Parasites, Signals, and Nodes

Abstract

abstract:This article has been adapted from the notes for a talk presented at the "Inhuman Screens" conference, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, September 2019. It is very much a series of ideas and starting points for thinking about the inhuman screen, the metaphor and experience of the inhuman in relation to biological interventions, and the texts that most clearly align with these ideas. In particular, it primarily considers Ian Haig's film The Foaming Node, a body-horror film that takes the form of a documentary, and the breakdown of human subjectivity.