[2] Michael Mateas, "Expressive AI," in Electronic Art and Animation Catalog,SIGGRAPH 2000, New Orleans, LA.

[3] Descartes, Philosophical Writings, trans. and ed. Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Thomas Gear, London University Paperbacks, 1975, p 32.

[4] See "I of He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks," in Slajov Zizek, Tarrying with the Negative, Duke University Press, 1993, pp. 9-44.

[5]See "Cogito and the History of Madness," in Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass, Chicago University Press, 1978, especially pp. 45-63.

[6] Descartes, Philosophical Writings, p 32.

[7] Cited in Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self, Harvard University Press, 1989, p. 129.

[8] Ibid, 146.

[9] http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/2492/1.html

[10] William Gibson, Neuromancer. (Bantam, NY, 1984), 51.

[11] Cited by John Cottingham, "Introduction," in The Cambridge Companion to Descartes, ed. John Cottingham, Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 14.

[12] Hubert Dreyfus, "Telepistemology: Descartes' Last Stand," in The Robot in the Garden, ed. Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, 2000, p.54.

[13] Thanks to Carlos Seligo, PhD., for this point.

[14] Perhaps the "energetic" body diagrams found in Taoistm and Tantra, with their chakras, nadis and miridian lines, depict traditional formuations of this liminal bodymind.

[15] See John Canny and Eric Paulos, "Tele-Embodiment and Shattered Presence," in The Robot in the Garden, ed. Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, 2000, p277-294.

[16] This probing of nameless affects and desire explains why the subjective rhetoric of speeds and slownesses, including the bullet-time photography mentioned below, more often appear in advertisements for SUVs and McDonalds than in mainstream cinema.

[17] Augustine, Confessions, trans. R.S. Pine-Coffin, Penguin, 1961, p.165.

[18] Descartes, Meditations, in The Philosophy of the 16th and 17th Centuries, ed. Richard Popkin, Free Press, 1966, p.133.

[19] "Cogito and the History of Madness," 55.

[20] Ibid, 56.

[21] John Cottingham, "Cartesian Dualism," in The Cambridge Companion to Descartes, p. 241.

[22]Slajov Zizek, "I of He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks," in Slajov Zizek, Tarrying with the Negative, Duke University Press, 1993, p.42.

[23] Ibid, 40.

[24] Descartes, Meditations, 139.

[25] http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/2492/1.html

[26] RenŽ Daumal, The Powers of the Word, ed. and trans. Mark Polizzotti, City Lights, 1991, 4.

[27] Slavoj Zizek, "Cartesian Subject Versus Cartesian Theater," in Cogito and the Unconscious, ed. Slavoj Zizek, Duke University Press, 1998, 269.

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