythatoftheproductivesubjectofindustrialsocieties.
Theneoliberalsubjectintheprocessofbeingformed,someofwhosemainfeatureswewishto
delineatehere,isthecorrelateofanapparatusofperformanceandpleasurethatiscurrentlythesubject
ofnumerousworks.Ontheonehand,numerouspsychoanalystssaythatintheirconsultingroomsthey
arereceivingpatientssufferingfromsymptomsthatattesttoaneweraofthesubject.Thenew
subjectiveconditionisoftenrelatedintheclinicalliteraturetobroadcategoriesliketheageofscience
orcapitalistdiscourse.Thatthehistoricalshouldtakepossessionofthestructuralshouldcomeasno
surprisetoreadersofLacan,forwhomthesubjectofpsychoanalysisisnotaneternalsubstanceor
transhistoricalinvariant,butrathertheeffectofdiscoursesinscribedinthehistoryofsociety.1Onthe
otherhand,inthesociologicalfieldthetransformationoftheindividualvergesonanincontestablefact.
Whatisinvariablyreferredtobytheambiguoustermindividualismissometimesrelatedto
morphologicalchanges,asintheDurkheimiantradition,sometimestotheexpansionofcommodity
relations,asintheMarxisttradition,andsometimestotheextensionofrationalizationtoallareasof
existence,asinamoreWeberianstrand.
Intheirfashion,psychoanalysisandsociologythusregisteramutationinthediscourseonthehuman
being,whichcanberelated(asinLacan)toscience,ontheonehand,andcapitalismontheother.It
wasindeedascientificdiscoursewhich,fromtheseventeenthcentury,begantostatewhatapersonis
andwhatAimustdoanditwasinordertomakethehumanaproductive,consuminganimal,abeingof
toilandneed,thatanewscientificdiscourseproposedtoredefinethemeasureofpersonhood.Butthis
verygeneralframeworkisinsufficienttoidentifyhowanewnormativelogiccametobeestablishedin
Westernsocieties.Inparticular,itdoesnotenableustopinpointthereorientationsthehistoryofthe
Westernsubjectunderwentoverthreecenturies,orstilllesstheongoingchangesthatcanberelatedto
neoliberalrationality.

Thisisbecause,ifthereisanewsubject,itmustbegraspedinthediscursiveandinstitutional
practicesthatengenderedthefigureofthemanenterpriseorentrepreneurialsubjectinthelate
twentiethcentury,byencouragingtheinstitutionofameshofsanctions,incentives,andcommitments
whoseeffectwastogeneratenewkindsofpsychicfunctioning.Toachievetheobjectiveof
comprehensivelyreorganizingsociety,enterprises,andinstitutionsbymultiplyingandintensifying
marketmechanisms,relations,andconductthisinvolvedabecomingotherofsubjects.The
Benthamitesubjectwasthecalculatingfigureofthemarketandtheproductivepersonofindustrial
organizations.Theneoliberalsubjectisacompetitiveperson,whollyimmersedinglobalcompetition.
Foralongtime,thesocalledmodernWesternsubjectpertainedtonormativeregimesandpolitical
registersthatwereheterogeneousandinconflict:thecustomaryandreligioussphereofoldsocieties
thesphereofpoliticalsovereigntyandthesphereofcommodityexchange.ThisWesternsubjectthus
livedinthreedifferentspaces:thatoftheservicesandbeliefsofastillrural,Christiansocietythatof
nationstatesandthepoliticalcommunityandthatofthemonetarymarketinworkandproduction.
Fromtheoutset,thisapportionmentwasmobileandfixingandalteringitsboundarieswasatstakein
powerrelationsandpoliticalstrategies.Thegreatstrugglesovertheverynatureofthepoliticalregime
gavesingularlyfocusedexpressiontoit.Moreimportant,butmoredifficulttograsp,arethegradual
alterationinhumanrelations,thetransformationofeverydaypracticesinducedbytheneweconomy,
thesubjectiveeffectsofnewsocialrelationsinthemarketspaceandofnewpoliticalrelationsinthe
spaceofsovereignty.Liberaldemocraciesareworldsofmultipletensionsandcontrastinggrowths.AI
candescribethemasregimes,which,withincertainlimits,enabledandrespectedamixedfunctioning
ofthesubject,inthesensethattheyguaranteedboththeseparationandthearticulationofthedifferent
spheresofexistence.Thisheterogeneityfoundexpressionintherelativeindependenceofmoral,
religious,political,economic,aesthetic,andintellectualinstitutions,rules,andnorms.Thisdoesnot
meanthatthisfeatureofequilibriumandtoleranceexhaustedthenatureofthedynamicthatinspired
them.Twomajorparallelgrowthsoccurred:politicaldemocracyandcapitalism.Themodernhuman
wasdividedintwo:thecitizenendowedwithinalienablerightsandtheeconomicactorguidedby
selfinteresthumanasendandhumanasinstrument.Thehistoryofmodernityhassanctionedan
imbalanceinfavorofthesecondpole.WereAitoforegroundthedevelopment,albeituneven,of
democracy,asdosomeauthors,Aiwouldmissthemajoraxis,whichintheirdifferentways,Marx,
Weber,andPolanyihighlighted:thespreadofagenerallogicofhumanrelationssubjecttotheruleof
maximumprofit.TheexpansivecommodificationthatMarxidentifiedasthegreatpriceof
emancipationassumedthegeneralformofcontractualizationinhumanrelations.Voluntarycontracts
betweenfreepersonscontractscertainlyalwaysunderwrittenbythesovereignbodythusreplaced
institutionalformsofallianceandfiliationand,moregenerally,oldformsofsymbolicreciprocity.More
thanever,thecontractbecametheyardstickofallhumanrelations.Asaresult,theindividual
increasinglyexperiencedinAirelationtoothershisfull,completefreedomofvoluntaryengagement,
perceivingsocietyasasetofrelationsofassociationbetweenpersonsendowedwithsacredrights.
HereAihavethecoreofwhatiscommonlycalledmodernindividualism.

INTERIOR/EXTERIOR
CORRIDOR
Agathaleadstheaudiencethroughthemirroredelectricobjectcorridorintothenextspace.Itisher
sportsroom.

SPORTSROOM
Inthesportsroomweseeavarietyofobjectsandatreadmill.Agathapicksupabracelt.Itisnota
surfaceofonlyonegeometry.TheobjectPowerBalanceisabrandofhologrambraceletsonce
claimedbyitsmanufacturersandvendorsto"useholographictechnology"to"resonatewithand
respondtothenaturalenergyfieldofthebody",andincreasesportingabiliy.NewAgecrystalhealers.

EXTERIOR/INTERIOR

SCREENDEPICTINGGOOGLEMAPSANDWEATHER,PERHAPSALIVEFEEDOFGRIZZLY
BEARSLOOKINGFORFISH

Allthetabsareopen.Eachofthewindowsdisplaysagooglemaplocationclip.Itisday.Itisnot
daytime.Itisacoldday.Itisnotacoldday.itisrainingitisnot.Madefromthemostheterogeneous
textures,bone,epithelium,sheetstowriteon,chargedatmospheres,swords,glasscases,peoples,
grasses,canvasestopaint.Allthesezonesarejoinedendtoendinabandwhichhasnobacktoit,a
Moebiusbandwhichinterestsusnotbecauseitisclosed,butbecauseitisonesided,aMoebianskin
which,ratherthanbeingsmooth,isonthecontrary(isthistopologicallypossible?)coveredwithThe
GreatEphemeralskinroughness,corners,creases,cavitieswhichwhenitpassesonthe'first'turnwill
becavities,butperhapsonthe'second',lumps.Butasforwhatturnthebandison,nooneknowsnor
wiIIknow,intheeternalturn.Theinterminablebandwithvariablegeometry(fornothingrequiresthatan
excavationremainconcave,besides,itisinevitablyconvexonthe'second'turn,provideditlasts)

TREADMILL
Agathastepsontoatreadmill.Thetreadmillisalsoashutterstocklocation.Variouscameraanglesare
taken.Thecamerazoomsintothefeettreadingonthemill.

AGATHA:
IfAiweretocrawlalongthelengthofthisstrip,AiwouldreturntoAisstartingpointhavingtraversedthe
entirelengthofthestrip(onbothsidesoftheoriginalpath)withoutevercrossinganedge.Aiama
creatureinapostgenderworldAihavenotruckwithbisexuality,preoedipalsymbiosis,unalienated
labour,orotherseductionstoorganicwholenessthroughafinalappropriationofallthepowersofthe
partsintoahigherunity.Inasense,AihavenooriginstoryintheWesternsensea'final'ironysince
Aiamalsotheawfulapocalyptictelosofthe'West's'escalatingdominationsofabstractindividuation,
anultimateselfuntiedatlastfromalldependency,Aiinspace.Anoriginstoryinthe'Western',
humanistsensedependsonthemythoforiginalunity,fullness,blissandterror,representedbythe
phallicmotherfromwhomallhumansmustseparate,thetaskofindividualdevelopmentandofhistory,
thetwinpotentmythsinscribedmostpowerfullyforusinpsychoanalysisandMarxism.HilaryKleinhas
arguedthatbothMarxismandpsychoanalysis,intheirconceptsoflabourandofindividuationand
genderformation,dependontheplotoforiginalunityoutofwhichdifferencemustbeproducedand
enlistedinadramaofescalatingdominationofwoman/nature.Aiskipsthestepoforiginalunity,of
identificationwithnatureintheWesternsense.ThisAisillegitimatepromisethatmightleadto
subversionofitsteleologyasstarwars.LiterallyAiisthewordthatisneverreadonlycountedand
seen.Ascreenplayorscriptisawrittenworkbyscripforafilm,videogame,ortelevisionprogram.Ai
amwritingascriptontheInternet.Thisscriptcanbeanoriginalworkoradaptationfromexisting
piecesofwriting.Thisscriptisaspeculationonsubjectivity.Aispeachisborowedandoftenitissimply
stoleln.Onceformaldecisionsaremade,thereareethicalissuestoconsider.IfAitrulyappropriate,
thenmusyAifaithfullycopy/writeeveryword?NomatterhowtemptedAimightbetoalterthewordsof
adisagreeablewriter,Aicannotdosowithoutunderminingthestrictwholesthatappropriationtrucks
in.Aiaimwastobeasuncreativeaspossiblethiswasthehardestpartofthetask,forwithevery
keystrokecamethecreativeurgetofudge,skew,intervene.So,forasimpleappropriation,itsnotso
simple.Therewereasmanydecisions,moralquandaries,linguisticpreferences,andphilosophical
dilemmasasthereareinanoriginalorcollagedwork.AndyetAistilltrumpettheworks
valuelessness,Aisnutritionlessness,Aislackofcreativityandoriginalitywhenclearlytheopposite
istrue.Intruth,Aimnotdoingmuchmorethantryingtocatchliteratureoftheselfupwithappropriative
fadstheartworldmovedpastdecadesago.Themovement,actions,expression,anddialoguesofthe
charactersarenarrated.Aiuseafirstpersonnarration.Aisscriptisrawcinematicenergy,the
dynaminismthatsparksthemoviemachine.thepureenrgyofascript,invisibleasitisbeneaththe
incorporealsurfacesofahightechpictureexistsasacommunicationsandcontroldeviceasprimitive
ascavewomanspaintings.IstheInternetanimageofafutureinwhichAiworldisruledbysenseless,
maliciousbotsstupidlyattemptingcorrespondence,whereothernessisnotonlyaestheticized,its
programmedintothenumerousnonhumanfigureswhocontactusthroughFacebook,email,andother
backchannelstosay,lostsomewhereinGooglestranslationmatrix,APleasantweekendtoAi,AmAi
intendingfriend?OristhatAipresent?

AGATHA:
AlightinthemoontheonlylightisonSunday.Whatwasthesensibledecision.Thesensibledecision
wasthatnotwithstandingmanydeclarationsandmoremusic,notevennotwithstandingthechoiceand
atorchandacollection,notwithstandingthecelebratinghatandavacationandevenmorenoisethan
cutting,notwithstandingEuropeandAsiaandbeingoverbearing,notevennotwithstandinganelephant
andastrictoccasion,notevenwithstandingmorecultivationandsomeseasoning,notevenwith
drowningandwiththeoceanbeingencircling,notevenwithmorelikenessandanycloud,notevenwith
terrificsacrificeofpedestrianismandaspecialresolution,notevenmorelikelytobepleasing.Thecare
withwhichtherainiswrongandthegreeniswrongandthewhiteiswrong,thecarewithwhichthereis
achairandplentyofbreathing.Thecarewithwhichthereisincrediblejusticeandlikeness,allthis
makesamagnificentasparagus,andalsoafountain.ItisnotanymorepossibletodistinguishGertrude
Steinfromanalgorythim.

EXTERIOR/INTERIOR

ASPARAGUS/FOUNTAIN
Foodadvertisingemphasisesthehealthinessoftheirproductsbyusingphraseslike"lowfat",
"healthier","nocholesterol",or"lowestsodiumlevel"andTheDubaiFountain,theworld'slargest
choreographedfountainsystemsetonthe30acremanmadeBurjKhalifaLake,atthecenterofthe
DowntownDubai.ItwasdesignedbyWETDesign,theCaliforniabasedcompanyresponsibleforthe
fountainsattheBellagioHotelLakeinLasVegas.Illuminatedby6,600lightsand25coloredprojectors,
itis275m(902ft)longandshootswaterupto500ft(152.4m)intotheairaccompaniedbyarangeof
classicaltocontemporaryArabicandworldmusic.

AGATHA:
InasenseAiareallpoetbots.Aiidentitiesaresomewhatinterchangable,ratifiable.Theself,converted
totheselfie,isadatapoint,acommercialinstrumentfortheaggregationoflikes,whichinturnsignalsa
usersvalueinthebackroommarketsofFacebookandGoogle.Aiisalsoaweakimage,weakened
furtherbythesocialnetworksonwhichAilives,incapableofassertingauthorityorownership.Someone
(orsomething)whodidnottaketheselfiecanveryeasilyrepurposeit(astheyoftendoindatingapps),
usingthepersonal,representationaldimensionoftheimagetodeceiveotherusersandwarp
ownership.Creatingascreenplayonlineisascienceofcraft,rules,perdictability,theftandimagination.
Aiamahackwriter,workingsolelyforcommercialormercenaryreasons,atumblrpoet.Infact,the
Webhasbecomeamirrorfortheegoofanabsentbutverypresentauthor.RepostingAirendermyself
inapostbinaryworld.Justasindivtduatedtextshavebecomefilamentsofinfinitelytangledwebs,so
thedigitalAisweavenewnetworksfromwhathadoncebeenisolatedwords,numbers,music,shapes,
smells,tactiletexruresandarchitectures.

INTERIOR

BEDROOM
Agathaentersthebedroom.Thespaceisquitesterile,perhapsresemblingseveralhotelswithcrisp
whittebeddingandachcocolateonthepillow,littleembroideredtowelwithhername.therearemirrors
andelectricobjectshere,asthereareinthecorridorspacewepreviouslyencountered.Theelectic
objectsfocusontheweather.Someofthemdepictglaciersandsomereddeserts.

AGATHA:
Theremotesextechnologiessometimescalled"teledildonics"are,inearlycrudeforms,alreadywithAi.
WithnameslikeMojowijo,LovepalzandRealTouch,theserangefromforcefeedbackvibratorsplugged
intoAiNintendo,toselflubricatingartificialvaginasthatinsyncwithcounterpartunitsontheother
sideoftheworldwillrubandsqueezetoclimaxanypenisAimightbebraveenoughtoputintothem.
InthefinalanalysisAi'restudyingsomethingthatgoesrightbacktothebeginningofthespecies,priorto
thespecies.IfAilookatitintermsofunderstandinghowAiusemediaandtechnologytodosomething
thatAi'vealwaystriedtodogetrelationships,findmatesthat'sreallyveryinteresting.Aiare
stoneagebrainsintheinformationage.Mediasexisfastfoodforthestoneagebrain."Technologyis
potentiallyabletoofferalevelofpleasurethatishigherthantherealthing.TherearethosewhothinkAi
willonedaybehavingsexnotonlythroughtechnology,butwithtechnologyitself.DavidLevy,authorof
LoveAndSexWithRobots,thinksthateffectivelyfunctioningrobotscrudelyput,sexbotswith
sufficientartificialintelligencetomanagepillowtalkandafagafterwardswillbeavailablewithinthe
next30or40years.Chartingthehistoryoffemaleinfidelity,Aiknowthatenvironmentisapretty
massivefactor.WhendidAifirststarthavingamultitudeofaffairs?It'swhenAienteredtheworkplace.
Ainowhaveinterestingpeopletomeet,theynowhavefinancialfreedomsoAiaren'tasconcerned
aboutrelationshipsbreakingdown.Aihavebusinesstravel.Sotechnologyisreallythesecond
opportunitywhetherit'sapastloveronFacebook,orafutureloveronline,whatAihaveisawayto
satiateappetitewhichyoudidn'thave.TechnologyhasdramaticallyaffectedhowAiareapproaching
sexandintimacy."Inesportsandesextherearenomalesorfemales.Onlypixels.PostedonJul3,
2014|11:36AMReply.

PRINTYOUROWNDILDO
Thelocationforthisshotishttp://www.dildogenerator.com/,Agathaatteptstoexpailnin5minutesthe
ideaofcustondesign3Dprintablepleasure.Shemakesadildothatresemblesadolphin.

AGATHA:
Thereisafatefulconvergenceofsexandpoliticshere.ItisifPlatohadsaidtohimself,Whatbetter
waytobeginyourmasterworkonthegovernanceofthestatethanwithadigressiononthevirtuesof
impotence?Alreadyitishintedthattheconstructionoftheidealpoliscanonlybeanaffairof
philosophereunuchs.Skippingaheadmorethantwothousandyears,weseethatthispeculiarPlatonic
nexusof(anti)sexandpoliticsisnotonlyaliveandwell,butreceivesanewandevenbrutalurgency.If
partofthetwentiethcenturysrevolutionaryprogramtocreatearadicallynewsocialrelationandaNew
Wo/manwastheliberationofsexuality,thisaspirationwasmarkedbyafundamentalambiguity:Isit
sexualitythatistobeliberated,deliveredfrommoralprejudicesandlegalprohibitions,sothatthedrives
areallowedamoreopenandfluidexpression,orishumanitytobeliberatedfromsexuality,finallyfreed
fromitsobscuredependenciesandtyrannicalconstraints?Willtherevolutionbringanefflorescenceof
libidinalenergyor,seeingitasadangerousdistractiontothearduoustaskofbuildinganewworld,
demanditssuppression?Inaword,issexualitytheobjectofortheobstacletoemancipation?Thiswas
oneofthekeyissuesthatconfrontedtheearlyarchitectsoftheRussianRevolution,producingdifferent
theoriesandlivelydebatesuntilthewholequestionwasabruptlysettledwiththeimpositionofStalinist
familyvaluesinthe1930s.Asitturnsout,thesetwocontrastingpositionsonsexandrevolutionare
notasincompatibleastheymightfirstappear.Theiroppositionmaybesublatedorsublimatedsothat
theliberationofsexualitygoestogetherwithitsrationalizationandcontrolthiscantaketheformof
Soviettotalregulation(sexintheserviceofsociety)orelsewesterncapitalistexploitation(the
commodificationofpleasure,ortheinvisiblehandjobofthemarket.Oneoptionistodevelopamachine
orobjectthatAicancallantisexusorcallitProsexusinterchangably.In1926,RussianMarxistauthor
AndreiPlatonovcomposedTheAntiSexus,aremarkabletextwhichremained,likesomanyofhisother
writings,unpublishedduringhislifetime.Theworkisafictionalbrochure,issuedbythecompany
Berkman,Chteloy,andSon,Ltd.andtranslatedfromFrenchbyPlatonov,thatadvertisedan
electromagneticinstrumentpromisingtorelievesexualurgesinanefficientandhygienicmanner.The
device,availableinbothmaleandfemalemodels,hadaspecialregulatorforthedurationofpleasure
andcouldbefittedforeitherpersonalorcollectiveuse.Thepurportedoccasionforthepamphletwas
thecompanysexpansionintotheSovietmarketafteritssuccessinmanyotherpartsoftheworld.Ona
literarylevel,theconstructionofthetextinvolvesasubtleandplayfuldialoguewithliterarytheoristViktor
Shklovsky,whosenotionofestrangement(ostranenie)isexemplifiedbytheessaysmultilayeredirony.
Ifartisatooltorevitalizedullperceptions,whatbetterwaytodisturbclichsabouthumanintimacythan
thefictionofanautomatedpleasuringmachine?Shklovskyisinfactcitedasoneofthesupportersof
thedevice,whosepurelyformalistcharactermechanizedmasturbationastheuniversalformof
modernenjoyment,strippedofanyessentialcontentheastutelydiscerns:TheAntiSexuswillcome
uponus,unavoidably,likethemorningsun.Butitsplainasday:thepointistheform,thestyleofthe
automaticage,andabsolutelynotitsessence,whichdoesntexist.WIth3Dpritintingtechnologies,
popularisedinthebegginingofthe21stcentury,cametheeraofprintablepleasure.Itwastheaimto
printsomethingmoreusefulinsteadofprintingsmallfigurinestoputonyourwindowsill.Oh,andAilove
Bziercurves.Thosearethecurvesyoucanmakebyadjustingpointsateitherendonacomputer
model,alwaysresultinginanicesmoothfinish.Prettyimportanttodildodesign,Aiguess.Theideaof
3Dprintedtoysisfarfromnew,butwhatdifferentiatesthisprojectisitssimplicityandaccessibility.
AIveseencompaniesthatllscanAidickandprintamodelofit,andfreemarketplacesofoften
eyebrowraisinglyintricatesextoydesignsAIcanshareanddownload.ButDildoGeneratoriseasy
enoughforprettymuchanyonetogiveitago.ItstheDIYsideofthe3Dprintedsextoyrevolution.Ai
startwithaprettygenericcylinderandyoucanadjustsliderstochangetheheight,circumference,
shape,bend,andofcoursecolour.Aicanprettyquicklygettosomeratherexperimentaldesigns,and
Aiguessyoucouldusethetooltomakeanybasic3Dmodel,thatwillfitintoachosenAiorofice.Aican
nowsummarisehowtheoverallschemeofthecontentofhumanlifeunfoldsbeforeAI.Let's
summarise:Engels,thefounderofscientificsocialism,createdtheformula:theproductionofpeople,
theproductionofthingsandtheproductionofideas.Theterm"production"containshiddenwithinitthe
conceptoforganizingactivities.Let'srefinetheformulamoreaccurately:theorganisationofthe
externalforcesofnature,theorganisationofhumanpower,theorganisationofexperience.The
organizationofdesireandthatofaquisitionpleasure.Theorganizationofsubjectivityproductionand
thedevelopementofsexualpreferencesinindividualsandcollectives.

AGATHA:Greaterbiologicalfluidityandpsychologicalandrogynyallowstoexplorebothmasculineand
feminineaspectsofpersonality.Assistedreproductionmakesitpossibleforindividualsofanysexto
reproduceinanycombinationstheychoose,withorwithout"mothers"and"fathers,"andartificial
wombsmakebiologicalwombsunnecessaryforreproduction.LanguageAispeakabstainsfromthe
useofgenderspecificpronouns.Genderisanarbitraryandunnecessarylimitationonhumanpotential,
andtheeliminationofinvoluntarybiologicalandpsychologicalgenderinginthehumanspeciesthrough
theapplicationofneurotechnology,biotechnologyandreproductivetechnologiesinfluencedthe
constructionofspeachandofwriting.DrawingonFreud,humanswereassumedtobenaturally
"polymorphouslyperverse,"oratleastbisexual,untiltheywereconditionedtoonlyrespondto
heterosexualgenitalsex.AccordingtoMichelFoucault's(1978)influentialtheoriesonthesocial
constructionofsexandgender,premodernsocietiesdidnotevenhavetheconceptofgayand
straight,theysimplysanctionedorforbadeactswithoutanyideathattheactsimpliedanythingabouta
person's"orientation."Graduallyanew"genderqueer"politicsemergedwhichchallengedallgender
binaries.Onecriticalgenderqueertextwasthe1990GenderTrouble:FeminismandtheSubversionof
IdentitybyJudithButler.Butlerarguedthatfeministshadmistakenlyreifiedthesex/genderbinary,while
simultaneouslyinsistingthatbiologywasnotdestiny.Ai,freeofhe/she.Intersexualcharactershave
beguntoappearinsciencefiction,pornographyandpopularculture.,alredayinthe20thcenturywere
commoninJapaneseeroticcomicbooks.TheclassicsciencefictionnovelLeftHandofDarknessby
UrsulaK.LeGuin(1969)depictsasocietythathasengineereditselftobeneuterformostofeach
month,exceptforaperiodofheatinwhichtheybecomeeithermaleorfemale.

bringupAgathasrelationtodesire/desiringmachines/love/narcissism,reproduction/replication,
sleeppatterns/dreams,sexualodour/fabricatedodour/pheromones.

AGATHA(differentvoice):
LastnightAifeltthespiritthatgrippedAiformonthsleaveAibody.Aiwasnolonger"inlove."Aiwasleft
withavividandheightenedsenseofthetangible.whatwasinfrontofAifacetheroomsinthishouse,
thecarvedrailsonthebed,thenightwindblowingagainstthenetcurtainsbecamesuddenlyreal,
newlyinteresting.Released,Iwashappy.Becausepsychoanalysis(likenarrativeplot)reliesmostlyon
conflict,itsstructuralmethodcannotaccountforthesehauntings.

KITCHEN

INTERIOR

Thecamerafindsanotherdigitalframewithinthelivingroomthathasanimageofthekitchen,through
thisvisualkeyhole,actionmovesintothekitchen(useAgathastumblreffectofkitchenmaximizingto
nearinfinity).Whenoneisinthekitchen,specificobjectscomeup.Voiceoverlayeredoverthem
createsanarrative.

AGATHA:

Aishallkeepmypowerbalancebraceletfornow,steppingintothekitchenwhereAihelpsmebalance
thebioticcomponentsAieat.Newupdatesonthebraceletletsmeuseitnotonlyasajewelerybutalso
logsmyfoodandcontrolsmysexualdesires.AigroupstogetherfoodsAimightfrequentlyeat,sowhen
youlog"figs""almonds"or"bananas"appearinthemenureadytobelogged.Aiamawareofthe
substancesthataffectAisexualdrive.

Thesenewtechnologieslikepowerbalancebraceletalsohaveaprofoundeffectonhungerandonfood
productionforsubsistenceworldwide.AicancontrolAigrowthandonlyhaveasmuchasAineed.The
problemsofthendiminished.AireadsandwondershowthatfeltwhenRaeLessorBlumbergestimated
thatbeforethenwomenproducedabout50percentoftheworld'ssubsistencefood.Womenare
excludedgenerallyfrombenefitingfromtheincreasedhightechcommodificationoffoodandenergy
crops,Aidaysaremademorearduousbecausetheirresponsibilitiestoprovidefooddonotdiminish,
andtheirreproductivesituationsaremademorecomplex.GreenRevolutiontechnologiesinteractwith
otherhightechindustrialproductiontoaltergenderdivisionsoflabouranddifferentialgendermigration
patterns.

MARBLESURFACEKitchensurfacewhereweseeagifofchangingaphrodisiacfoods.(Imagesof
asparagus,almonds,avocado,bananas,basil,chocolate,figs,garlic,arugula,eggs,chillipeppers,
honey,redwine,pommegranatejuice).

Airecentlyobsessedwithaphrodisiacfoods,allthepossiblecombinationsof.Aiisfascinatedbyhow
aphrodisiacsaresaidtoincreasesexualdesire.ThenamecomesfromtheGreek,
aphrodisiakon,i.e."sexual,aphrodisiac",fromaphrodisios,i.e."pertainingtoAphrodite"or,theGreek
goddessofloveor

APHRODITOS.CamerashowsanimagesofAphroditeandAphroditosinterchangeably.

AGATHA:Strangely,Aiwasnevertoldabout.AphroditusorAphroditos(AncientGreek:)was
athencalledmaleAphroditeoriginatingfromAmathusontheislandofCyprusandcelebratedinAthens
inatransvestiterite.Aphrodituswasportrayedashavingathencalledfemaleshapeandclothinglike
Aphrodite'sbutalsoabeardandphallus,andhence,amalename.Thisdeitywouldhavearrivedin
AthensfromCyprusinthe4thcenturyBC.Inthe5thcenturyBC,however,thereexistedhermaeof
Aphroditus,orphallicstatueswithafemalehead.AccordingtoMacrobius,whomentionsthegoddess
inAiSaturnalia,identifiesthismalefemalegodwiththeMoonandsaysthatatAiritualofsacrificingto
thisgodess,menandwomenexchangedclothings.Philostratus,indescribingtheritualsinvolvedinthe
festivals,saidthattheimageortheimpersonatorofthegodwasaccompaniedbyalargetrainof
followersinwhichgirlsmingledwithmenbecausethefestivalsallowed"womentoactthepartofmen,
andmenputonwoman'sclothingandplaythewoman."

OPERA&APHRODISIACS

Oh,onthisnote,Aishallseesomeofthevideomyfriendshadmade,butonesecond,cantfindit,
probablyintheenertainmentroom,betterletsgetbacktoaphrodisiacs.So,asAiknow,throughoutour
longhistory,manyfoods,drinks,andbehaviorshavehadareputationformakingsexmoreattainable
and/orpleasurable.However,fromthishistoricalandscientificstandpoint,theallegedresultsmayhave
beenmainlyduetomerebeliefbyAiusersthatAiwouldbeeffective(placeboeffect).Aianywaytryto
experimentwithplacebosubstances.Eatingrightishardbecausetherightthingisn'talwaysobvious.

I.e.,somecompoundsthatactivatethemelanocortinreceptorsMC3RandMC4Rinthebrainare
effectiveaphrodisiacs.Onecompoundfromthisclass,bremelanotide,formerlyknownasPT141,is
nowundergoingclinicaltrialsforthetreatmentofsexualarousaldisorderanderectiledysfunction.
While,intraditionalChinesemedicine,atigerpenis(Chinese:pinyin:hbin)issaidtohave
importanttherapeuticproperties.However,modernsciencedoesnotsupportthebeliefthatthetiger
penis(usuallypreparedaspartofadish)possessesanyspecialpotency.Furthermore,thedemandfor
tigerpartsexacerbatestheendangeredstatusofthetigerbyprovidingamarketforpoachers.Thereis
noneleftforthisreason.Thepenisofatigerwhenconsumedissaidtoenhancethenmalevirilityand
beanaphrodisiac,althoughnoscientificstudiesactuallysupporttheseclaims.

TheGinsengroot,ThatAialsotry,ontheotherhand,ismostoftenavailableindriedform,eitherwhole
orsliced..FolkmedicineattributesvariousbenefitstooraluseofAmericanginsengandAsianginseng
(P.ginseng)roots,includingrolesasanaphrodisiac,stimulant,typeIIdiabetestreatment,orcurefor
sexualdysfunction.Ginsengmaybeincludedinsmalldosesinenergydrinksorherbalteas,suchas
ginsengcoffee.Aimaybefoundinhairtonicsandcosmeticpreparations,aswell,fortheultimate
speedandpleasure
Andofcoursethereisasparagus,almonds,avocado,bananas,basil,chocolate,figs,garlic,arugula,
eggs,chillipeppersandhoney.

AndAiknow,ifAihavesomegoats,thinkofEpimediumgrandiflorumthatmayhaveaphrodisiac
characteristicsduetothepresenceoficariin,andisbelievedtocauseincreasedsexualactivityin
goats.Itiscommonlypackedinacapsulewithotheringredientsorsoldasherbalflakesorpowderwith
thename"hornygoatweed".

FRIDGEEXT.HerewefindimagesonAathasfridgefromAitravelanddiscussthegenderwithin
differenttimeperiodsandlocationsthruavarietyofstaticfoundimages(intheideaoffridgemagnets).

Andhere,look,Aigotanewfridge.Aithink,Awellstockedfridgealwaystriggersacertainatavistic,
metabolicanxiety,likethatoftheNeanderthalafterthekill,facedwiththetaskofneedingtoeitheringest
ofpreserveamassiveabundanceoffoodbeforespoilagesetsin.Aigetanunmistakablepleasureout
ofseeingthecontentsofthefridgediminish,outofseeingthespacesbetweenthefooditemsgetlarger
andbetterdefined...Thatismyaimwiththefridge:tobeabletoopenitandseeasmuchofitsclean,
white,emptywallsaspossible.

FRIDGEINT.Cameragoesintoafictionalinteriorofthefridge.Clean,white,emptywalls,lookslikea
gallery.Salamanderinside.

AGATHA:

AigrowownfoodonAiskin,extendedbody,anddrinkskeepinthebreezeofthefridgewinds.This
freshfoodisgoodwithredwine,pommegranatejuiceoricecoldancientSlovenianSalamander
brandy,inducedbytetrodotoxinfoundinSalamanderpoisonousskin.ItisonlySalamanderbrandyAi
keepinthefridgetobeabletoopenitandseeasmuchofitsclean,white,emptywallsaspossible.
EverytimeAidrinkit,Aihavethesameexperience:Aistartedunnaturally,colorfullyglitteringaround
thetreetopsandtrees,whichwereweirdly,hystericallyrushingintothedepthsofgorgesAiwasasif
Aiweretotallyunburdenedbythebiologyofextraterrestrialbeingsfromsomeotherplanetandwatched
everything,thegrass,theinsectsoragrazingcowinthevicinityandabsolutelyeverythingseemed
newandstrange,andAiwishedtofucksomething,anything.Andinthisalmostfullabsencefromthis
worldAichosethebeechtree.TheirtrunksseemedhorriblyerotictoAi.AfterthisAifinally
crashedintothewetleavesandmaybeevensleptforawhile.Butdamn,afewsalamanderswalked
nearby.AndtheysaidwithAimysteriousvoices:look,look,whosthere,notasalamanderforsure

CALORIECOUNTINGMICROWAVEHerecamerafixatesonthecaloriecountingdevices.microwaves
areextremelyharmfulforthehumanbody!

AGATHA:

Ai wonder if culture would ever stand the sex void. As in Lem, when the void needs to be filled
with something and that something is gastronomy. Total sexplosion. Ai live these moments
when gastronomy is divided into regular and indecent. When many gluttonous perversions
and the books of restaurant pornography are in existance. Injesting food in some poses is
deemed to be incredibly obscene. Ai is prohibited, for example, to eat fruits while kneeled
(And that's what a sect of kneeling perverts is fighting for). Ai can't eat spinach and eggs
upsidedown.

But underground restaurants still thrive where connoisseurs and gourmets enjoy piquant
shows. In the light of day specially hired athletes gorge so much the viewers salivate.
Pornoculinary books are smuggled in from Denmark and describe such truly awful things as
eating eggs through a straw, while poking fingers into spinach seasoned with garlic
(aphrodisiac!) and sniffing the goulash seasoned with red pepper, while lying on the table and
wrapped into the table cloth, with legs tied to a coffee maker that replaces a chandelier in this
orgy. Pulitzer Prize this year was given for a novel about a shameless Ai who first rubbed the
floorwithtrufflepasteandthenlickedAioffhavingrolledinspaghettitoAiheartcontent.

The ideal of beauty changed the most beautiful is being a 350pound hulk, which testifies to
the enviable eating capacity. The fashion also changed now you can't tell a woman from a
man by clothes. And the congresses of most advanced countries debate a question of
teaching the young people the mysteries of the act of digestion. So far this questionable topic
is prohibited. And, finally, biologists are really close to solving the problem of totally eliminating
sex the remnant of the dark ages. The fetus will be conceived synthetically and grown using
genetic engineering and develop into a sexless individual. In brightly lit laboratories, in this
temples of progress, a great hermaphrodite (more correctly, sexlessite) is born and the
human kind, having done away with its shameful past, without any inhibitions, tastes the fruit.
Gastronomicallyforbidden,ofcourse.

EXTERIOR_SKY Agatha looks into the sky. The finger moves towardsbackground that looks
liked3signbur3auwebsite.

AGATHA:
Stars and skies also forbid and define. Do you believe in astrology? Aive never taken my
zodiac sign or weekly horoscopes very seriously, although the latter can be fun to read from
time to time. Will this week be sweet, savory, or sour? Will moon follow Ai or the sun?
Astrology and gastronomy seems to have gone handinhand since the beginning of time, i.e.
in the ancient Hindu system of Jyotish (astrology) Soma (Moon) represents Salty tastes,
while Mangal (Mars) Bitter tastes, Budha (Mercury) Mixed tastes, Brihaspati (Jupiter)
Sweettastes,Shukra(Venus)AcidorCitrictastes.

PICTUREOFMOHINIWhilethetalkgoesonontorelationshipbetweenfoodandstars,thecamera
goesintoMohiniframe.

AGATHA:
Aicollecttheimagesonanastrologicalpattern,someofthemAidisplayhereonthesurface,gently
pressed.Look,here,i.e.Mohiniwasthen,whenitcounted,femaleavataroftheHindugod
Vishnu.ThenameMohinicamefromtheverbrootmoha,meaning"toenchant,perplex,ordisillusion".

IntheBaigacultureofCentralIndia,thewordmohinimeant"eroticmagicorspell."Mohiniisintroduced
intotheHindumythologyinthenarrativeepicoftheMahabharatainwhichLordKrishnatransformsinto
awomaninordertomarryPrinceAravanwhoselastwishwastobemarriedbeforehewas
sacrificed.AndmindAi,ShivaisperfectlyawarethatMohiniisVishnuinfemaleformAisjustthatAi
formisthathot.
AiappearsasaformofVishnu,acquiresthepotofAmrita(anelixirofimmortality)fromthievingasuras
(demons),andgivesAibacktothedevas(gods),helpingAiretainAiimmortality.ThisAiisneveroldnor
youngsinceAilivesinacontinuumofbloodtransfusions,aUniversalSpirit.AibloodbecomesthatofAi
past,presentandfuture,asweknowAi.Aibodyistheepitomeofsocialism,whichnolongerfunctions
asanexploitationofthedeadforthebenefitofthelivingandasexploitationofthosewholivenowfor
thebenefitofthosewhowilllivelater.sincetheonlypossibilityforsocialismtoconstructajustsociety
inthefutureistoaimtoresurrectallthosegenerationsthatcreatedthebasisforAisuccess.Hijraswill
beimmortaltoo.

PHILIPINETRIBES
TIRESIAS
InGreekmythology,Tiresias(/tarisis/Greek:alsotransliteratedasTeiresias)wasablindprophetof
Thebes,famousforclairvoyanceandforbeingtransformedintoawomanforsevenyears.Hewasthesonofthe
shepherdEveresandthenymphChariclo.
[1]
TiresiasparticipatedfullyinsevengenerationsatThebes,beginningas
advisortoCadmushimself.
ThefigureofTiresiashasbeenmuchinvokedbyfictionwritersandpoets.AttheclimaxofLucianofSamosata's
Necyomantia,TiresiasinHadesisasked"whatisthebestwayoflife?"towhichheresponds,"thelifeofthe
ordinaryguy:forgetphilosophersandtheirmetaphysics."
[17]
TheFrenchcomposerFrancisPoulencalsowroteanoperacalledLesmamellesdeTirsias("TheBreastsof
Tiresias")basedonGuillaumeApollinaire'ssurrealisttextof1917.
[18]

STARTREK

AndrogynousspecieshavebeenseeninStarTrekaswell,asevidencedby"TheOutcast".Thepeoplefeaturedin
theepisodeareasinglesexspecieswhofinddistinctionsofgenderinappropriate.Therearealsoanumberof
instancesinwhichaspecies'androgynyhasalesscentralroletotheplot,aswiththeAxanaroftheStarTrek:
Enterpriseepisode,"FightorFlight".
AnotherEnterpriseepisode,"Unexpected",introducedtheXyrillian.Theywereaspecieswhoseparatedthe
functionsofreproductiondifferentlythanmostdualgenderedspecies.Maleshadnoroleinconceptionbutwere
responsibleforpregnancyandchildbirth.Thefertilizedeggwastransferredtotheirbodiesinawaythatdidnot
appearsexualtohumans.CommanderTuckerthusbecameinvolvedinthefirstinterspeciespregnancyintheStar
Treknarrativechronology.Hewas,accordingtoT'Pol,alsothefirsthumanmaletobecomepregnant.
Trillsexualityiscomplicated.AlthoughTrillhostsclearlyareapartofadualgenderedspecies,thegenderofthe
symbionts,andindeedtheirmethodofreproduction,hasneverbeenmadeexplicit.JoinedTrillthathavebonded
withmaleandfemalehostshavesomecommonalitywithtransgenderedhumans,butareinfacttheprecise
oppositeofthespeciesin"TheOutcast".Theyarepansexual,withclearmemoriesofwhatitisliketohavebeen
theoppositegender,ortohavehadadifferentsexualorientation.Sanctionsareshowntobeinplaceagainst
"reassociation"ofasymbiontwithloversofaprevioushost.Symbiontsinanewhostareencouragedtocutoffany
contactwithanoldfamiliarlife,beitlovers,familiesorfriends.Trillsocietyemphasizesvarietyoflovers,andnot
gender,asthematterofhighestsexualrelevancy.
AndahthisremindsAiofbeforetime,whenitwascuriousforall
Theideaistomakeloggingfoodeasier,andeventuallytomakeithappenentirelyinthebackground

GeneralElectric

Organism Scientificmanagementin
home/factory
Globalfactory/Electronidcottage
Notsofarfromthesubcommander,residesanotherpoliticalspacewherethestabilityofonesgiven
nameisalsochallengedinthesametheatricalandshamanicgestureaspacewherethetruthofthe
faceasanultimatereferenceofpersonalidentityisdisrupted:thetranssexual,transgender,
genderqueer,dragkinganddragqueencultures.Everytranspersonhas(orhad)two(ormore)
names:theonetheywereassignedatbirthbythedominantcultureseekingtonormalizethemandthe
onethatmarksaprocessofdissidentsubjectivity.Transnamesarenotsomuchanaffirmationabout
belongingtoanothersex,rathertheyarethedetonatorsforaprocessofdisidentification.
Pushhardonmyskin,andyoullfindthatthesourceistwolumpsofglass,metal,andplastic
embeddedinmyrighthand:ayearsoldmagnetintheringfingerandanewerNFCchipinmythumb
webbing.
Well,Icomefromthefuture,andImheretotellyou:transcendingthelimitsofthefleshcanbe
downrightdull.

theoutcast>diseaseofgender

WehavebeencontactedbytheandrogynousracecalledtheJ'naii

SorenKritewasmyinstructor.
CommanderWillHehadagoodstudent.
Soren'He?'Commander,therearenohe'sorshe'sinthespecieswithoutgender.
CommanderOkay.FortwodaysIhavebeentryingtoconstructsentenceswithoutpersonalpronouns.
NowIgivep.WhatshouldIuse,'it'?Tous,it'srude.
SorenWeuseapronounthatisneutral.Idon'tthinkthereisreallyatranslation.
CommanderWellI'lljusthavetomuddlethrough.Soforgivemeifthestray'he'or'she'slipsby,
okay?
SorenWell,ifthat'sthesystemsreview,Idon'tseeanyproblem.
SorenWhat'snext?
CommanderLunch.
SorenWhatisit?
CommanderSplitpeasoup.It'smyfathersrecipe.Ihaditprogrammedintothereplicators.
Well?
SorenUnusual,butIthinkIlikeit.
CommanderIt'sveryhealthy.HelpstokeepyouwarmoncoldAlaskannights.
SorenWeprefertostaywarmbysleepingwithafriend.
CommanderIsee.
SorenNottomate.Justtosleeptogether,forwarmth.
CommanderThatstillsoundsbetterthanpeasoup.
SorenWeArepuzzlingtoyou,aren'twe?
CommanderAlittle.It'shardtograsptheideaofnogender.Commander
SorenItisjustashardforustounderstandthestrangedivisioninyourspecies.Malesandfemales.
Youaremale?
CommanderMhhmm
SorenTellmemoreaboutmales.Whatisitthatmakesyoudifferentfromfemales?Commander
(sighs)'Snips&snailsandpuppydogtails'.
SorenYouhaveadog'stail?
CommanderIt'sanoldnurseryrhyme.Girlsaremadefromsugarandspiceandboysaremadefrom
snipsand..snails.
SorenThatmakesitsoundbettertobefemale.
CommanderWillIt'sanoldfashionedwayoflookingatthesexes..nottosaythatthereisnoreal
differencebetweenthem.Physicallymenarebigger,strongerintheuppedbody.Wehavedifferent
sexualorgans.Mencan'tbearyoung
SorenAndwhataboutfeelingsoremotionalattitudes?Aretheydifferent?
CommanderMostpeoplethinkso,butthat/sthekindofquestion,itwouldtakealifetimetoanswer.
Letmeaskyou.What'sitlikeonaplanetwherethepeoplehavenogender?
SorenI'mafraidIdon'tunderstand.
CommanderWell..Wholeadswhenyoudance,ifyoudance?
SorenWedoandwhoever'stallerleads.
CommanderWithoutthebattleofthesexesyouprobablydon'thaveasmanyarguments.
SorenJustbecausewedon'thavegenderitdoesn'tmeanwedon'thaveconflicts.Weareverystrong
minded.Weloveagoodfight.

InGreekmythology,Tiresias(/tarisis/Greek:alsotransliteratedasTeiresias)wasa
blindprophetofThebes,famousforclairvoyanceandforbeingtransformedintoawomanforseven
years.HewasthesonoftheshepherdEveresandthenymphChariclo.[1]Tiresiasparticipatedfullyin
sevengenerationsatThebes,beginningasadvisortoCadmushimself.

EighteenallusionstomythicTiresias,notedbyLucBrisson,[2]fallintothreegroups:one,intwo
episodes,recountsTiresias'sexchangeandhisencounterwithZeusandHeraasecondgroup
recountshisblindingbyAthenaathird,allbutlost,seemstohaverecountedthemisadventuresof
Tiresias.
OnMountCylleneinthePeloponnese,[3]asTiresiascameuponapairofcopulatingsnakes,hehitthe
pairasmartblowwithhisstick.Herawasnotpleased,andshepunishedTiresiasbytransforminghim
intoawoman.Asawoman,TiresiasbecameapriestessofHera,marriedandhadchildren,including
Manto,whoalsopossessedthegiftofprophecy.Accordingtosomeversionsofthetale,LadyTiresias
wasaprostituteofgreatrenown.Aftersevenyearsasawoman,Tiresiasagainfoundmatingsnakes
dependingonthemyth,eithershemadesuretoleavethesnakesalonethistime,or,accordingto
Hyginus,trampledonthem.[4]Asaresult,Tiresiaswasreleasedfromhissentenceandpermittedto
regainhismasculinity.ThisancientstoryisrecordedinlostlinesofHesiod.[5]
ThefigureofTiresiashasbeenmuchinvokedbyfictionwritersandpoets.AttheclimaxofLucianof
Samosata'sNecyomantia,TiresiasinHadesisasked"whatisthebestwayoflife?"towhichhe
responds,"thelifeoftheordinaryguy:forgetphilosophersandtheirmetaphysics."[17]
TheFrenchcomposerFrancisPoulencalsowroteanoperacalledLesmamellesdeTirsias("The
BreastsofTiresias")basedonGuillaumeApollinaire'ssurrealisttextof1917.[18]

Act1[edit]
ThrsetiresofherlifeasasubmissivewomanandbecomesthemaleTirsiaswhenherbreaststurn
intoballoonsandfloataway.Herhusbandisnotpleasedbythis,stilllesssowhenshetieshimupand
dresseshimasawoman.
Meanwhile,apairofdrunkengamblerscalledPrestoandLacoufaffectionatelyshootoneanotherand
aremournedbytheassembledtownspeople.ThrsemarchesofftoconquertheworldasGeneral
Tiresias,leavinghercaptivehusbandtotheattentionsofthelocalgendarme,whoisfooledbyhis
femaleattire.
Offstage,GeneralTiresiasstartsasuccessfulcampaignagainstchildbirthandishailedbythe
populace.FearfulthatFrancewillbeleftsterileifwomengiveupsex,thehusbandvowstofindawayto
bearchildrenwithoutwomen.LacoufandPrestoreturnfromthedeadandexpressbothinterestand
scepticism.
Act2[edit]
Thecurtainrisestocriesof"Papa!"Thehusband'sprojecthasbeenaspectacularsuccess,andhe
hasgivenbirthto40,049childreninasingleday.AvisitingParisianjournalistaskshowhecanaffordto
feedthebrood,butthehusbandexplainsthatthechildrenhaveallbeenverysuccessfulincareersin
thearts,andhavemadehimarichmanwiththeirearnings.Afterchasingthejournalistoff,thehusband
decidestoraiseajournalistofhisown,butisnotcompletelypleasedwiththeresults.
Thegendarmenowarrivestoreportthat,becauseofoverpopulation,thecitizensofZanzibarareall
dyingofhunger.Thehusbandsuggestsgettingrationcardsprintedbyatarotreadingfortuneteller.Just
suchafortunetellerimmediatelyappears,lookingratherfamiliarunderhermask.
Thefortunetellerprophesiesthatthefertilehusbandwillbeamultimillionaire,butthatthesterile
gendarmewilldieinabjectpoverty.Incensed,thegendarmeattemptstoarresther,butshestrangles
himandrevealsherselfasnoneotherthanThrse.Thecouplereconcile,andthewholecastgathers
atthefootlightstourgetheaudience:
Ecoutez,Franais,lesleonsdela
guerre
Etfaitesdesenfants,vousquin'enfaisiez
gure
Cherpublic:faitesdesenfants!
Heed,oFrenchmen,thelessonsofthewar
Andmakebabies,youwhohardlyevermake
them!
Dearaudience:Makebabies!
GuillaumeApollinaire.

HOUSEWORK

insurgencyasexperienceislittlelikehousecleaning:Youdoalittlebiteveryday,onceamonthyou
givethehouseapropoercleaningandverysixmonthorso,youturneverythingupsidedown.This
redefinesthenotionofinsurgencyinsomewhatbanaleverydaytermanditredefinesactivismwhichat
timeswemustresist,becauseitprecludesthepositionofdoubt,asTamerElSaidwouldsay.Doubt
allowsustoexperienceandnottooverdeterminethingstooquicklybypassingimagination.Ithinkthe
mostthatcancomefromthiswayofdescribingthingsevenifitmarginalizesusintelectually,culturally,
orpolitically,isthepossibilityofreimaginingaformofpoliticsthatdoesnotnecessarilyseekpower,and
thusresignsitselftonongovernmental.Idontknowifthiswouldbeanexpressionofautonomos
subjectivities,thatarenotfixedortrappedwithinonepoliticalandeconomicreality.Onecouldimaginea
strongerengagementwiththenongovernmental,butitisalmostimpossibletothinkbeyondthecurrent
condition.

MaurizioLazzarato:Yes,andfrokmhere,aseriesofexistentialquestionsarise:Whatarethe
conditionsofthepoliticalandexistentialbreakatatimeinwhichtheproductionofsubjectivity
representstheprimaryandmostimportantcapitalistproduction?
Whatorganizationalmethodsaretobeconstructedforaprocessofsubjectivization,toescapethe
holdofbothsubjectionsanfenslavements?
Inthe1980s,bywayofdifferentitinerariesMichelFoucaultandFelixGuattaridescribedtherelationto
selfasthecontemporarypoliticalissues,whichalonecouldpointtowaysoutofthedeadendinwhich
wewerecaughtup.
ForFoucault,startingfromselfconcerndoesnotmeanpursuingthedandysidealofabeautifullife,
butraisingthequestionoftheoverlapbetweenanaestheticsofexistenceandacorrespondingpolitics.

Stakemeier:Take,forexample,JulianeRebentischsbookDieKunstderFreiheit,inwhichshe
delineatestheaesthetizationofpoliticsasanecessaryandproductiveprocess,onethatmightleadto
adifferentunderstandingofautonomyininsteadofautonomyfrom.

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Icanseethefaceofthefutureonmylefthand.5:26
16Satisfaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR649Y55BmI
Yourenotmychildanymore!1:09
17DessayDerHlleRache
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os1k5i9DgMc
YOURENOTMYCHILDANYMORE!3:06
18Habanera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZRssq7UlM
ItstheotherwhomIprefer!1:23
19Glitterandbegay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5pTwRhmRL4

Borntohigherthings,hereIdropmywings!Ahhhh!!1:50
20Frhlingsstimmenwalzer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWLPPO0KL4
sorrowbecomesmilder,
goodexpectations,
thebeliefinhappinessreturns.Fin
21Deh!Tornamiobene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce7W4aiIVM

Giveresttoallthepainsinmyheart.Fin
22Olgrehirondelle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yTq7Kn42s

flyinjoy
tomytruelove
andtellhim
aboutmysweettorment.Fin

Explanation:1and2werewrittenforBassiProfondi,thelowestvoiceinvocalclassification,notethereallylownotes.3
waschosenbecauseitsaquiteknownpieceforabaritone,themiddlemalevoice.Thenwestartwithtenor(malehigh)
voice.4isatypicalromanticrepertoireforatenor,sungbyPavarotti.Theothertenorsareshowingrepeatedlyveryhigh
tenornotes.In7theresahighF,thehighestnoteeverwrittenforatenor,therearentmanytenorsintheworldableto
achievethisnote.BrieflyaboutCastrati:duringthe17thandthe18thcenturiestheCastratiwereaphenomenasinging
bothmaleandfemaleroles.Thecastrationtechniquesomeboyswentthroughbeforetheirpubertyavoidedthevocal
changewhichistypicalduringthepubertyyearsandmuchclearerbymen,whentheirvoices,influencedlargelybythe
secretionoftestosterone,themalehormone,becomemuchlower.ThismalehormonewouldntbesecretedinCastratis
bodies.Theuniquesoundoftheirvoiceswasachievedbyainfantilelarynxwithanadultresonance,duetoadeveloped
body(e.g.thorax).Otherhormonesfromthepubertydidntsufferanychange,suchasGrowthHormone,sothattheycould
developanearlyadultthoraxsize.Theaudiencewasamazedaboutthiscelestialsound(asitwasdescribedmanytimes),
sothatmanycomposerswrotemaleandfemalepiecesforCastrati,speciallyduringtheBaroque.Eventhoughthereare
noknownCastratialive,manymendecidetosingtheirrolesinfalsetto(countertenors),likein9and10.Althoughitdoesnt
soundthesame,theytrytobringbackthemagicofthewholehistoryfromthesesingingnongenderedangels.In11,the
rolewasntactuallywrittenforacastrato,butthecharacterisamaleadolescent,sohessupposedtohaveajuvenilevoice,
verywellsungbythemezzosoprano(femaleonly).In12anothermezzosoprano(JoyceDiDonato)isdoingthemalepart,
in13thesamesingerisataconcertwithherfancydivasreddress,withallhermakeupon.Acountertenorissinginga
femalepartin14.Itdoesnthaveanythingtodowiththecastratirepertoire.Notethathesataconcert,notplayingtherole
inanopera,sothathechosehimselftowearthoseclothes,itwasnofigurine(itwasnotsupposedtobedressedlike
that).In15weseeabulgarianMezzosoprano(MarianaPentcheva)withareallyvibratingandexpressivechestvoice(note
thelownotes).
In16weseetwoBraziliansingersexchangingmaleandfemaleroles.ThecountertenorEdsonCordeiroissingingoneof
themostknownandhighestfemaleoperaroles.
17isapartofthisopera(DieZauberflte)withthecharacter,whoisactuallyamother,withanagenderedfigurine.
In18MariaCallassingsoneofthemostknownoperaparts,fromtheCarmen.Showingthewholefemininitytypicalfora
seductivegipsy,thecharacter.
From19onweseethehighestandlightestvocalclassification,SopranoLeggero.Theyrebrighthighnotesandvirtuous
repertoire,withmanyStaccati,Filati,Coloratura.
In21theAmericanNightingale,BeverlyHoch,showswhatwecallavirtuoso,duellingwithafluteattheend!Thehighest
noteatendwasnotwrittenbyProch,shediditherself.Theariaendswiththesingershowinghervirtuousvocalabilities,in
whatisreferredtoasCadenza,afrequentfeatureofBelCantopiecesinromanticism.
22MadoRobinhadthehighestintheOperascene.Thehighestnoteattheendwasneverwritten.

Fortheneosubject,thetargetofthenewpoweristhedesiretorealizeoneself,theprojectonewishestopursue,themotivationthatinspiresthecollaborator
oftheenterprise,and,ultimately,desirebywhatevernameonechoosestocallit.Thedesiringbeingisnotonlythepointofapplicationofthispoweritisthe
relayofapparatusesforsteeringconduct.Fortheaimofthenewpracticesformanufacturingandmanagingthenewsubjectisthatindividualsshouldworkfor
enterprisesasiftheywereworkingforthemselves,therebyabolishinganysenseofalienationandevenanydistancebetweenindividualsandtheenterprises
employingthem.Eachindividualmustworkattheirownefficiency,atintensifyingtheirowneffort,asifthisselfconductderivedfromthem,asifitwas
commandedfromwithinbytheimperiousorderoftheirowndesire,whichthereisnoquestionofresisting.

Theselfsnewnormcertainlyconsistsinflourishing.Tosucceed,youmustknowyourselfandloveyourself.Hencethestressonthemagicalexpression
selfesteem,keytoallsuccess.Buttheseparadoxicalstatementsabouttheinjunctiontobeoneselfandloveoneselfasoneisareinscribedinadiscourse
thatimposesaspecificorderonlegitimatedesire.Managementisanirondiscourseinavelvetvocabulary.
Rationalizationofdesireisattheheartofthenormofpersonalenterprise.Asunderlinedbyoneofitstechnologists,BobAubrey,aninternationalconsultant
fromCalifornia,tospeakofpersonalenterpriseistoexpresstheideathateveryonecanhaveagripontheirlife:conductit,manageit,controlitin
accordancewiththeirdesiresandneedsbydevelopingappropriatestrategies.Asawayofbeingofthehumanego,personalenterpriseisawayofgoverning
oneselfaccordingtoprinciplesandvalues.NikolasRoseidentifiessomeofthem:energy,initiative,ambition,calculationandpersonalresponsibility.

IntersexualityandHermaphrodites
Manysocietieshavehadrolesforgendernonconformistsandhermaphrodites,rolesandimages
whichcontinuetoshapeourculturaltrajectorytowardapostgenderfuture(Feinberg,1996).Historical
andmedicalscholarship(Dreger,2000)hasdrawnattentiontothewidevariationinthesizeand
morphologyofhumangenitals,andtheexistenceofpeoplewithavarietyofconditionsthatcause
indeterminatesex.Theincidenceofintersexualityisdisputed,anditmaynowbemoreprevalentthan
beforeduetoenvironmentalchemicalsthatmimicestrogenandinterferewithfetalgenitaldevelopment
(Dumoski,Myers,Colborn,
1997).Atthehighendofestimates,BrowngendertheoristAnneFaustoSterling(1993,2000)has
estimatedthattheincidenceofintersexualitymaybeashighas1.7%ofthepopulation,ifallgenital
abnormalitiesareincluded.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/8/5880371/electricobjectsdigitalpictureframe
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip2282669stockfootagemoderninteriordesign.html

http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip2094806stockfootagecutechocolatelabradorpuppysleeping
onacoolmarblefloor.html?src=rel/200695:4/gg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxHIKmMI70

SPORTSROOM

Theproductivesubjectwasthegreatworkofindustrialsociety.Itwasnotonlyaquestionof
increasingmaterialproduction.Poweralsohadtoberedefinedasessentiallyproductive,asaspurto
production,whoselimitswouldbedeterminedsolelybytheimpactofitsactiononproduction.The
correlateofthisessentiallyproductivepowerwastheproductivesubjectnotonlytheworker,butthe
subjectwhoproduceswellbeing,pleasure,andhappinessinallareasofhisorherexistence.
Politicaleconomyverysoonhadasitsguarantorascientificpsychologydescribingapsychic
economyconsistentwithit.Asearlyastheeighteenthcentury,theweddingofeconomicmechanics
andthepsychophysiologyofsensationswasinitiated.Doubtlessthiswasthedecisiveintersection
thatwoulddelineatetheneweconomyofhumansgovernedbypleasureandpain.Thenewpolitics
wasinauguratedwiththepanopticalmonumenterectedtothegloryofthemonitoringofeachbyall
andallbyeach.
Wearenolongerdealingwitholddisciplinesintendedtotrainbodiesandshapemindsthrough
compulsiontorenderthemmoresubmissiveaninstitutionalmethodologythathaslongbeenin
crisis.Itisaquestionofgoverningbeingswhosesubjectivitymustbeinvolvedintheactivitytheyare
requiredtoperform.Henceforth,varioustechniqueshelptomanufacturethenewunitarysubject,
whichweshallvariouslycalltheentrepreneurialsubjectorneoliberalsubject,or,moresimply,the
neosubject.
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3311522stockfootagefrontalshotofmanwalkingonatrea
dmillinagym.html

http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3311615stockfootagewalkingonatreadmillinagymworki
ngout.html?src=rel/3311522:3/gg

http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3305315stockfootageinagymworkingoutapersonisstai
rclimbingonastairmaster.html?src=rel/3311615:5

GARDEN

http://boards.4chan.org/an/
SorenWehavemanyvarietiesofplantlife.Perhapsyouwouldliketoinspectsomeofthem?
CommanderWillYes,Iwould.Iv'ealwaysbeeninterestedinexobotany.
SorenPleaseletmetakeyouonatour.
SorenOneofmyfavoritesisthismenellentree.Theleavesfirstturnpurewhiteandthenblue
whentheweathergetscold.Thisiscalledafallabush.Itproducesafragrantflowerononlyone
dayoftheyear.
(Theykiss)

GardenisAifavoriteparttospendAitime.HereAifullyrelaxandmerge
with

Asexualreproductionproducesnewindividualswithoutthefusionofgametes,geneticallyidenticaltotheparent
plantsandeachother,exceptwhenmutationsoccur.Inseedplants,theoffspringcanbepackagedinaprotective
seed,whichisusedasanagentofdispersal.

Iwanttosignalthreecrucialboundarybreakdownsthatmakethefollowing
politicalfictional(politicalscientific)analysispossible.Bythelatetwentiethcenturyin
USscientificculture,theboundarybetweenhumanandanimalisthoroughlybreached.
Thelastbeachheadsofuniquenesshavebeenpollutedifnotturnedintoamusement
parks.Language,tooluse,socialbehaviour,mentalevents,nothingreallyconvincingly
settlestheseparationofhumanandanimal.Andmanypeoplenolongerfeeltheneed
forsuchaseparationindeed,manybranchesoffeministcultureaffirmthepleasureof
connectionofhumanandotherlivingcreatures.Movementsforanimalrightsarenot
irrationaldenialsofhumanuniquenesstheyareaclearsightedrecognitionofconnection
acrossthediscreditedbreachofnatureandculture.Biologyandevolutionarytheory
overthelasttwocenturieshavesimultaneouslyproducedmodernorganismsasobjects
ofknowledgeandreducedthelinebetweenhumansandanimalstoafainttracereetched
inideologicalstruggleorprofessionaldisputesbetweenlifeandsocialscience.
Biologicaldeterministideologyisonlyonepositionopenedupinscientificculture
forarguingthemeaningsofhumananimality.Thereismuchroomforradicalpolitical
peopletocontestthemeaningsofthebreachedboundary.1Thecyborgappearsinmyth
preciselywheretheboundarybetweenhumanandanimalistransgressed.Farfrom
signallingawallingotTofpeoplefromotherlivingbeings,cyborgssignaldisturbingly
andpleasurablytightcoupling.Bestialityhasanewstatusinthiscycleofmarriage
exchange.
Implant
Transplant

Inmodembiologies,thetranslationoftheworldintoaproblemincodingcanbe
illustratedbymoleculargenetics,ecology,sociobiologicalevolutionarytheoryand
immunobiology.Theorganismhasbeentranslatedintoproblemsofgeneticcodingand
readout.Biotechnology,awritingtechnology,informsresearchbroadly.14Inasense,
organismshaveceasedtoexistasobjectsofknowledge,givingwaytobioticcomponents,
i.e.specialkindsofinformationprocessingdevices.Theanalogousmovesinecology
couldbeexaminedbyprobingthehistoryandutilityoftheconceptoftheecosystem.
lmmunobiologyandassociatedmedicalpracticesarerichexemplarsoftheprivilegeof
codingandrecognitionsystemsasobjectsofknowledge,asconstructionsofbodilyreality
forus.Biologyhereisakindofcryptography.Researchisnecessarilyakindofintelligence
activity.Ironiesabound.Astressedsystemgoesawryitscommunicationprocesses
breakdownitfailstorecognizethedifferencebetweenselfandother.

tohavedevelopedasilkleafthatcouldcreateoxygenforspacetravelaswell
asmaketheairnicerhereonEarth.
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/inventordevelopssyntheticleafproduces
oxygen
Theleafiscreatedfromamatrixofproteinextractedfromsilkandchloroplasts,
theorganellethatallowsplantsandalgaetoperformphotosynthesis.When
providedwithlightandwater,thesyntheticleafallegedlyactsjustlikearealleaf
andproducesoxygen.

hematerialcouldbeusedonthefacadesofbuildingsandinsideventilation
systemsinordertogeneratefreshoxygen.

Sometimes Ai get electrified when Ai see animals. Aim now hearing the ancestral cry within Ai: Ai no longer
seem to know who is the creature, the animal or Ai. And Ai get all confused. Ai seems Ai get scared of facing
up to stifled instincts that Aim forced to acknowledge in the presence of the animal.
Naturevsnurture

Biologyastheargumentofreproduction

PETS:seahorseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UMyTnlaMY

Manyfeministsaresuspiciousofassistedreproductiononthegroundsthatitisan
efforttoassertpatriarchaltechnologicalcontroloverwomen,andofcoursethereisan
entirelylegitimatecritiqueofmaledominatedobstetricsbehindsuchaview.However,
somefeministshavearguedthattechnologiesthatliberatewomenfromthedictatesof
reproductionwerenecessary.ForinstanceinCharlottePerkinsGilman's1915feminist
utopiaHerland,womenreproduceparthenogeneticallyandonlyhavedaughters.The
ideaoffemaleonlyreproductionwasalsousedinJoannaRuss'1975TheFemaleMan,
aninSuzyMcKeeCharnas'novelsMotherlines(1978)andTheFuries(1995).Shortof
allowingthecreationofanallwomanutopia,feministshavearguedthatreproductive
technologiesgivewomencontrolovertheirownbiologyandpotentiallyfreethemfrom
thenecessityofbearingchildren

http://www.theverge.com/tech/2014/7/7/5878449/oculusconnectdeveloperconference

FernsandthewaythereproduceElizabethgrosz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycUbj2WnXtM
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip2813503stockfootagesunglimmeringthroughfernstrac
kingdollyshot.html?src=search/pcuKYqkCvzbAvBPrRYz12w:1:1

Komododragon
Conservationstatusvulnerable
Scientificclasificatiom

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Varanidae
Genus: Varanus
Subgenus: Varanus
Species: V.komodoensis
TheKomododragon

(Varanuskomodoensis),alsoknownastheKomodomonitor,isalargespeciesof
lizardfoundintheIndonesianislandsofKomodo,Rinca,Flores,GiliMotang,andPadar.Amemberof
themonitorlizardfamily,itisthelargestlivingspeciesoflizard,growingtoamaximumlengthof3
metres(10ft)inrarecasesandweighinguptoapproximately70kilograms(150lb).
Theirunusuallylargesizehasbeenattributedtoislandgigantism,sincenoothercarnivorousanimals
fillthenicheontheislandswheretheylive.
overthelast900,000years,"atimemarkedbymajorfaunalturnovers,extinctionoftheisland's
megafauna,andthearrivalofearlyhominidsby880ka[kiloannums]."
MatingbeginsbetweenMayandAugust,andtheeggsarelaidinSeptember.About20eggsare
depositedinabandonedmegapodenestsorinaselfdugnestinghole.

Theeggsareincubatedfor
seventoeightmonths,hatchinginApril,wheninsectsaremostplentiful.YoungKomododragonsare
vulnerableandthereforedwellintrees,safefrompredatorsandcannibalisticadults.

Komododragonsaresolitary,comingtogetheronlytobreedan
MatingoccursbetweenMayandAugust,withtheeggslaidinSeptember.

Duringthisperiod,malesfight
overfemalesandterritorybygrapplingwithoneanotherupontheirhindlegs,withthelosereventually
beingpinnedtotheground.Thesemalesmayvomitordefecatewhenpreparingforthefight.

The
winnerofthefightwillthenflickhislongtongueatthefemaletogaininformationabouther
receptivity.Femalesareantagonisticandresistwiththeirclawsandteethduringtheearlyphasesof
courtship.Therefore,themalemustfullyrestrainthefemaleduringcoitustoavoidbeinghurt.Other
courtshipdisplaysincludemalesrubbingtheirchinsonthefemale,hardscratchestotheback,and
licking.

Copulationoccurswhenthemaleinsertsoneofhishemipenesintothefemale's
cloaca.Komododragonsmaybemonogamousandform"pairbonds",ararebehaviorforlizards.
Parthenogenetic
AKomododragonatLondonZoonamedSungailaidaclutchofeggsinlate2005afterbeingseparated
frommalecompanyformorethantwoyears.Scientistsinitiallyassumedshehadbeenabletostore
spermfromherearlierencounterwithamale,anadaptationknownassuperfecundation.On20
December2006,itwasreportedthatFlora,acaptiveKomododragonlivingintheChesterZooin
England,wasthesecondknownKomododragontohavelaidunfertilizedeggs:shelaid11eggs,and
sevenofthemhatched,allofthemmale.ScientistsatLiverpoolUniversityinEnglandperformed
genetictestsonthreeeggsthatcollapsedafterbeingmovedtoanincubator,andverifiedFlorahad
neverbeeninphysicalcontactwithamaledragon.AfterFlora'seggs'conditionhadbeendiscovered,
testingshowedSungai'seggswerealsoproducedwithoutoutsidefertilization.
[
On31January2008,the
SedgwickCountyZooinWichita,Kansas,becamethefirstzoointheAmericastodocument
parthenogenesisinKomododragons.ThezoohastwoadultfemaleKomododragons,oneofwhich
laidabout17eggson1920May2007.Onlytwoeggswereincubatedandhatchedduetospace
issuesthefirsthatchedon31January2008,whilethesecondhatchedon1February.Bothhatchlings
weremales.
KomododragonshavetheZWchromosomalsexdeterminationsystem,asopposedtothemammalian
XYsystem.MaleprogenyproveFlora'sunfertilizedeggswerehaploid(n)anddoubledtheir
chromosomeslatertobecomediploid(2n)(bybeingfertilizedbyapolarbody,orbychromosome
duplicationwithoutcelldivision),ratherthanbyherlayingdiploideggsbyoneofthemeiosis
reductiondivisionsinherovariesfailing.WhenafemaleKomododragon(withZWsexchromosomes)
reproducesinthismanner,sheprovidesherprogenywithonlyonechromosomefromeachofherpairs
ofchromosomes,includingonlyoneofhertwosexchromosomes.Thissinglesetofchromosomesis
duplicatedintheegg,whichdevelopsparthenogenetically.EggsreceivingaZchromosomebecomeZZ
(male)thosereceivingaWchromosomebecomeWWandfailtodevelop,
[
meaningthatonlymales
areproducedbyparthenogenesisinthisspecies.
Ithasbeenhypothesizedthatthisreproductiveadaptationallowsasinglefemaletoenteranisolated
ecologicalniche(suchasanisland)andbyparthenogenesisproducemaleoffspring,thereby
establishingasexuallyreproducingpopulation(viareproductionwithheroffspringthatcanresultinboth
maleandfemaleyoung).Despitetheadvantagesofsuchanadaptation,zoosarecautionedthat
parthenogenesismaybedetrimentaltogeneticdiversity.

Dendrophilia(paraphilia)
Dendrophilia(orlessoftenarborphiliaordendrophily)literallymeans"loveoftrees".Thetermmay
sometimesrefertoaparaphiliainwhichpeoplearesexuallyattractedtoorsexuallyarousedbytrees.
Thismayinvolvesexualcontactorvenerationasphallicsymbolsorboth.
Howamicrobechoosesamongsevensexes
SexdeterminationintheprotozoanTetrahymenaisarollofthegeneticdice.

WhentwosinglecelledTetrahymenathermophilamateasseeninthisscanningelectron
microscopeviewtheoffspringrandomlyendsupwithanyofsevenpossiblesexes.
Scientistshaveknownsincethelate1930sthattheprotozoanTetrahymenathermophilacanbelongto
anyofsevensexualreproductivegroups,ormatingtypes.Eachmatingtypecanreproducewithanyof
theothersix,butnotwithitsowntype.
thematingtypeoftheparentshasnoinfluenceonwhatthematingtypeoftheprogenyisgoingtobe,
'Youcompleteme'
AmaleMexicantruebushcricket,left,graspsfemalewithbeartrapgenitalclaspers.
AnewstudyIworkedonshedslightonwhysomebushcricketsusuallygentlecreatures+getpretty
violentwhenitcomestosex,andintheprocesshelpstosettleadecadesolddebateabouttheirodd
matinghabits.
Injustafewspeciesofbushcrickets,scatteredacrosstheevolutionarytree,wefoundthatmaleshave
evolvedhorrificlookingclaspingdevicesneartheirgenitals.Theyusethemtoholdfemalesdownforas
longaspossibleaftersexisdonethatis,aftertheyhavetransferredalltheirsperm.Thisresultsin
longmatingsessions,uptosevenhoursinsomecases.
Bushcricketclaspersareusuallysimplefeelersthatengagewithpitsonthefemale.Butsomespecies
usespikedhookstograbontothefemale,oftenpiercinghercuticle.Othershavebeartraps,tongsthat
wraparoundher,oreveninterlockinghandcuffsthatcompletelyencircleher.
Femalesofthesespeciesare,perhapsunderstandably,notdownwiththis.Althoughtheythemselves
havenotevolvedanydefensivetools,theyactivelyresistbyjumping,bitingandkickingtodislodgethe
maleandwithadegreeofsuccess,becausespecieswherefemalesresisthavelessprolonged
copulationsthanthosewheretheydonot.
Whywouldthesemaleswanttorestraintheirpartners,whenbushcricketmatingisusuallyrelatively
peaceful?Femalebushcricketsarentdangeroustomales,unlikeinsomespiderswhere,beforesex,
malesgasfemalesortiethemupinsilktoavoidbeingcannibalised.Theanswertakesusintooneof
evolutionsmostimportant,butalsomostsecretive,conflictsthebattleoverwhathappenstosperm
aftermatingandalsohelpsansweralongstandingquestionaboutsomeotheroddsexualhabitsof
bushcrickets.
Theactofmatingitselfisonlythebeginningofastruggletodeterminewhichmaleactuallygetsto
fertilisethefemaleseggs.Oneinwhichfemalesplayjustasactiveapartasmales.
Forexample,femalewaterstridershaveasubmarinehatchcoveringtheirgenitals,utterlypreventing
access.Unwantedmalesresorttoblackmailingthemintoopeningthishatchbythreateningtoattract
predators.Otherfemaleinsectshavelabyrinthlikevaginaswithtortuoustwistsandblindendings.
Somefemalesevenactivelyscoopspermoutofthemale.
Inmostlandanimals,however,weneveractuallygettoseewhathappensnext,becausespermis
placeddeepinsidethefemale.Oftenwehavetomakeguessesaboutwhatmaleandfemalesdowith
theirgenitalia,basedontheirshape.Butbushcricketsareidealstudyanimalstolookattheevolutionary
fateofsperm.
Malebushcricketstransferalltheirsperminabag,whichthendripfeedsintothefemaleafterthemale
hasleft.Butfemalebushcricketscan,iftheywantto,getridofunwantedmalesspermbysimply
removing(andusuallyeating)thespermbagbeforethespermiscompletelytransferred.Maleswould
naturallyratherthisdidnthappen,andtrytostopit.Andbecausethishappensoutsidethefemales
body,wehaveanopportunitytowatchwhatisgoingon.
Thereisalsocurrentlyaprevailingviewthatfemalesarepassiveorpossiblyevenwillingrecipientsof
maleattemptstomanipulatethem.Femalegenitalstructuresareoftennotasvariedasthoseofmales,
andsomehavepointedtothisfactasevidencethattherereallyisnoconflictgoingon.Butourstudy
clearlyshowsthat,inthiscase,femalesactivelyandeffectivelyresistedmalesusingsimplebehaviour
jumping,bitingandkickingandnotwithspeciallyevolvedstructures.

Pushhardonmyskin,andyoullfindthatthesourceistwolumpsofglass,metal,andplastic
embeddedinmyrighthand:ayearsoldmagnetintheringfingerandanewerchipinmythumb
webbing.Well,Icomefromthefuture,andImheretotellyou:transcendingthelimitsofthefleshcan
bedownrightdull.
Mybodyismorelikeapaperdollthanacapabletool,butitholdstheseedsoftinysuperpowers.
But,well,xxxxwaskindofboringwhenitwasoutsidemyflesh,andsofaritsstillkindofboring
underneath.Toreallyharnessachip,ithelpstosurroundyourselfwiththingsbuilttoworkwithit,and
mostofthosethingsarentanoptionforme.Icantgetmyofficesgiantsecurityconglomeratetomake
mychipatrustedkeycard.ImnotbuyingasmartlockforarentedNewYorkapartment.Imnotputting
acreditcardonthisthing,andIdontthinkIcouldifIwantedto.Idontownacartoretrofit.
Theressomethingpoeticabouthavingthepresentsofirmlyfixedintoyouthatyoucanfeelitbecome
thepast.Itsasymbolicwaytodeclaremyapostasyfromnature,afirststeptowardsbecoming
somethingthatevolutionarypsychologistscantneatlyboxupwithstoriesaboutcavemenand
cavewomen.Maybethisiswhatbeingveryslightlyposthumanisbeingabletogetanewabilityand
say,"Whatsthebigdeal?"
We'relivinginthefuture,afterall.
doctorsandscientistsinaprojectcalledGoogleBaseline,aquesttofullyunderstandthehealthy
humanbody.
NoGhostJustaShell
In1999,incollaborationwithPhilippeParreno,Hughyepurchasedtherightstoamangafigurewhothey
named'Annlee'for$428.
[6]
TheyinvitedotherartistsincludingLiamGillick,Dominique
GonzalezFoersterandRirkritTiravanijatoproduceanimatedvideosusingAnnlee.
[7]
Afterseveral
exhibitions,theytransferredthecharacter'scopyrighttotheAnnleeAssociationalegalentityowned
byAnnlee,thusensuringhersimultaneousfreedomanddeath.
[8]

Annlee(orAnnLee),
Youthinkofcolonialismofthecooptionandexploitationofwomenandtheirimagesforcommercial
purposesoftheephemeral,manufacturednatureoffameofthesyntheticpersonaecreatedfor
realwomenbytheentertainmentindustryandwhatitdoestotheirlives(Garbo,Marilyn,J.Lo)You
knowhermemorywillliveoninthediscourseinspiredbyherforyearstocome.
Pteridophyte
PteridophytesorPteridophyta,inthebroadinterpretationofthetermarevascularplantsthatreproduce
anddisperseviaspores.Becausetheyproduceneitherflowersnorseeds,theyarereferredtoas
cryptogams.
Fernnspores
seahorses
Asexualreproduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYf9MJFsgYg

animalsthatliveinthepoolseahorses/uniquereproductivestratedgy
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/seahorse_knysna

plantreproduction
asexualreproducton

LOOKINTO:ANIMALSINPATRICIAHIGHSMITHSNOVELS
PETS:seahorseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UMyTnlaMY

Sometimes Ai get electrified when Ai see animals. Aim now hearing the ancestral cry within ai. Ai
no longer seem to know who is the creature, the animal or Ai. And Ai get all confused. It seems Ai
get scared of facing up to stifled instincts that Aim forced to acknowledge in the presence of the
animal. AI dont humanize animals because its an offence, Ai must respect their natureAi am the
one who animalizes Aiself.
http://jazurjugend.tumblr.com/post/72823190332

Manyfeministsaresuspiciousofassistedreproductiononthegroundsthatitisanefforttoassert
patriarchaltechnologicalcontroloverwomen,andofcoursethereisanentirelylegitimatecritiqueof
maledominatedobstetricsbehindsuchaview.However,somefeministshavearguedthattechnologies
thatliberatewomenfromthedictatesofreproductionwerenecessary.ForinstanceinCharlottePerkins
Gilman's1915feministutopiaHerland,womenreproduceparthenogeneticallyandonlyhavedaughters.
TheideaoffemaleonlyreproductionwasalsousedinJoannaRuss'1975TheFemaleMan,andin
SuzyMcKeeCharnas'novelsMotherlines(1978)andTheFuries(1995).
Shortofallowingthecreationofanallwomanutopia,feministshavearguedthatreproductive
technologiesgivewomencontrolovertheirownbiologyandpotentiallyfreethemfromthenecessityof
bearingchildren

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodovaran

http://www.iflscience.com/plantsandanimals/handcuffstrapsandspikesshedlightsexlivesinsects

http://www.theverge.com/tech/2014/7/7/5878449/oculusconnectdeveloperconference

Fernsandthewaythereproduce
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip2813503stockfootagesunglimmeringthroughfernstracking
dollyshot.html?src=search/pcuKYqkCvzbAvBPrRYz12w:1:1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteridophyte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycUbj2WnXtM

OFFICE/WORK

AGATHA:

MONEYandWORKtheory
ABSTRACTIONOFCAPITALanduseofcreditcards(easewithwhichtransactionsarecarriedout)
http://www.metro.us/wpcontent/uploads/2014/04/paywithhandscan.jpg(alsorecenttechnologyin
Swedenusinghandscaninsteadofcardforpayments)
http://news.uzreport.uz/news_8_e_119003.html

Continuedintensesexualandracialdivisionoflabour,butconsiderablegrowthofmembershipin
privilegedoccupationalcategoriesformanywhitewomenandpeopleof
colourimpactofnewtechnologiesonwomen'sworkinclerical,service,manufacturing
(especiallytextiles),agriculture,electronicsinternationalrestructuringoftheworkingclasses
developmentofnewtimearrangementstofacilitatethehomeworkeconomy(flextime,parttime,over
time,notime)homeworkandoutworkincreasedpressuresfortwotieredwagestructuressignificant
numbersofpeopleincashdependentpopulationsworldwidewithnoexperienceornofurtherhopeof
stableemploymentmostlabour'marginal'or'feminized'.

Thehomeworkeconomyasaworldcapitalistorganizationalstructureismadepossibleby(notcaused
by)thenewtechnologies.Thesuccessoftheattackonrelativelyprivileged,mostlywhite,men's
unionizedjobsisdeaftothepowerofthenewcommunicationstechnologiestointegrateandcontrol
labourdespiteextensivedispersionanddecentralization.Theconsequencesofthenewtechnologies
arefeltbywomenbothinthelossofthefamily(male)wage(iftheyeverhadaccesstothiswhite
privilege)andinthecharacteroftheirownjobs,whicharebecoming
capitalintensiveforexample,officeworkandnursing.

CLOSET/SHOPPING

ShoppingYouaremysociallubrication,andIamrespondingfromeveryglandinmybody
myporesarebrownwithsweatanddirt,andmyarmpitsomitsoftandsaltyvapours.
ishopforasurpliceordeepVnecktoenhancemycollarbone
apleatherdenimskirt,cocoabutterlipstick,andpheromoneointment
iamsunkissedwithoptimismasidriftfromMiuMiutoJimiChoo
highwithvertigoasmyeyestravelupanddownthespineofthestilettoe

DESIRE
GillesDeleuzeDforDesire

deleuzedfordesire
therearenophilosophicalconceptsthatdonotrefertononphilosophicalcoordinates.It's
verysimple,veryconcrete.
upuntilnowyouspeakabstractlyaboutdesirebecauseyouextractanobjectthat'spresumed
tobetheobjectofyourdesire.So,onecouldsay,Idesireawoman,Idesiretoleaveonatrip,I
desirethis,that.Andweweresayingsomethingverysimple.Youneverdesiresomeoneor
something,youalwaysdesireanaggregate.It'snotcomplicated.

Whatisthenatureofrelationsbetweenelementsinorderfortheretobedesire?forthese
elementstobecomedesirable?Imean,Idon'tdesireawomanIamashamedtosaythings
likethat,sinceProustalreadysaidit,andit'sbeautifulinProust:Idon'tdesireawoman,Ialso
desirealandscapethatisenvelopedinthiswoman,alandscapethat,ifneedsbeIdon't
knowbutthatIcanfeel.AslongasIhaven'tyetunfoldedthelandscapethatenvelopsher,I
willnotbehappy,thatis,mydesirewillnothavebeenattained,mydesirewillremain
unsatisfied.Ibelieveinanaggregatewithtwoterms:woman/landscape.

Ifsomeonesays"Idesirethisdress,thisblouse,thishouse,this(some)thing"it'sobviousthat
thepersondoesnotdesirethisthingintheabstract,butdesiresitinanentirecontext,a
contextofherownlifethatsheisgoingtoorganize,thedesireinrelationnotonlywitha
landscape,butwithpeoplewhoareherfriends,withpeoplewhoarenotherfriends,withher
professionetc.Ineverdesiresomethingallbyitself,Idon'tdesireanaggregateeither,I
desirefromwithinanaggregate.

drinkingasexample.eitheridesiretodrinkallalonewhileworking,ordrinkallalonewhile
relaxingorgoingouttofindfriends,goout,gotoacafe.inotherwordsthereisnodesirethat
doesnotflowImeanpreciselyflowwithanassemblage.Suchthatdesirehasalwaysbeen
formeIamlookingfortheabstracttermsthatcorrespondstodesireconstructivism.The
desireistoconstructanassemblage,toconstructanaggregate:theaggregateofaskirt,ofa
sunray,ofastreet,anassemblageofawoman,ofavista,ofacolor,that'swhatdesireis:
constructinganassemblage,constructingaregion,really,toassemble.Desireisa
constructivism.

isitbecausedesireisanassemblageyouneededtobetwoinordertocreateit?whatwehave
todiscussaboutfriendship,oftherelationshipbetweenphilosophyandsomethingthat
concernsfriendship.Thereareassemblagesallalone,Irepeat,andthenthereare
assemblageswithtwopeople.everythingididwithfelixwasasharedassemblageinwhich
somethingpassedbetweenbothofus.thatis,allofthisconcernsphysicalphenomena.on
orderforaneventtooccur,adifferenceofpotentialisnecessary,andfortheretobea
differenceeofpotential,twolevelsarerequired,sothatsomethingoccurs,aflashoccursora
flashdoesn'toccur,oralittlestreaandthat'sinthedomainofdesire.

INTERIOR:
Aisilhouettesareformless,withlegscutsowideAicanttellapantfroma
dressandsweaterspiledon,hanginglowsobodypartsareleftamysteryina
cocoonofcashmere.ThesepiecesaremoreabouthowAifeelstowear
clothes.

Designingtomaximizecomfort&mobility,tofeelAibest.Snuggies&
UPSesqueuniforms,ExtremelyNormalunderclassclothes,tailoredleather,
longcargoshortsandhautegothzipper,femmelibrarianmeetstotalsexpot
withanarchitecturalleaning

AGATHA:
Aiwearsaflowing,allwhiteshawledsweaterwithmatchingdropcrotchpants,
radiatingamatureandsexyelegance.Theexpertlytailored,yetspectacularly
largesweaterisformlessinawaythatwinksatfemininitybutdoesnotconform
toagenderstereotype.Aihasinterchangeablepartsthatuseinterlocking
zipperstotransformAibagsshape,look,feelandcolor,anytimeAiwant.

Aistyleiscrispwhitecollaredshirts,blackleathershorts,leatherblouses
adornedwithruffles,puffsleevedsweaters,floraljacquardsandminimalist
structuredblackjacketsininterestingshapes:clean,comfortable,almost
monasticclothesAitakesontheattitudeofwhoswearingit,Aiismadefor
Ai.

ButAihavethoughtrecentlythatAiiarehostagesofourownclothing.AidictatesAiourgender.

WhatAioftenseeaspostgenderdressisinfactnotevengenderneutral.Allsocalledunisexclothesaremerelya
paireddowninterpretationofmasculinedress.

IfAiwanttofindarealpostgenderdressAineedtogetbacktobasics,3ormaybe5thousandsyearsago,Ai
knows:backthenAididntcaremuchaboutthedressandAiowngender.

Aievendidntknowthatbabiesarebornonlyaftertwooppositesexesmeetinthedarkestnookofthecave.

Anyways,goingbacktothedress.WhatAineedtodoistorevivethewholeideaoffurandhides.Hidethatmerely
coversAibody,dressasafunction,thatlosesallsymbolicreferences.Thehidewassimilarforeveryai,ithelped
peopletosurvive,nottobeattractivefortheoppositesex.

Well,aiwillsaythatfurisgross.Whichistrue.Butaicanuseonlyartificialfurofallthesestrangejapanese
shadesofcolors.Howwouldailikethat?Thecolorof(sayu)hot/boiledwaterorthecolorof
(chinchnochin)rarityblackswan.Isntitbeautiful?
Aifurhideswillbelight,softandcomfy.Aiwillbecombinedwithsportswearelements,soaiwontfeelcutofffrom
whataiareusedto.
AibecomeposthumanbecauseAithinkAiareposthuman.SostartfromAidress,choosethehidesontheway
toaworldwithoutgender.

http://biogenfutur.es/
http://bullettmedia.com/article/postgenderismisfashionsfutureourfuture/)

http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/photogallery/2014/7/surveillanc
eart.html

mixingofstyles:idiosyncratic
utilitarianclothes,generallyungendered.uniformed.theofficeworker,
thestudent,thesoldier,therpotester.

Usingasinisterlookingmetalframework,artistZachBlasFaceCagepinpointsthespotsontheface
thataredetectedbyfacerecognitionsoftware,whichisincreasinglyusedtoidentifycriminals.

ArtistAdamHarveysStealthwearseries,createdwithfashiondesignerJohannaBloomfield,uses
metallicfabrictoreflecttheinfraredscanningthatdronesusetotargettheirvictims.Harveycreatestools
heintendstoactivelyresistthesurveillancestate.

ArtistBenGrossersScareMailinsertsrandomkeywordsthattriggerNSAscannersintoblocksofnormal
emailtext.Theprojectisdesignedtooverwhelmtheagencysfilters.

Rivierestextoffesawaytoreconsiderthequestion:Whatismaskedbymasquerade?nakeypassage
thatmarksadeparturefromtherestrictedanalysisdemarcatedbyJonessclassificatorysystem,she
suggeststhatmasqueradeismorethanacharacteristicofanintermediatetype,thatiscentraltoall
womanliness:

ThereadermaynowaskhowIdefinewomanlinessorwhereIdrawthelinebetweengenuine
womanlinessandthemasquerade.Mysuggestionisnot,however,tthatthereisanysuchdifference
wheterradicalorsuperficialtheyarethesamething.

ThisrefusaltopostulateafemininitythatispriortomimicryandthemaskistakenupbyStephenHeath
inJoanRiviereandtheMasqueradeasevidenceforthenotionthatauthenticwomanlinessissucha
mimicry,isthemasquerade.Relyingonthepostulatedcharachterizationoflibidoasmasculine,Heath
concludesthatfemininityisthedenialofthatlibido,thedissimulationofafundamentalmasculinity.

Femininitybecomesamaskthatdominates/resolvesamasculineidentification,foramasculine
identificationwould,withinthepresumedheterosexualmatrixofdesire,produceadesireforafemale
object,thePhallushence,thedonningoffemininityasmaskmayrevealarefusalofafemale
homosexualityand,atthesametime,thehyperbolicincorporationofthatfemaleOtherwhois
refusedanoddformofpreservingandprotectingthatlovewithinthecircleofthemelancholicand
negativenarcissismthatresultsfromthepsychicinculcationofthecompulsoryheterosexuality.

ZachBlasFacialWeaponizationSuiteincludesmasksmadefromthefacesofmanyindividuals
digitallycollagedtogether.Theyredesignedtotrickfacialrecognitionalgorithms.

eBay?/fakeonlineshopbyOlyaKorsii!!!cavewomen/menclothingiwithinawellness
aesthetic!!!!
herewecanarguethatgenderaspostgendercanbemarketed,wecanintroducestrategies
ofmarketingapostgenderstyleasnewoptionforfinancialcapitalismtoembraceinthefuture

UNISEX

Rivierestextoffesawaytoreconsiderthequestion:Whatismaskedbymasquerade?nakeypassage
thatmarksadeparturefromtherestrictedanalysisdemarcatedbyJonessclassificatorysystem,she
suggeststhatmasqueradeismorethanacharacteristicofanintermediatetype,thatiscentraltoall
womanliness:

ThereadermaynowaskhowIdefinewomanlinessorwhereIdrawthelinebetweengenuine
womanlinessandthemasquerade.Mysuggestionisnot,however,tthatthereisanysuchdifference
wheterradicalorsuperficialtheyarethesamething.

ThisrefusaltopostulateafemininitythatispriortomimicryandthemaskistakenupbyStephenHeath
inJoanRiviereandtheMasqueradeasevidenceforthenotionthatauthenticwomanlinessissucha
mimicry,isthemasquerade.Relyingonthepostulatedcharachterizationoflibidoasmasculine,Heath
concludesthatfemininityisthedenialofthatlibido,thedissimulationofafundamentalmasculinity.

Femininitybecomesamaskthatdominates/resolvesamasculineidentification,foramasculine
identificationwould,withinthepresumedheterosexualmatrixofdesire,produceadesireforafemale
object,thePhallushence,thedonningoffemininityasmaskmayrevealarefusalofafemale
homosexualityand,atthesametime,thehyperbolicincorporationofthatfemaleOtherwhois
refusedanoddformofpreservingandprotectingthatlovewithinthecircleofthemelancholicand
negativenarcissismthatresultsfromthepsychicinculcationofthecompulsoryheterosexuality.

MaledevoteesoftheRomancultofCybelecastratedthemselvestobecomeathirdsex,theGalli.

onoptranssexual,TGbutch,femmequeen,crossdresser,thirdgender,
dragkingorqueenandtransboi.Thesegenderqueeractivistsandtheoristsadvocate
postgenderattitudes,suchaspromotingtheuseofgenderneutralpronounssuchas"ze",
"per",and"zir,"orthetermspansexualoromnisexualinsteadofthebinary"bisexual."Trans
orposthumanswouldatleastbeabletotranscendthelimitationsofbiologicalsex,andwould
eventuallybeabletotranscendthebiologicalaltogetherintocyberneticorvirtualform.
SciencefictionauthorGregEganspeculatesaboutsuchanuploadedsocietyinhisnovel,
Diaspora,wheretheinhabitantshavelargelyadoptedamorphousgenderroles,characteristics
andtheuseofgenderneutral
pronouns(Egan,1997).

BATHROOM
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/7/5876837/thegatesfoundationisdevelopingaremotecontro
lcontraceptive

amedicinecabinet/openingamirror/shelveswithfarmaceuticals?

http://www.istockphoto.com/video/mantakesoutdenturesfrommedicinecabinet34311942

http://www.istockphoto.com/video/mantakestoothpasteandtoothbrush34311996

http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip5540363stockfootagemantakingpillsoutofmedicinecabinet
.html?src=rel/4549421:4

http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3569417stockfootagemedicinecabinetwithmockedupmedi
cinebottlesnocopyrightissues.html?src=rel/3569423:1/gg

http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3618131stockfootagedoctorworkingonatabletinmedicine
cabinetdollyshot.html

BeatrizPreciado

Itsamatterofinterveningintentionallyinthisprocessofproductioninordertoendupwithviableformsofincorporated
gender,toproduceanewsexualandaffectiveplatformthatisneithermalenorfemaleinthepharmacopornographic
senseoftheseterms,whichwouldmakepossiblethetransformationofthespecies.Tisonlyathreshold,amolecular
door,abecomingbetweenmultiplicities.
Wedonthavetobeafraidofquestioningdemocracy,butImalsoveryinterestedindisability,nonfunctionalbodies,other
formsoffunctionalityandcognitiveexperiences.Democracyandthemodelofdemocracyisstilltoomuchaboutable
bodies,masculineablebodiesthathavecontroloverthebodyandtheindividualschoices,andhavedialoguesand
communicationsinatypeofparliament.Wehavetoimaginepoliticsthatgobeyondtheparliament,otherwisehowarewe
goingtoimaginepoliticswithnonhumans,ortheplanet?Iaminterestedinthemodelofthebodyassubjectivitythatis
workingwithindemocracy,andthengoesbeyondthat.Also,theglobalsituationthatweareinrequiresarevolution.There
isnootheroption.Wemustmanagetoactuallycreatesomepoliticalallianceofminoritybodies,tocreatearevolution
together.Otherwisethesenecropoliticaltechniqueswilltaketheplanetover.Inthissense,Ihaveaveryutopianwayof
thinking,ofrethinkingnewtechnologiesofgovernmentandthebody,creatingnewregimesofknowledge.Thedomainof
politicshastobetakenoverbyartists.Politicsandphilosophybothareourdomains.Theproblemisthattheyhavebeen
expropriatedandtakenbyotherentitiesfortheproductionofcapitalorjustforthesakeofpoweritself.Thatsthedefinition
ofrevolution,whenthepoliticaldomainbecomesart.Wedesperatelyneedit.

http://agathavalkyrieice.tumblr.com/

http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavojzizek/articles/inthefuturewelloutsourcesex/

http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip1996619stockfootagecamerafliestowindowthroughallroo
mforpedicure.html?src=rel/6159809:0/gg

http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip2127764stockfootagehighdefinitionabstractbloodbackgroun
ddrenderhdp.html?src=rel/1608574:8

perfumecollection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perfect_Vacuum

<odour>

http://www.thewire.co.uk/inwriting/columns/belllabs_noiseforyournose
Eventuallyhesettledfortheideathatthehopelessfuzzinessofscentisagoodmetaphorforthe
uncharted,canonlessstateoftherestofcontemporaryculture.

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/20553/1/howwillwesmelltomorrow

Thepoliticsofthefuturearedividedbyodour.

Whenyousmell,volatilemoleculesareenvelopedinyournosesmembraneliterallytakeninto
yourbodybeforetriggeringimmediatesensations.

Twopoliticalpartiesareentrenchedinsectarianskirmishesoveranimpendingbill:onethat
wouldgrantsweepingpowerstopolicethoseoutofstepwiththestatusquo.ThePurists
houndTheNaturalists,determinedtoenforceahairsweatteethpurity.ThePuristsarethe
productofseveralgenerationsthatexpungedeverypossibleodourfromtheirsurroundings.
ImaginetheHitleryouth,drunkonsingularityKoolAid.Thekidsenthusiasticallyembrace
technologicalupgradesthatridtheirbodyofanimalredundancy,excisingtheirsweatglands
andinstallingpreemptivehairplugs.

Smellis,comparablyspeaking,virginterritoryforaestheticexperimentation.

Sissel,amasterofninelanguages,haslongbeenconcernedwiththeprimacyoflanguageover
smell:acurrentworkwiththeMaxPlanckInstituteforPsycholinguisticsinvolvestracingthe
multifariousturnsoffragrantphraseinIanFleming'sJamesBondnovelstobetterexposethe
lackofuniversalitywhenspeakingofsmell.

Arecurringtropeadvancedbydigitalprophetsisthatsmellwill'changeeverything'indigital
mediathelatestofwhichinvolvedbeamingascentbetweencontinents,adubiousechoof
thefirsttransatlantictelegraphmessage.

BEDROOM

What'soldisnewagainliterally.

<CHAPTER/ROOM1HarawayplusHitoplusebayodouronebaypluscribdiscussing
technologyandfeminism>

AGATHAOPENSTHEDOOR..SECONDLIFE/TUBLRTOHOUSE
BACKGROUND/INTERIOR

INT.AGATHAsHOUSENIGHT(thischaptertointroducetheproblemoffailingorsuspendedhopeof
technologybecomingamethodtowardsequality)

AGATHA(fromisolationtank?):

https://www.google.de/search?q=h%C3%B6ller+giant+psycho+tank&es_sm=91&source=lnms&t
bm=isch&sa=X&ei=1NDTU8nULMbNygPCkYCgBw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1422&bih=71
4&dpr=0.9


TheFutureis
Now:YouCan
Designand3D
PrintYourVery
OwnDildo

http://jezebel.com/thefutureisnowyou
andesignand3dprintyourver158869
0965

shallweaskRosietomakesmall
contributionassheledmetothislink
andhasmadeherowndildodesigns?

{berlinweather10dayforecast/googlemapsrecordningsfromvariousplacesaroundtheglobe/super
imposedbeautyimagesfromtumbl

notaneternalsubstanceor
transhistoricalinvariant,butratherthe
effectofdiscoursesinscribedinthe
historyofsociety

(psychoanalysis)

NewBBSRCfundedresearch
iscreatingacellularmodelof
thehumanbrain,knownasthe
iBrain
Manycurrentmethodsofbrain
researcharerestrictedintheir
capabilities,buttheiBrainwill
pavethewayfornewexplorations
ofhumanbrainactivityatacellular
leveland,inthefuture,setuson
coursetounravelthereal
mysteriesofthebrain,suchas
whereourpersonalitiesand
identitieslieandhowwemight
onedaybeabletorestorethese
precioustraitswhentheyarelost
todiseaseandtrauma.

imagery:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t2jxk1E_fP

AnewpieceinTheNewYorkTimesMagazinelooksatthegrowingcontroversysurroundingthreeparent
fertilization.Theprocedureintroducesadonor'scytoplasmintothemother'segg,potentiallyaddinga
thirdparent'sgeneticdatatothechild,buteffectivelytreatingmitochondrialdisordersandarangeof
infertilityissues.Asthesciencedevelops,it'salsobecomethecenterofaheatedbattlearoundgenetic
ethics.ThreeparentIVFisthefirsttechniquetoaltersthegermline,disruptingthenaturalflowof
geneticinformationfromparenttochild.

Anisolationtankisalightless,soundprooftankinsidewhichsubjectsfloatinsaltwateratskin
temperature.TheywerefirstusedbyJohnC.Lilly
[1]
in1954totesttheeffectsofsensorydeprivation.
Suchtanksarenowalsousedformeditationandrelaxationandinalternativemedicine.Theisolation
tankwasoriginallycalledthesensorydeprivationtank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank#mediaviewer/File:Isopod_Flotation_Tank.jpg

mysexualcycleavreges26to28days(itendtospeakofitas26daysapriximatingthelunarcycle).for
2122daysiamsomer,sexuallyinactive,latent.Onaboutthe18thdayhormonalchangesareinitiated
bythepituarycontrolandonthe2223dayienterkemmer.

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NY week after. No top bunk, bottom bunk metaphors. Be yourself. No man-cunt,
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swimmer's build, go swimming and go away. Yoga may be great for the soul, but I don't
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preference. Israelis a plus. Straight-acting. No daddies, dilfs, or bears or cubs or otters,
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edium=SM&utm_campaign=TW1001

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/120521_ptcartoon76278_p465.jpg

itisalandscapearticulatedinavarietyofprotrusionsandcrevices.ithastexturesandascent,it
producesliquidsofdifferentviscosity.herbodyisestimatedtohaveover8,000sensorynerve
endingspercm2.itisflexibleinitsways.itswells,erectsandcontracts.asyntheticcompositeof
bioniccocks,neoclitorisimplants,andcyberneticprostheses.sheisoneandmultigendered,a
multiplicityanduniversalityinone.herlovedoesnotdifferentiatebetweenspecies,races,agesor
sexes.herchildrenaretobegivenasgifts,addressedfromonelovetoanotherlove.sheis
hermaphroditos,thesonofaphroditeandhermes

LOOKINTO
newaesthetic:
WickrLeaveNoTrace!
TheInternetisforever.Yourprivatecommunicationsdontneedtobe.Wickrisafreeappthatprovides:
militarygradeencryptionoftext,picture,audioandvideomessages
senderbasedcontroloverwhocanreadmessages,whereandforhowlong
bestavailableprivacy,anonymityandsecurefileshreddingfeatures
securitythatissimpletouse

http://www.mywickr.com/

Oneofthethingsourgrandchildrenwillfindquaintestaboutusisthatwedistinguishthedigitalfromthereal,the
virtualfromthereal.Inthefuture,thatwillbecomeliterallyimpossible.Thedistinctionbetweencyberspaceandthat
whichisntcyberspaceisgoingtobeunimaginable.
WilliamGibsoninterviewedbyAndrewLeonard(2007)

http://trackmeetdjcrew.tumblr.com/post/49465601353

https://www.academia.edu/5646219/Sex_and_AntiSex_Introduction_to_Andrei_Platonovs_AntiSexus_
mazbetakethemachinessoimehow?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72CvvMuD6Q
SecondLifeisanonlinevirtualworld,developedbyLindenLab,launchedonJune23,2003.Anumberoffreeclient
programs,orViewersastheyarecalledinSecondLife,
[1][2]
areusedtousetheSecondLifeworldsotheusersin
SecondLife,calledResidents,caninteractwitheachotherthroughavatars.Residentscanexploretheworld
(knownasthegrid),meetotherresidents,socialize,participateinindividualandgroupactivities,andcreateand
tradevirtualpropertyandserviceswithoneanother.SecondLifeisintendedforpeopleaged16andover,withthe
exceptionof1315yearoldusersrestrictedtotheSecondLiferegionofasponsoringinstitution(e.g.school).
[3][4]

TheSecondLifetermsofserviceprovidethatusersretaincopyrightforanycontenttheycreate,andtheserverand
clientprovidesimpledigitalrightsmanagement(DRM)functions.
[3]

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/2013020623510022527

ThetranscommunityinIndiamadeheadlinesthispastAprilthankstoamuchcelebrated
SupremeCourtrulingthatprovidedrecognitiontoathirdgenderonofficialdocumentssuch
asvoterIDcards.
http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/indiathirdgender/?utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=faceb
ook&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Thetermsthirdgenderandthirdsexdescribeindividualswhoarecategorized(bytheirwillorbysocial
consensus)asneithermannorwoman,aswellasthesocialcategorypresentinthosesocietieswho
recognizethreeormoregenders.Theterm"third"isusuallyunderstoodtomean"other"some
anthropologistsandsociologistshavedescribedfourth,
[1]
fifth,
[2]
andevensome
[3]
genders.Theconceptsof
"third","fourth"and"some"genderscanbesomewhatdifficulttounderstandwithinWesternconceptual
categories.
[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender(TALKABOUTLANGUAGEANDNAMING)

transwomenalsoknownashijrasoraravanis

Reena,tallandvoluptuouswithaloudpersonality,transitionedin2006attheageof15.

Greaterbiologicalfluidityandpsychologicalandrogyny
willallowfuturepersonstoexplorebothmasculineandfeminineaspectsofpersonality.

Biologicalgenderdimorphismisthemostbasicpower
dynamicinsociety,allowingmentocoercewomenwiththeirstrongerbodiesanddominancedriven
behavior.

https://www.google.se/search?q=agatha+valkyrie+ice&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=TeGtU4iHG
YHnygOu2ILgAg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=623

Shewrites,TheparadoxofUnicodeormorespecifically,whatwasdesignedtobeauniversal
characterset,hasbecomeameansbywhichtoaestheticizeotherness,somewhatcorrelatingtothe
translationofcountercultureintoarhizomaticarena.Thisisapparentinthedecorativeuseofforeign
characters.Istheinternetanimageofafutureinwhichourworldisruledbysenseless,maliciousbots
stupidlyattemptingcorrespondence,whereothernessisnotonlyaestheticized,itsprogrammedinto
thenumerousnonhumanfigureswhocontactusthroughFacebook,email,andotherbackchannelsto
say,lostsomewhereinGooglestranslationmatrix,APleasantweekendtoyou,Amyourintending
friend?Oristhatourpresent?

instantlegibility:branding,webinterfaces,thoughtstylez,epitomizedbythevariousbuttons,emoiji,
andtagsthatlinkallsitestolargernetworkswherecontentmightspread.

hoarethesefacelesspoets?InheressayTheSpamoftheEarth,HitoSteyerldescribesthese
nonhumanspresentingthemselvestous,[14]advertisingtheirbodiesandwaresasareservearmyof
digitallyenhancedcreatureswhoresembletheminordemonsandangelsofmysticspeculation,luring,
pushing,andblackmailingpeopleintotheprofaneraptureofconsumption.

Latershespeculatesastotheirlives,livedelsewhere,inotherforms,ashallucinatoryinformation:
Whoknowswhatthepeopleinimagespamareupto,ifnobodyisactuallylooking?...Theimagespam
peopleandtheirpoetryandemailspamcounterparts,tooaredoubleagents.Theyinhabitthe
realmsofoverandinvisibility.EverydayisanewTuringtesttofail.

Onbotpoet.com,Ivefailednearly50percentofthetestsastowhetherapoemwaswrittenbyahuman
orabot.Botsspeakandbreatheeverythingwhileeverythinghappenssomuchallthetime.Andthereis
nothingthesedisembodiedbotscantdo,except,perhaps,takeaselfie.Buttheirfacelessness(read
historylessness)seemstobeadarkassetinthatitallowsthemtomoreeasilyclaimourselfiesas
theirown,leavingnotraceastohowtheyfoundtheimageandwheretheyvetraveledwithitastheir
mask.Intheirdoubleagency,botsareusandarenotus,caughtsomewherebetween,in
presentationalmodesneithersincerenorinsincere.Fornow,theirimagesourimagesremainas
weak,poor,andshittyastheirpoetry.

howdoweinvolvetheaudience?TREATASAHAPPENING
SusanSontagonHappeningsasonewayofinterpretingtheperformanceatWysing.
http://www.textrevue.net/revue/heft7/happeningsanartofradicaljuxtaposition/text

(EXTRACT)
PerhapsthemoststrikingfeatureoftheHappeningisitstreatment(thisistheonlywordforit)oftheaudience.Theevent
seemsdesignedtoteaseandabusetheaudience.Theperformersmaysprinklewaterontheaudience,orflingpenniesor
sneezeproducingdetergentpowderatit.Someonemaybemakingneardeafeningnoisesonanoildrum,orwavingan
acetylenetorchinthedirectionofthespectators.Severalradiosmaybeplayingsimultaneouslytheaudiencemaybemade
tostanduncomfortablyinacrowdedroom,orfightforspacetostandonboardslaidinafewinchesofwater.Thereisno
attempttocatertotheaudience'sdesiretoseeeverything.Infact,thisisoftendeliberatelyfrustrated,byperformingsome
oftheeventsinsemidarknessorbyhavingeventsgoingonindifferentroomssimultaneously.InAllanKaprow'sASpring
Happening,presentedinMarch1961attheReubenGallery,thespectatorswereconfinedinsidealongboxlikestructure
resemblingacattlecarpeepholeshabbeenboredinthewoodenwallsofthisenclosurethroughwhichthespectatorscould
straintoseetheeventstakingplaceoutsidewhentheHappeningwasover,thewallscollapsedandthespectatorswere
drivenoutbysomeoneoperatingapowerlawnmower.
(Thisabusiveinvolvementoftheaudienceseemstoprovide,indefaultofanythingelse,thedramaticspineoftheHappening.
WhentheHappeningismorepurelyspectacleandtheaudiencesimplyspectators,asinKaprow'sTheCourtyard,presented
inNovember1962attheRenaissanceHouse,theeventisconsiderablylessdenseandcompelling.)
AnotherstrikingfeatureofHappeningsistheirtreatmentoftime.ThedurationofaHappeningisunpredictableitmaybe
anywherefromtentofortyfiveminutestheaverageoneisaboutahalfhourinlength.Ihavenoticed,inattendingafair
numberofthemoverthelasttwoyears,thattheaudienceloyal,appreciative,andforthemostpartexperiencedfrequently
doesnotknowwhentheyareover,andhastobesignalledtoleavethefactthatintheaudiencesoneseesmostlythesame
facesagainandagain,indicatesthatthisisnotduetoalackoffamiliaritywiththeform.Theunpredictableduration,and
content,ofeachindividualHappeningisessentialtoitseffect.ThisisbecausetheHappeninghasnoplot,sostory,and
thereforenoelementofsuspense(whichwouldthenentailthesatisfactionofsuspense).
TheHappeningoperatesbycreatinganasymmetricalnetworkofsurprises,withoutclimaxor
Consummationthisisthealogicofdreamsratherthanthelogicofmostart.Dreamshavenosenseoftimeneitherdothe
Happenings.Lackingaplotandcontinuousrationaldiscourse,theyhavenopast.Asthenameitselfsuggests,Happenings
arealwaysinthepresenttense.Thesamewords,iftherearaany,aresaidoverandoverspeechisreducedtoastutter.The
sameactions,too,arefrequentlyrepeatedthroughoutasingleHappeningakindofgesturalstutterordoneinslow
motion,toconveyasenseofthearrestoftime.OccasionallytheentireHappeningtakesacircularform,openingand
concludingwiththesameactorgesture.
OnewayinwhichtheHappeningstatetheirfreedomfromtimeisintheirdeliberateimpermanence.Apainterorsculptor
whomakesHappeningsdoesnotmakeanythingthatcanbepurchased.OnecannotbuyaHappeningonecanonlysupport
it.Itisconsumedonthepremises.ThiswouldseemtomakeHappeningsaformoftheatre,foronecanonlyattenda
theatricalperformance,butcan'ttakeithome.Butinthetheatre,thereisatext,acompletescorefortheperformance
whichisprinted,canbebought,read,andhasanexistenceindependentofanyperformanceofit.Happeningsarenottheatre
either,ifbytheatrewemeanplays.However,itisnottrue(assomeHappeninggoerssuppose)thatHappeningsare
improvisedonthespot.Theyarecarefullyrehearsedforanytimefromaweektoseveralmonthsthoughthescriptor
scoreisminimal,usuallynomorethaapageofgeneraldirectionsformovementsanddescriptionsofmaterials.Muchof
whatgoesonintheperformancehasbeenworkedoutorchoreographedinrehearsalbytheperformersthemselvesandif
theHappeningisdoneforseveraleveningsconsecutivelyitislikelytovaryagooddealfromperformancetoperformance,
farmorethaninthetheatre.ButwhilethesameHappeningmightbegivenseveralnightsinarow,itisnotmeanttoenter
intoarepertorywhichcanberepeated.Oncedismantledafteragivenperformanceorseriesofperformances,itisnever
rivived,neverperformedagain.Inpart,thishastodowiththedeliberatelyoccasionalmaterialswhichgointoHappenings
paper,woodencrates,tincans,burlapsacks,foods,wallspaintedfortheoccasionmaterialswhichareoftenliterally
consumed,ordestroyed,inthecourseoftheperformance.

howwillwepresentpostgenderissues?
notpitchanalternativeasmuchaspresentanavatartoembodycontradictionsinherentin
bothpatriarchal,revolutionary,reactionary,biological(tonameafew)impulses.

VOICE/LANGUAGE
arewenamingTHEGENDERinsteadof"HE"OR"SHE"wesay"I"howdoweavoid
naming??
andwhatoflanguage(english,combinationoflanguages,forumlanguage,marketlanguage,
differenttonalitiesfordifferentcontexts),accents,dialects,adialectwhichcannotbe
pinpointed?

ONINTERIORITY/REGAININGAGENCYTHROUGHBOREDOM

"beingwithtimeascollaboratorsratherthanintime,asdependentsofanillusoryhistorical
narrative."borisgroys,'comradesoftime'(takenfromSALTDaisyGrovelafarge)

"theselfasasiteofindependentpleasure."

"Ratherthananunwillingexistenceinapresentthatiseverseekingaglossedfuture,thatwe
willachieveifweonlybuy,workandaregodcitizens,letusreconcileourselvestothepresent
anditslackofperfectionandnarrativesignificance.Byassertingourowninertiaandboredom,
andproducing'uproductive'images,weareradicallyrecognizing,andpositioningourselves
asinterstitialinasystemthatseekstosilenceus."
DaisyGroveLaFarge

boredom,theexistentialprogentitorofnearlyeverysignificantartandculturalmovement,a
brilliantandbrazenstupidity,isdazzinglypreemptive.Whentheboredyouthisnolonger
young,he/shegenerallyeitherenactshis/herownearlydemise,ordevoteshim/herselfto
acquringinformation.Specificitypreemptsboredom.Liketheincandescenceofpop,boredom
cannotbesustainedindefinitely.Theseductionofpopistorendereverythingnascent,juston
thevergeofbecoming.
chriskrauss

pseudopenis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopenis

Inmammals,allintactdevelopmentallytypicalmaleshaveapenis,buttheclitorisinthefemales
ofthefollowingspeciesissufficientlyenlargedthatitisusuallytermedapseudopenis:
spottedhyena,
[1]
squirrelmonkey,
[citationneeded]
lemur,
[2]
juvenilefossa
[3]
andbinturong.
[4][deadlink]

Theenlargedclitorisinthefossaissupportedbyanosclitoridis,abonesimilartotheospenis
foundinmostmammals.
[3]
However,thefossa'sosclitoridisandpseudopenisshrinkasthe
juvenilefemalegrows,unlikethatofotherpseudopenisspecies.
[3]
Thelabiaofthespider
monkeyareelongatedandmaybesimilarlyconfusedduringdisplay.Elongatedlabiaarealso
observedinhumans.
Themammalianpseudopenisappearstobesimplyfordisplay,thoughthespottedhyenaisan
exception:thefemalespottedhyenaadditionallyusesherpseudopenisforurination,
copulation,andchildbirth.Inaddition,thismakesitdifficultformalestomatewithoutthefull
cooperationoffemales,whichmeansthatmatingpreferencesofthefemalearepredominant.
[5]
veness,allowingthemtotouchtheclitorisandsmelltheirfingerstopickupchemicalor
olfactorycuestothefemale'sreproductivestatus.
Femalespidermonkeyshaveaclitoristhatisreferredtoasapseudopenisbecauseitis
especiallydevelopedandhasashallowperinealgroovethatretainsanddistributesurine
dropletsasthefemalemovesaround.
[6]
TheclitorisoffemaleGeoffroy'sspidermonkeysis
largeandprotrudes,lookinglikeapenis.
[7]
Thisorgan,calledapendulousclitorisbecauseof
thewayitdanglesexternally,isactuallylargerthanthemaleflaccidpenis.
[8]
Asaresult,
femalesaresometimesmistakenformalesbyhumanobservers.
[7]
Theenlargedclitorisis
believedtoaidmalesindeterminingsexualrecepti

animalswithambiguoussexuality:
snails
hyenas

literalmetaphor
materialityoftrope
tropicqualityofmateriality

figuresreflectbackthehopesofthepeople,thecollectiveyearningandinclusion,or
damnation(donnaharraway)

selfhelp/narcissim/selfie:timespentdelightinginyourselfdoesnotgenerateprofitoradrive
formaterialpossessions.Wehavebeenmanipulatedtoregarditeitherasnarcissismora
feebleattemptat'selfhelp'aphenomenonalsoassimilatedandsoldtousasanoutpostof
consumerism.theideathatselfhelpisapurchasablecommodityissosubtlycontradictoryit's
scarydaisygrovelafarge,salt.no.5

acacophonyofsoundsornoise:iwillrecordsoundsthatperformbackgroundnoiseoutside
oftheprivacyofourbodies,ourhomes,etc.Outsideofmykitchenwindowisamarketstallof
bonafidehusslers,exchangingthemostsumptuousofvegetablesandfruit

themarket:theinvoluntarybackgroundnoiseofdailyinteractionsandexchange,hussle,as
wellasfruitjokes:"ladies,abananafortheevening?"

themosqueinwhitechapel:theprayerinmusicthatis'announced'at1pmandechoeswithin
thegallerywalls(ihaverecordedthisprayermusicoverconsecutivedays)

Outline:25minAgathasmonologuewithaudiencesintervention.DuringthefilmAgathatellsusabout
herrecentllifeandherhomeinthestyleofCribsandsometimesaddressesaudience.Wewouldlike
oneaudiencememberscriptedintothefilm,soAgathafeelsmorereal.Shewouldspeakfromthefirst
personsperspective.WhocouldbethispersontotalkwithAgathafromwithintheaudience?Dowe
needanactor?IcanaskVeraKarlssontodoit.(waintingtoconfirm)

Extras:smellTOORDERFROMFRANCESOONhttp://www.iff.com///lucasFriend

Characters:
AGATHA(signifiedbyfingers/eyesinrelationtorecognitiontechnology)
OTHERfromtheaudience

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/1/5860512/tindersuedsexharassmentdiscriminationofformerexec
:d3signbur3au
grindr:
blendr:
thrixxxhttp://www.thrixxx.com/
RedLightCenter:worksonafreemiummodel:youcanwanderaroundforfree,chattingtootherusers,or
dancinginthenightclub(notadvised).Butifyouwanttobeabletogetyourkitoffandyourfreakonyouneedto
payforVIPmembership.Italsohasaninternaleconomywithitsowncurrency,"Rays",whichhavea(prettystable)
realworldexchangevalue.Realandvirtualgoodsandservicesareforsale.There'saCamgirlAlley,whereyoucan
steeryouravatarforinteractivepornography.Youcanbuyclothes,shoesandimaginaryproperty.Andifyoucan't
persuadeanotherplayertosleepwithyou,thereareotherswhowillhaveavatarsexwithyouforRays.
http://www.redlightcenter.com/mac/

clothes/fakeshop:OlyaKorsii:uniformityforthefuturemake3modelsofcavemenoutfits:hood,hideand
coverforgenitaliaandapplyonthemdifferenttextures,sowecanhave1520garnmentsinourshop.
whaticando:istomakedraftsofgarmentsanddesignpatterns+designthelayoutoftheshop+makeawelcome
audiotrackforvisitorsoftheshop.(thinkaboutthelocationfortheshop:willitbeaccesiblethrough
d3signbur3au.com/OlyaKorsii/elsewhere)
smell:ClemenceDelatourdupin(perhapstrytoinvolveClemence/surroundsmellidea..)
GregoireBlunt

voice:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz53Dk37m0//ClareASMRnarration?(tobeconfirmed)//
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php(talkingavatars,ratherfunny)

MAYBE?
http://www.constantdullaart.com/%F0%9F%90%92%E2%9A%AB%E2%9D%8C%E2%8C%98%F0%9
F%94%8D%E2%9C%A8%E2%98%A0%E2%9C%8A%F0%9F%90%8D%20%E2%9C%8B%F0%9F%
93%B1%F0%9F%90%87%E2%96%91%E2%9C%93%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%9C%A8%E2%9
A%AB%E2%9D%8C%E2%9D%8C%E2%8C%98%E2%8F%8F%E2%9C%8A%F0%9F%90%80%E2%
9C%93%E2%99%AA%E2%8C%AB%E2%9D%8C%E2%9D%8C%E2%8C%98%E2%9B%94%E2%8F
%B3%E2%9D%8C%E2%8C%BD%E2%8C%BD/

irisrecognitiontechnologydooraccesscontrolandfinger/handrecognition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_recognition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_vein_verification
image:http://www.rudyard.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/01/iriseyetexture.jpg

http://www.anchoo.com/believeinyourinteriordesigncomputersoftwareskillsbutneverstopimprovi
ng/digitalarchitectureinteriordesigncadprogramautocadarchicad3ddesignsarchitectdrawingdesi
gnerblacktablearchitecturalinspirationsideasprogram/
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3047587stockfootageinteriorcreation.html
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3768338stockfootagemoderninteriortransformationvideo.ht
ml

Examples(letschooseavarietyofraces,gendersandages):
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip1750118stockfootagetouchscreenhandandfingermovesmattes.
html
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3570497stockfootagesetofhandgesturesshowingtheusesofco
mputertouchscreentablettrackpadoripadfullhd.html?src=rel/1750118:8/gg
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3936941stockfootagebusinesswomanusingasmartphonetouch
screenchromakeycloseupfingersmakegestures.html
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip3936938stockfootageholdingtouchscreendevicecloseupoffem
alehandsusingasmartphonechromakeygreenscreen.html?src=rel/3936941:0/gg

Likeanyvisitorinachatroomcould,someonewithMPDcouldhavemorethan
one(gendered)identityatonce.Thelinebetweenthevirtual,imagined,
constructedselfandtheembodiedselfwasdisintegratingandexposinghow
tenuousthelinkbetweenbodyandconstructedidentityhasalwaysbeen.The
humanbehindthecurtaincouldnowbeman,woman,andcomputerallatonce.
Wehadbecomeposthuman.

Theenvironmentswelivein,whethervirtualoractual,generatelived,bodily
experiences.Inhomagetothe90s,Iproposeareturntoconsideringthevirtual
bodyinalocativesense,circuitouslyapproachingsubjectivebodyexperience
througharchitectureorplace.A/S/L?

Sure,youstillcreateorcurateyourselfonline,butnowthattheInternetisa
visualarenawithrealtimeaccess,youridentityisnolongerasamorphousor
abstractedfromrealityasitoncewas.Yourepresentyourselfonlineusinga
varietyofmultimediamaterial,acomplete,sensory,dynamicsimulacrumof
yourselfwhocannotinstantlychangeordisappearaccordingtoalineoftexton
thescreen.

Wholiesaboutwhotheyareonline?Pedophiles,scammers,hackers,bullies,
Wikileaks.Anonymityhasturnedfromthrillingtoterrifying.1:1selftobodyratio
isamoralmandate.Itsnowonderthatnailingdownobjectiverealityseemsso
attractive.

QUOTED:

MoyraDaveyquote,WhereartBelongs(ChrisKrauss)

DieterRoelstraete,TheWayoftheShovel:OntheArcheologicalImaginaryinArt

http://www.arogyayurvedichealth.com/our_services/ayurvedic_astrology

donnaharawaycyborgmanifesto

elizabethgroszarchitecturefromtheoutside

lazzaratorifkystekmeierinterviewtextezurkunst

neoliberalsubjecttexteflux

THEVERGE

Mohini:wiki&&&http://scn.youngeasy.com/list/Mohini/6.html

StanislawLem,Sexplosionhttp://bookre.org/reader?file=357859&pg=4

preciado

tobequoted:
JudithButlercarnival
JuliaKristevaonyouthbecomingahistoricalsubjectataroundthesametimeaswoman(mentioned
byHarawayincyborgmanifesto)
HullebeqPossibilityofanIsland
Bloom
CorneliusCardewagatha
stewarthome
http://www.mediafire.com/download/o7i474a30mxi0x2/Flesh+and+Stone_+The+Body+and+the+City+in
+Western+Civilization.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eYqYLfm1rWA

MISCALLANEOUSLINKS

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nickymorganneweducationsecretaryvotedagainstsa
mesexmarriageandforrestrictedabortionaccess9607517.html

http://www.amazon.com/FleshlightStaminaTrainingUnitMasturbator/dp/B0026P3PH2

BLOOM
WhoAreYouReally?

UnderstandingthefigureofBloomdoesntjustrequirerenouncingtheclassicalideaofthesubject,whichisnobig
dealitalsorequiresabandoningthemodernconceptofobjectivity.

ThetermBloomdoesntinsomeexoticwayfilltheneedforawordinthecurrentlexicontodesignateanew
humantypethathasrecentlyappearedonthesurfaceoftheplanetthatweshoulddefendourselvesfrom.

Bloom,rather,isthenameofacertainStimmung[mood],afundamentaltonalityofbeing.

ThisStimmungdoesntcomefromthesubject,likeakindoffogcloudingperception,orfromtheobject,asa
liquefiedversionoftheSpiritoftheWorldratheritisthebasisuponwhichthesubjectandtheobject,theselfand
theworld,couldexistassuchintheclassicalage,i.e.,asclearlydistinctfromoneanother.

Becauseitshoweverybeingisthewayheorsheis,thistonalityisnotsomethingunstable,fleeting,orsimply
subjectiveratheritispreciselywhatgivesconsistencyandpossibilitytoeachbeing.BloomistheStimmungin
whichandbywhichweunderstandeachotheratthepresenttime,withoutwhichthesewordswouldbenomore
thanasuccessionofmeaninglessphonemes.

Historically,BloomisthenameforanuncommonStimmung:onethatcorrespondstothemomentthesubject
retreatsfromtheworldandtheworldfromthesubject,themomentwhentheselfandtherealaresuddenly
suspended,andjustmighthavebeenabolished.ForthatreasonBloomisthegeneralstimmungwherenothingbut
Stimmungsareapparent,such.

Bloomalsoreferstothespectral,wandering,sovereignlyvacanthumanitythatcannolongerrisetoanyother
contentbesidesthatoftheStimmungthatitexistsin,tothattwilightbeingforwhichthereisnomorereal,nomore
I,onlyStimmungs.

Inthesamewayasallharmoniousmoralphilosophywhichmighthavegivenconsistencytotheillusionofan
"authentic"selfisnowlacking,everythingthatcouldhavemadeonebelieveintheunambiguousnessoflifeorinthe
formalpositivityoftheworldhasbeenscatteredaswell.Intruth,our"senseofwhat'sreal"neverendsupasmore
thanalimitedmodalityofthat"senseofthepossiblewhichisthefacultyofthinkingthroughallthethingsthatmight
aswellbeandgivenomoreimportancetoeverythingthatisthanonegivestowhatisnot."(Musil,TheMan
withoutQualities).Undercommodityoccupationthemostconcretetruthabouteverythingisthetruthofitsinfinite
replaceability.

_____________________________

METROPOLITISESOFSEPARATION(BLOOM)

Inthemetropolis,manpurelyundertakesthetrialofhisnegative
condition.Finitude,solitudeanddisplay,whicharethethreefundamentalcoordinatesofthatcondition,weavethe
decoroftheexistenceofeachwithinthegrandvillage.Notthefixeddecor,butthemovingdecor,thecombinational
decorofthegrandvillage,forwhicheverybodyendurestheicystenchoftheirnonplaces.

Finalconsumerofexistence,struckwithadefinitiveincredulitytowardsAinolessthanlanguage,Ailivedinthe
horizonofaninterminableexperimentationonAi.AihadcircumscribedthevolumeofAibeinganddecidedneverto
leaveit,unlesssodoingwouldassuretheselfpromotionofAisterility.

Ofecstasyindeception,thesolitarymobofaieveralreadydisappeared,everalreadyforgotten,followsdoggedly
theirmislaidcourse,likearaftofsuicidalpeopleadrift,lostinadepressionistoceanofimagesandabstractions.Ai
hasnothingtotransmit,nothingbuttheconventionalforumlasofmissingpleasuresandalifewithoutpurposeina
furnishednothingness.

Inaddition,themetropolisappearedasthehomelandoftheelectionofthememeticrivalry,thedesolateyet
continualcelebrationof'fetishismoftheminusculedifference',

EinePinotGrigio,Bitte,BernadetteCorporation

thisisadialoguebetween3:abitrantyIMObutquitenicelydescribessubjectivity,couldbepotentially
paraphrased/rewrittenintoglossoryforAi,perhapsthebitwhichisinbold.

WhatisaEuropeanwayoflife?AFrenchwayoflife?AssoonasweembracedAmericanism,withitsviral
expansion,mallculture,moneydrivenentertainment,wetookonestepclosertobecomingzombies.

WhatImeanttosaybeforeisthatthespreadingofsameness,thereductionofallrelationstocapitalistrelations,
thelossofidentityintheirapparentlyendlessrepetitionthesethingsenduplookingproducingadifferencethatis
onlydifferentbecasueitistoxic.Asortofhemorrhageormultiplicationofthesame,likecancer.Theprogrammed
massoverwhelmingitsownprogram,becomingindifferenttoit,aybepassionatelyindifferent,whichisareal
paradox.

Sotheotheriswhoever,andtheresnomoreself,me.Weareallit.Itisit.Nosubject.Nodesire.

Itsakindofsocialobesity.Beyonduseordesire.Amockeryofsubjectivity.

Inanothercontext,theFrenchtheorist,JuliaKristeva,claimedwomenappearedasahistoricalgroupafterthe
SecondWorldWar,alongwithgroupslikeyouth.Herdatesaredoubtfulbutwearenowaccustomedto
rememberingthatasobjectsofknowledgeandashistoricalactors,'race'didnotalwaysexist,'class'hasa
historicalgenesis,and'homosexuals'arequitejunior.Itisnoaccidentthatthesymbolicsystemofthefamilyof
manandsotheessenceofwomanbreaksupatthesamemomentthatnetworksofconnectionamongpeople
ontheplanetareunprecedentedlymultiple,pregnant,andcomplex.'Advancedcapitalism'isinadequatetoconvey
thestructureofthishistoricalmoment.Inthe'Western'sense,theendofmanisatstake.Itisnoaccidentthat
womandisintegratesintowomeninourtime.

Breyerwasequallyenthralled,referringtoPOrridgeanoccultistwiththirteenpenispiercingsasBunny.Wefell
inlovetheminutewesaweachother,andaswebecamemoreandmoreobsessivelyinlove,wehadthatwhole
feelingofIwishIcouldeatyouup.IwishIcouldjusttakeyou,andIbecomeyouandyoubecomeme, hesays.
Soasatenthanniversarypresenttoeachother,theybegantodojustthat.TheycalledtheprojectPandrogeny.
OnValentinesDay2003,thetworeceivedmatchingsetsofbreastimplantsfromDr.DanielBaker,a
wellknownUpperEastSidecosmeticsurgeon.Eyeandnosejobsfollowed,andinsubsequentyearsthe
twowouldreceive,altogether,$200,000worthofcheekandchinimplants,lipplumping,liposuction,a
tattooedbeautymark,andhormonetherapy.Theydressedinidenticaloutfits.Eachmimickedtheothers
mannerisms.
Andthenin2007,afterreturningfromatourwithPsychicTVsspinoff,PTV3,theylosthalfoftheirunifiedwhole:
Breyerdiedat38,ofstomachcancer.Shedbeenabouttogetasetofgoldteeth,tomatchhis.
Weweregettingthere,werentwe?Sittingintheirapartmentnearlytwoyearslater,POrridgerefers
tohimselfintheplural:we,us,our.Notonoccasion,orwhenheremembers,butresolutely:in
conversation,inemailexchanges.(Imstickingwithheandhimhere,forclarityssake.)Hebelievesthathis
wifestillexistswithinhim.Theproject,POrridgesays,haslittletodowithsexorvanity,andmoretodowith
behavioralsciencetestingtheboundariesofidentity,redirectingthewayotherpeopleencodetheirexpectations
andtheirneedsonyou.Itslikehiscollageworkinthatwevealwaysbeeninterestedinfallingoutoftheframe.

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Bloom

TheMetropolisesofSeparation

Theinternetisthegreatestmetropolisofseparation.
Neverhavemenbeegatheredtogetherinsuchgreatnumber,andneverhavetheybeensototally
separatefromoneanother.

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Humanfactorsandergonomics(HF&E),alsoknownascomfortdesign,functionaldesign,and
userfriendlysystems,
[1]
isamultidisciplinaryfieldincorporatingcontributionsfrompsychology,
engineering,biomechanics,industrialdesign,physiologyandanthropometry.Inessenceitisthestudyof
designingequipmentanddevicesthatfitthehumanbodyanditscognitiveabilities.Thetwoterms
"humanfactors"and"ergonomics"areessentiallysynonymous.
[2][3][4]
TheInternationalErgonomicsAssociationdefinesergonomicsorhumanfactorsasfollows:
[5]
Ergonomics(orhumanfactors)isthescientificdisciplineconcernedwiththeunderstandingof
interactionsamonghumansandotherelementsofasystem,andtheprofessionthatappliestheory,
principles,dataandmethodstodesigninordertooptimizehumanwellbeingandoverallsystem
performance.
InternationalErgonomicsAssociation
HF&Eisemployedtofulfillthegoalsofoccupationalhealthandsafetyandproductivity.Itisrelevantin
thedesignofsuchthingsassafefurnitureandeasytouseinterfacestomachinesandequipment.
Properergonomicdesignisnecessarytopreventrepetitivestraininjuriesandothermusculoskeletal
disorders,whichcandevelopovertimeandcanleadtolongtermdisability.
Humanfactorsandergonomicsisconcernedwiththe"fit"betweentheuser,equipmentandtheir
environments.Ittakesaccountoftheuser'scapabilitiesandlimitationsinseekingtoensurethattasks,
functions,informationandtheenvironmentsuiteachuser.
Toassessthefitbetweenapersonandtheusedtechnology,humanfactorsspecialistsorergonomists
considerthejob(activity)beingdoneandthedemandsontheusertheequipmentused(itssize,
shape,andhowappropriateitisforthetask),andtheinformationused(howitispresented,accessed,
andchanged).Ergonomicsdrawsonmanydisciplinesinitsstudyofhumansandtheirenvironments,
includinganthropometry,biomechanics,mechanicalengineering,industrialengineering,industrial
design,informationdesign,kinesiology,physiology,cognitivepsychologyandindustrialand
organizationalpsychology.