(Auto)Immunity: The Deconstruction and Politics of ‘Bio-art’ and Criticism
2010; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 16; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13534645.2010.508652
ISSN1460-700X
Autores Tópico(s)Science Education and Perceptions
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 For a good introduction to Bio-Art, see Eduardo Kac (ed.), Signs of Life: Bio/Art and Beyond (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2006). See also Eugene Thacker, ‘Data Made Flesh: Biotechnology and the Discourse of the Posthuman’, Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003), pp.72-97. Natach Vita-More, ‘Brave BioArt 2: shedding the bio, amassing the nano, nad cultivating posthuman life’, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 5: 3 (2007), pp.171-186. Eduardo Kac, Telepresence and bio art: networking humans, rabbitsand robots (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005). 2 See the Critical Art Ensemble website: < http://www.critical-art.net/home.html> (accessed April 25 2010). 3 For generic criticisms around bio-art see, for example, Steve Tomasula, ‘Genetic Art and the Aesthetics of Biology’, LEONARDO, 35: 2 (2002), pp.137-144; and Mojca Puncer, ‘Artistic Research on Life Forms: Exploring the Intersections of Science, Art and Life in the Context of Globalisation’, LEONARDO, 41: 5 (2008), pp.468-477. 4 In 2008 I attended this bio-art exhibition as well as the symposium on this exhibition, which was held at the University of Illinois, Chicago. 5 Andrew Yang and Christa Donner, ‘Biological Agents’, Curators Catalogue (2008), p.1. 6 Andrew Yang and Christa Donner, ‘Biological Agents’, Curators Catalogue (2008), p.4. 7 Andrew Yang and Christa Donner, ‘Biological Agents’, Curators Catalogue (2008), p.1. 8 Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils’, Diacritics (Fall 1983), pp.3-21. 9 Jacques Derrida, ‘Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides – A Conversation with Jacques Derrida’, Philosophy in the Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, ed. Giovanna Borradori (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2003), p.94. For other works where Derrida discusses his neologism ‘autoimmunity’ see: Jacques Derrida, ‘Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of “Religion” at the Limits of Reason Alone’, in Religion, eds. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp.1-78; Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2005); Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship, trans. George Collins (London and New York: Verso Press, 1997). 10 Caitlin Berrigan, < http://caitlinberrigan.com/> (Accessed 21/04/2010). 11 Andrew Yang and Christa Donner, ‘Biological Agents’, Curators Catalogue (2008), p.2. 12 All images of the art exhibition and artworks and installations found at the Gallery website have been photographed by Christa Donner 2008, Curator of Gallery 400, Chicago. 13 J. Hillis Miller ‘Anachronistic Reading’ in Derrida Today Vol 3, Number 1 (May 2010), pp.87-88. 14 Brandon Ballangée < http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_content/ct_id-28_artist_id-19.html> or < http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_ index/artist_id-19.html> (Accessed 21/04/2010) 15 To view Brandon Ballengée's stained frog skeletons, see images 5 and 6 at the Gallery 400 website: < http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit-past.htm> 16 Andrew Yang and Christa Donner, ‘Biological Agents’, Curators Catalogue (2008), p.2. 17 Environmental Health Clinic: < http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/environmental-health-clinic/> (Accessed 21/04/2010). For more about Jeremijenko's work see: < http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/people/natalie-jeremijenko/ (Accessed 21/04/2010). 18 Andrew Yang and Christa Donner, ‘Biological Agents’, Curators Catalogue (2008), p.3. To view ‘Keeing TaBs’ see images 7, 8, 13, 15 and 16, at the Gallery 400 website: < http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit-past.htm> 19 See images 17-24 at the Gallery 400 website: < http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit-past.htm> 20 Andrew Yang and Christa Donner, ‘Biological Agents’, Curators Catalogue (2008), p.4. 21 Project Biocultures: < http://www.biocultures.org/index2.php/> (Accessed 25/04/2010). 22 To view ‘Ballangee's specimens’ see image 4 at the Gallery 400 website: < http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit-past.htm> 23 At the Biocultures Symposium in April 2010: ‘BioPower and BioArt’, in which Andrew Yang and myself were key speakers in the morning session, Andrew Yang confirmed my interpretation that the Petri-dish presentation of the frog skeletons reproduced the objective and autonomous positioning of the audience, acknowledging that the lighting in the gallery was deliberately constructed as stark and clinical, and the spacing of the exhibits was minimalist, precisely to produce in the audience a perception of a scientific clinic. 24 Jacques Derrida and Elizabeth Roudinesco, For What Tomorrow…A Dialogue (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004), p.65. 25 Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (New York and London: Routledge, 1978), p.166. 26 Immanuel Kant, ‘The Metaphysics of Morals’, Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, ed. J.B. Schneewind (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p.659. 27 Matthew Arnold, The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (Kessinger Publishing, 2004) 28 Vicki Kirby, ‘Natural Convers(at)ions: or, what if culture was really nature all along?’, Material Feminisms, eds. Stacey Alaimo and Susan Hekman (Indiana University Press: Bloomington and Indiana, 2008), pp.214-236 29 Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: the evidence for evolution (Bantam Press, 2009), p.73. 30 Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: the evidence for evolution (Bantam Press, 2009), p.71. 31 This being the case then, as Vicki Kirby again suggests, ‘our understanding of agency and intentionality’ must be ‘reconceived accordingly. This means that actors [subjects] no longer appear as fixed entities’, but that ‘matter and form [here also read human form] is mutually enabled’, in Vicki Kirby, ‘Natural Convers(at)ions: or, what if culture was really nature all along?’, Material Feminisms, eds. Stacey Alaimo and Susan Hekman (Indiana University Press: Bloomington and Indiana, 2008), pp.226-227. 32 Walter Benjamin in Andrew Benjamin, ‘Another Naming: a Living Animal: Blanchot's Community’, SubStance #117, Vol. 37, no. 3, 2008, p.223. 33 Andrew Benjamin, ‘Another Naming: a Living Animal: Blanchot's Community’, SubStance #117, Vol. 37, no. 3, 2008, p.223. 34 G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right, trans. T. M. Knox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975). 35 Andrew Benjamin, ‘Indefinite Play and “The Name of Man”’, Derrida Today Vol 1: 1 (May 2008), p.6. 36 Andrew Benjamin, ‘Indefinite Play and “The Name of Man”’, Derrida Today Vol 1: 1 (May 2008), p 18. See also Andrew Benjamin, ‘Another Naming: a Living Animal: Blanchot's Community’, SubStance #117, Vol. 37, no. 3, 2008. 37 Jacques Derrida, Resistances of Psychoanalysis, trans. Peggy Kamuf, Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press 1998), p.28. See also Jacques Derrida, ‘Difference’ in Speech and Phenomena: and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs, trans. David B. Allison (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973); Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, trans. A. Bass (London and New York: Routledge Press, 1995). 38 Jacques Derrida & Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘“Eating Well”, or the Calculation of the Subject: An Interview with Jacques Derrida’, in Who Comes After the Subject?, eds. E. Cadava, P. Connor & J-L. Nancy (Routledge Press: New York & London, 1991), p.100. For further discussion of these effects see Nicole Anderson, ‘Eating the Other: deconstructing the “ethics” of cannibalism’ in Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp.68-77. 39 Roberto Esposito, Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy, trans. Timothy Campbell (Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), pp.23-24. 40 For discussions about humans as virus, or living with viruses, see Luciana Parisi, ‘Biotech: Life by Contagion’, Theory Culture Society 24: 6 (2007), pp.29-52, and Kelly Oliver, ‘The Good Infection’, Parallax 11: 3 (2005), pp.87-98. 41 Jacques Derrida, ‘The Ends of Man’, Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), p.126. 42 Jacques Derrida, ‘Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides’, Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, ed. Giovanna Borridori (University of Chicago Press, 2003), p.152. 43 Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils’, Diacritics (Fall 1983), p.8. 44 Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils’, Diacritics (Fall 1983), p.16. 45 Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2005), p.152. 46 Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils’, Diacritics (Fall 1983), pp.18-19. See also Derrida's Writing and Difference, trans. A. Bass. (London and New York: Routledge Press), where he talks about difference being internal to reason itself, what he calls dissension to describe ‘a self-dividing action, a cleavage and torment interior to meaning in general, interior to logos in general... As always the dissension is internal, the exterior (is) the interior, is the fission that produces and divides it’ (pp.38-39). 47 Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils’, Diacritics (Fall 1983), p.16. 48 Jacques Derrida, ‘Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of “Religion” at the Limits of Reason Alone’, in Religion, eds. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp.72-73. 49 Timothy Campbell, ‘Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito’, Diacritics 36: 2 (Summer 2006), p.8 50 Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2005), p.152. 51 Michael Naas, Derrida From Now On (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), p.131. 52 See Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1981). 53 Claire Colebrook, ‘Creative Evolution and the Creation of Man’, Journal of Southern Philosophy 48, Spindel supplement (Sept 2010), pp.109-132, quoted in Nicole Anderson ‘Supplementing Claire Colebrook: A Response to “Creative Evolution and the Creation of Man”’, Journal of Southern Philosophy 48, Spindel supplement (Sept 2010), p.143. 54 Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils’, Diacritics (Fall 1983), pp.18-19.
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