Reading psychotropics and ‘biocodes’ in Spielberg’s Minority Report
How might a 'posthuman' account of drugs and texts be shaped? Rather than to drugs, posthuman critique has turned to more 'materially technicised' readings of the body. I thus point to a number of 'gateways' by which posthumanism might initiate a proper critical consideration of psychoactive drugs, beginning with my reading of Minority Report.
Of Code and Complexity: Haylesian Computation and Derridean différance
Critical and semiological readings of code and language—and how they resonate and differ—tend toward 'complexity': both as a writerly modality and as a primary phenomenological subject. In view of this inexorability, this reading considers how 'complexity' might be accessed and/or described by literary and semiotic theory.
