Chapter 6 The ‘Virtual’ Body and the Strange Persistence of the Flesh: Deleuze, Cyberspace and the Posthuma

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Pity the Meat?: Deleuze and the Body 1
4. DELEUZISM
5. Chapter 1 Time and Autopoiesis: The Organism Has No Future 9
6. Chapter 2 Larval Subjects, Autonomous Systems and E. Coli Chemotaxis 29
7. Chapter 3 Bodies of Learning 53
8. Chapter 4 Believing in the World: Toward an Ethics of Form 73
9. Chapter 5 Matter as Simulacrum; Thought as Phantasm; Body as Event 96
10. PRACTICAL DELEUZISM
11. Chapter 6 The ‘Virtual’ Body and the Strange Persistence of the Flesh: Deleuze, Cyberspace and the Posthuma 117
12. Chapter 7 ‘Be(come) Yourself only Better’: Selftransformation and the Materialisation of Images 144
13. Chapter 8 An Ethico-Aesthetics of Heroin Chic: Art, Cliché and Capitalism 165
14. Chapter 9 Multi-Dimensional Modifi cations 188
15. Chapter 10 Dance and the Passing Moment: Deleuze’s Nietzsche 203
16. Notes on Contributors 224
17. Index 227