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Notes

1 For Deleuze and Guattari (1980/1987), the capture of desire was not simply a technological problem, rather desire itself must be reimagined.

2 A zine is a self‐published work, usually photocopied, with a small circulation.

3 In the park by my house here in Chicago, my children joined hundreds of others in sitting out candles for a second‐grader in their class who drowned in the river. The memorial remains undisturbed, as far as I can tell, respected by all. Eventually, they are removed, as evidenced by the one no longer present that memorialized another second‐grader who died in a horrendous vengeful arson over a year ago.

4 See also artist Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arc.”

5 Even that last sentence, which might at first appear honest or candid, is, upon further reflection, only more of the same. In fact, it attempts to rally readers to my side, through an Orwellian confession of the very structure it furthers. The simple explication of this power relation does not undo it.

6 The vampire is a popular resistance image of capitalism, as capitalism conceals the value it takes. In my mind, the image is of activists dressed as corporate executives with vampire teeth I witnessed protesting the Trans‐Atlantic Business Dialogue in Chicago, 2002 (see http://chicago.indymedia.org/feature/display/34359/index.php).