Wetwares
admin November 7th, 2009
2-3 a way of distributing bodies
4 D&G machines
weapons and tools
5 weapons as agents of deterritorialization/tools as components of territorialization
7 the not doing of the warrior
familiars – zone of interactivity b/w humans and animals
9 alife creatures are familiars
how is something alive? When will I know? Artificial life disturbs
panic is one actant
10 the refrain
encounters w/panic are fostered by counterintuitive ethos subtraction
12 familiar proceeds when identity resides in no specific place or time
- neither here or there – the virtual
13 attentiveness – indiscernibility
less a failure of observation than the production and capacity for indiscernibility
14 borders bw humans and animals
15 observation is exposure to the swarm
itinerant observation – blocking of self and opening to swarm of possibilities
17 technoscience struggles – and there is a slash, a cut that connects – science fiction
19 transforming organisms
simulacra that are not models of life but are life
20 artificial life transforms the notion of life
living systems as distributed events
rhetorical softwares become elements in the network through which artificial life becomes lively
21 life conflated w/information
biologists don’t study life, they study living systems
23 rhetorical softwares – these formulations don’t construct scientific objects so much as discipline them
how can something that dwells in the virtual (not a place) be rendered?
*24 all scientific practices are comported by their rhetorical softwares
challenge is to determine the specific rhetorical mechanisms that enable narration and instantiation of some versions of artificial life – a wetware ribotype
alife are not fake – copies w/out original – don’t refer but provoke a feeling
25 abduction
27 what way are natural organisms alive?
28 life not as stuff, but as effect
29 success depends on representing life to human wetware
blockage of self alife precedes
32 what makes alife life is human affect
33 alife organisms and humans form interaction
37 autopoietic machines work on themselves – make possible the dislodging of life from any organic location
40 the becoming flesh of silicon
• 42 as life ceases to be confined to the interiority of a body and becomes capable of inhabiting locations b/w bodies: networks
43 cryonics- where body persists after needed
lines of flight
49 networked movement of the real to the screen has altered various practices – forming tangled feedback loop w/object allegedly contained within the screen: wetwares
50 perspective and identity are media of response
53 in SimLife what is reproduces are not creatures but affective states
55 representation is a rhetoric that allows organisms to be understood
56 the screen distributes vitality effect
57 vitality emerges through invisibility of networks
59 how does one inseminate a machine?
62 while it seems a memorial to autonomy, the cryonic corpse is a body of frenzy
65 cryonics are networked w/a futurity
cryonics is intimate w/nanotechnology (Virilio)
66 if identity is a set of becomings, it is only in becoming frozen that becoming itself is frozen
67 problem of other is a problem of information
the virtual body
70 to own one’s body involves code – legal code
75 the body AS code – a revival of cryonic body relies on what those of us in the past do not know and cannot inscribe
subjectivity is iteration
an encounter w/becomings other than freezing – becoming static
76 subjectivity demands difference
the notion that a SECRET can be retrieved even after its destruction depends upon an original existence of the secret
77 if cryonics is in the business of producing a virtual body, it is a body of anticipation
78 death is acceleration of treatment of cryonic body
79 cryonics as natural – as a need to slow down
84 w/derivatives, the loss of reference and production of anticipation
85 a cause from the future, not absent
exotic derivatives don’t produce meaning, they produce anticipation
86 cryonic body is the thought of a subject for whom the uncertain future of capital is articulable
94 interstice of time image is anticipatory period of waiting
95 transform life into information
99 time cuts are concerned with futures
103 for whom is the dead body a sign?
109 transhuman
110 to be free of error (emotional, physical, etc)
111 to be transhuman would be to invent a new form of relation, thought beyond the individual
113 Burroughs – mutation does not result from logical choices
114 self in body or ecology
116 cryonics as to do defferal differently
120 not so clear what a machine is
organism / machine is POSTVITAL (vitalism)
organisms are now moments, nodes in networks (no interior vs exterior)
122 the rhetorical plane of Technoscience – living systems simulate the flow of information
one rhetorical effect fostered to code was mobility – deterritorialization
mobile rendering of organism launches a redistribution of vitality
123 repetition and materiality – iterations
in Blade Runner, life is found wanting – lack
125 how does uploading broker new alignments of information, bodies, and subjectivity
128 itineration – encounter with inhuman
129 contemporary technologies provoke something other than authentic, individual self
identity through transformation and adaption
130 to become other, adrift
dislocation through anticipation
131 practices of everyday life composed as anticipation
virtualities may lack reference, but this is becoming – where new capacities are affected and emerge
value constituted by future
134 uploading installs anticipation of externalized self
like writing
135 uploading composes “collective enunciation”
exotic derivative is algorithm whose execution is deferred into the future
137 research into nanotechnology and uploading becomes a remedy for blindness (opposite of Virilio)
138 uploading highlights necessity of contingency
simulation – what software is capable of becoming
139 uploads as space where bodies are nodes in new becomings
140 uploading networked w/other uploads
uploads don’t render original, they connect
*becoming sampled marks new ecology of subjectivity
145 being sampled
149 how ambiguity and contingency (brain death) is managed in narratives of body
152 waiting – a practice of the interval
153 interruption as what the future does
156 rhetorics of coma speak in registry of family (familiar)
family as algorithm
157 comatose body is a virtual one
158 when a medium (like Johnny) is neither active nor passive/ distributes agency articulates connections
159 betweeness has its benefits
166 living tissues (for transplant) networked w/differential futures
organs become concepts
168 spinoza – we don’t know what a body can do
169 desire in comatose pregnancy case – does not refer, it promises capacity to be affected and transformed
a family narrative carries it
174 I want to start first futures market in human organs
*182 to deterritorialize something is to connect an entity to elsewhere
183 computers have become deterritorialized
186 wetwares titles an encounter with flesh as refrain
continually encountering drifts and turbulences
187 Burroughs offered recipes for becoming
188 organisms as topoi of information exchange
194 the becoming icon of the alien
sampling – the continual possibility of being sampled
an ontological condition
195 the rumor
evolution functioning by proliferation – thriving on copy more as it eats away at interiority
196 alien abduction exemplifies new practices of citationality – such as sampling of DNA
197 one report spawns another and another – crowd logic
198 alien phenomenon are better understood as proliferating packs than incorporating crowds
-199 more associated with swarm behavior (crowd believes the same MAFFESOLI) than with individual belief
200 grafting abduction onto encounter w/capacities of informatic bodies
201 to be floated
202-3 Sokal abducted a theory – result was iteration – repetition w/change
208 Philip Dick – proliferation w/out origin
212 algorithm to differ, to sample, to be sampled
213 encounter of fourth kind – abduction. Alien (metaphoric?) abduction
with alien thought
215 thinking always in contact with an outside (inside/outside conflates)
215 shattering and disabling reproduction of interiority
unheimlich effects (Barthes uses same word)
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