... of critical “studies” areas and their relationship to posthuman knowledges. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 critical posthumanities immanence ethics of affirmation actual/virtual References Alaimo Stacy . 2010 . Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self...

... Rumor City  861 more than something that complements the reality we call “actual.” The underworld is something that cannot be seen. It is beyond such trivial dis- tinctions as “actual” and “virtual.” It has always been named “the world.” But nobody wants to go there. The reason is simple...

... isfarther away than any external world and even any form of exteriority, which henceforth becomes infinitely closer. 3 Forces operate at a site and in a dimension other than those of forms not the space of extensiveness, the actual, and perception but the dimension of the Outside, the virtual, which...

..., with stopping and starting, activity becomes vir­ tual (anticipated, implied, recalled). Movement and stasis, the actual and Straining to Hear 545 Figure i. Strike (1924), dir. Sergei Eisenstein. the virtual, collide and crystallize in Deleuze s texts as he traces the radi­ cally of such processes, configured...

... using CAD (computer-aided design) software to make pictures glow upon a screen or inside a cybertronic helmet. This is virtual reality, but the chances ofyour mistaking it for actual reality are about as slim as the chance that The South Atlantic Quarterly 92:4, Fall 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Duke...

...Gareth Branwyn Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Gareth Branwyn Compu-Sex: Erotica for Cybernauts Cyberspace is more than a breakthrough in elec­ tronic media or in computer interface design. With its virtual environments and simulated worlds, cy­ berspace is a . . . tool...

...Brian Rotman Brian Rotman Thinking Dia-Grams: Mathematics, Writing, and Virtual Reality I n the epilogue to his essay on the develop­ ment of writing systems, Roy Harris declares: It says a great deal about Western culture that the question of the origin of writing could be posed clearly...

... of beryllium a light metal important for manufacturing airplanes and was in a position to make the licensing of this raw material for use in this country subject to the condition that it would not be sold to countries which were Germany s potential or actual enemies. Congressional opposition which subscribed...

... of Virtually Normal 661 my faith-life, not a revolt against it. Looking back, I realize that that moment at the Communion rail was the first time I had actually ad­ dressed the subject of homosexuality explicitly in front of anyone; and I had brought it to God in the moments before the most inti­ mate act...

... to what it transforms because it is, in some sense, already contained within it; the alterations and transformations it brings about are already inherent, virtually, in the order it upsets. Theater, in this sense, entails the actualization of such virtuality, but as virtuality, not as a new sort...

... or imaginary “mirror-­stage” identification) or even in its phe- nomenological or biological aspect (the lived body), but as it is coupled, both actually and virtually, with the environment. Because of the difficulty of maintaining the boundaries or even conceptualizing the divisions...

... into melodrama. Aylmer, the overweening sci­ entist, resembles less the villain than the tragic hero: in his cata­ strophic attempt to improve on human actuality there is not only pride and a deficient sense of reality but also disinterested aspiration. The story does not advocate total resignation or a flat...

... (instead of existing in a synchronic world, isolated from the actual inter­ actions of several generations of speakers). Virtual environments may not only allow us to capture the fluid and changing nature of real languages, but could also be used to gain insights into the processes that tend to freeze...

... or heightened awareness changing according to perceived or real threats or actual attacks like the bombings in Madrid (2004) and London (2005). In the form promulgated in Octo- ber 2001, as a reaction...

... lifelike behavior in aggregate popula­ tions whose evolution within virtual ecosystems can be used to study the different paths of evolution various species might have taken given different environmental variables. Artificial life also provides a new approach to problem solving, in which the programmed...

... of data, they are in­ stalling nothing less than a new dimension: the space of information. This proliferating multidimensional space is virtual, densely webbed, and infinitely complex, a vast and sublime realm accessed through the mediation of our imaginative and technical representations. How powerfully...

... that this reliance on marginalization as a way of understanding sociopolitical exclusion limits political thought, this article calls for a renewed attention to actual material configurations of social exclusion. Considering ethnographic research with adults with mobility and speech disabilities in Petrozavodsk...

... actually possesses limited goals: (a) to illustrate how post-1500 international jurisprudence led to the ‘‘brack- The Coming Nomos 207 eting’’ of international war, meaning that world war was rendered almost impossible; the bracket or limit is dubbed...

... of the child played in the influential discourse that promoted computer-mediated interactivity. In his account of the progress of virtual reality technologies, Howard Rheingold describes the influential work done by Seymour Papert in the late s and s at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory on making...

... will go and shut it” (55). That the door of the law is closed at the end of the parable illustrates, Agamben argues, an actualization of law from its virtual state (56). In asking his question, the man from the country has “made the virtual state of exception real” (57). His gesture exposes the anarchy...