Notes
1. Catherine Belsey, Critical Practice (London: Methuen, 1980), 7.
2. Cf. Jean-Pierre Changeux, L’Homme neuronal (Paris: Hachette, 1998).
3. Catherine Malabou, Que faire de notre cerveau? (Paris: Bayard, 2004), 11; see also 22: “Nous vivons à l’heure de la libération neuronale et nous ne le savons pas.”
4. Malabou, Que faire de notre cerveau? 26–28.
5. Darren Tofts, “Virtuality: Webworlds and Cyberspaces,” in Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History, ed. Darren Tofts (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002), 109; similar tributes to Borges can be found in The New Media Reader, ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003), 3ff. and 13ff., or indeed online (a simple Google search on “Borges and the web” will suffice to bring up all major references). See also Floyd Merrell’s Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, Mathematics, and the New Physics (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1991), for an early evaluation of Borges’s influence on cognitive science.
6. Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus, ed., Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges (Lewisburg. PA: Bucknell University Press, 2009), 7.
7. Cf. Jorge J. E. Garcia, Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Rodoplphe Gasché, eds., Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco (London: Routledge, 2002).
8. Borges, “After Images,” in The Total Library, 11.
9. Borges, “Funes the Memorious,” in Labyrinths (London: Penguin, 1970), 94.