Afterword: Infrastructural Fantasies

Afterword

For two topics treated in this monograph, there are important recent articles or reports that could not be included in the body of the monograph, primarily because of their recency. The editors take this opportunity to mention some of them here, with apologies for selection bias. The problem posed by the incomplete and possibly inaccurate assessment of the radiation exposure of liquidators is t...

Afterword

Francisco J. Varela was a student and collaborator of Humberto R. Maturana. Their pioneering collaboration on Autopoiesis and Cognition reestablished “processes of living” as the principle topic of biological explorations. This topic had dropped out of the discourse of biology after the work of Jacob von Uexküll. Autopoiesis brought a new framework to biology. I say framework because it was not...

Afterword

Final Fantasies: Virtual Women's Bodies Final Fantasies

In the last decades videogames have become very popular. In this article I argue that they establish a new relationship between bodies and identities. In videogames, the storylines are based on a mixture of other types of media fiction, where women’s bodies are overrepresented and stereotypical, because of the market logic underlying these new media productions, which target a wide audience. Ne...

Fireside Fantasies

the United Provinces? The rice in their diet may give them an excess of carbon but the dal does not appear to provide anything like a sufficiency of protein (containing nitrogen). For days together they will dispense with it altogether and live on rice made acceptable with chilli paste. Does the dal provide them with the subtle nitrogen binding factor which enables the natural order of plants p...