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Notes
1 Sting, “Fortress Around Your Heart.”
2 Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body, 31.
3 Levinas, “The Trace of the Other,” 346.
4 Derrida, Adieu – to Emmanuel Levinas, 48-50.
5 Ibid., 95.
6 Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present, 589ff.
7 Napier, The Age of Immunity: Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World, 3.
8 Ibid.
9 Jackson, Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady, 9.
10 Napier, “Introduction,” 118-21.
11 Ibid., 118.
12 Anderson and Mackay, Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity, 3.
13 Ibid., 2-3.
14 Ibid., 6.
15 Goffey, “Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique,” 9.
16 Esposito, Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy, 51.
17 Cf. Campbell, Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben, 88.
18 Derrida, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason, 152.
19 Cf. Naas, Derrida From Now On, 32-33 and 124ff.
20 Napier, “Introduction,” 118.
21 Haraway, “The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse,” 203-54.
22 Ibid., 204.
23 Ibid., 204-5.
24 Ibid., 208.
25 Ibid., 211.
26 Jamieson, “The Politics of Immunity: Reading Cohen Through Canguilhem and New Materialism,” 2.
27 Cohen, “My self as an other: on autoimmunity and ‘other’ paradoxes,” 10.
28 Ibid., 11.
29 Cf. Doyle, “Allergies of Reading: DNA, Language, and the Problem of Origins,” 86-108.
30 Kirby, “Natural Conversations or What if Nature Was Really Culture All Along?” 214–236.
31 Rosenberg and Zilber-Rosenberg, The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota, vii.
32 See my forthcoming article on “Microbes,” in Turner, Broglio and Sellbach, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (forthcoming in 2017).
33 Mitchell, Contagious Metaphor, 1.
34 Jussi Parikka’s phrase, quoted in Mitchell, Contagious Metaphor, 8.
35 Mitchell, Contagious Metaphor, 6.
36 Derrida, Dissemination, 149.
37 Sampson, Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks, 1.
38 Ibid., 3.
39 Ibid., 12.
40 Thacker, Biomedia.
41 Esposito, quoted in Campbell, Improper Life, 101.
42 Campbell, Improper Life, 101.
43 Vanessa Lemm, “Introduction: Biopolitics and Community in Roberto Esposito,” 6.
44 Sting, “Fortress.”
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Stefan Herbrechter
Stefan Herbrechter is a freelance academic researcher, writer and translator, a research fellow at Coventry University and a Privatdozent at Heidelberg University. Until 2014, he was Reader in Cultural Theory and Director of Postgraduate Studies (Media) at Coventry University. Previously, he held appointments at Heidelberg University (Professor of English and Cultural Studies) and Leeds Trinity University. He obtained his PhD from the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory at Cardiff University and his Habilitation from Heidelberg. His publications include a number of volumes and articles on a variety of aspects in English and comparative literature, critical & cultural theory, continental philosophy, cultural and media studies. His most recent book is Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis (Bloomsbury). He is also a translator of cultural theory and philosophy from French into English (Derrida, Cixous, Stiegler), series editor of Critical Posthumanisms (Brill) and director of the Critical Posthumanism Network.
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