| Representation | Simulation |
| Bourgeois novel, realism | Science fiction, postmodernism |
| Organism | Biotic component |
| Depth, integrity | Surface, boundary |
| Heat | Noise |
| Biology as clinical practice | Biology as inscription |
| Physiology | Communications engineering |
| Small group | Subsystem |
| Perfection | Optimization |
| Eugenics | Population control |
| Decadence, Magic Mountain | Obsolescence, Future Shock |
| Hygiene | Stress Management |
| Microbiology, tuberculosis | Immunology, AIDS |
| Organic division of labour | Ergonomics/cybernetics of labour |
| Functional specialization | Modular construction |
| Reproduction | Replication |
| Organic sex role specialization | Optimal genetic strategies |
| Biological determinism | Evolutionary inertia, constraints |
| Community ecology | Ecosystem |
| Racial chain of being | Neo-imperialism, United Nations humanism |
| Scientific management in home/factory | Global factory / electronic cottage |
| Home / market / factory | Women in the Integrated Circuit |
| Family wage | Comparable worth |
| Public / Private | Cyborg citizenship |
| Nature / Culture | Fields of difference |
| Co-operation | Communications enhancement |
| Freud | Lacan |
| Sex | Genetic engineering |
| Labour | Robotics |
| Mind | Artificial Intelligence |
| Second World War | Star Wars |
| White Capitalist Patriarchy | Informatics of Domination |
See Donna Haraway’s [Provocative leader]: [Three legged follow]
For less stressed and perhaps more immediate and clear political discussion straight from heartland, no detours through Santa Cruz or crystal junction, see “Another Blog is Possible.”
p.s. I was making it up about Trotsky’s death by Celeriac. He was found face down in a bowl of mashed potatoes. Has it been three score and seven years already? can we have a sense of humour about this, please people?
p.p.s. How do you address “theory” and postmodernism when the naming itself is so absurdly circular and one knows that whatever’s happening is post-the-movement-formerly-known-as-pomo? Having asked this question for years and years, I never thought the answer would be important to me. Oh, the shame of it all. “desire’s raison d’etre is not to realize its goal, to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire.” Can you have Lacan without Zizek?
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