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• In Media Res
  Re: “A More Vital Communication”: Telepathic Hallucination and the Proto-Posthuman Event

  Context for the slides

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  r.d. crano Ohio State University, Department of Comparative Studies

  Friday, March 11, 2011 — 11:18 pm

  Thanks for your feedback, Drew. These slides are the product of "experimental" attempts to replay the forces at work in the "spontaneous" telepathy of the crisis or death experience. So the communication is taking place between individ ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Portrait of a Posthuman

  Agamben on fashion

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  r.d. crano Ohio State University, Department of Comparative Studies

  Friday, March 11, 2011 — 2:05 am

  In case you're not already familiar with this, Agamben has some very interesting things to say about the temporality of fashion in his essay "What is the Contemporary?" For him, fashion exemplifies a "special experience of time" a ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Dog Wants Cupcakes: A Brief Reflection on the Emergence of the Face

  horror story as ethical epiphany

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  r.d. crano Ohio State University, Department of Comparative Studies

  Tuesday, March 8, 2011 — 5:53 pm

  One thing that has always struck me in D+G's various discussions of "becoming" (e.g. becoming-animal) is their vague references to "particle emission." What sort of particles are emitted here? Salivary particles. A gaze. An image ...