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1. Thompson.
   

2. Thompson.
   

3. Barboza, April 4, 2005.
   

4. Barboza, December 9, 2005.
   

5. Barboza, December 9, 2005.
   

6. Barboza and Altman
   

7. Kahn.
   

8. Barboza, April 3, 2006.
   

9. Bradsher, August 3, 2005; Stein.
   

10. Bradsher, July 21, 2005; Stein; Lohr.
    

11. Barboza, May 25, 2005.
    

12. Bradsher, August 27, 2005.
    

13. Human Rights Watch: Child Labor, 1.
    

14. Siddiqui and Patrinos, 2
    

15. Human Rights Watch: Child Labor, 1.
    

16. Author observations, Kaplan A., and Brottman. (for
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    and
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    )
    

17. Author observations.
    

18. Brottman.
    

19. Klosterman, 28.
    

20. Klosterman, 28.
    

21. Klosterman, 28
    

22. Klosterman, 29.
    

23. Klosterman, 29.
    

24. Klosterman, 31.
    

25. Klosterman, 31.
    

26. Klosterman, 32
    

27. Klosterman, 33.
    

28. Klosterman, 40. 84. Marx (1856), 300.
    

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1. Notes
   

   1. Ginzberg, 402. Source, Prof. Davis.
      

   2. Ichbiah, 114.
      

   3. Ichbiah, 40–1.
      

   4. Ichbiah, 40–1.
      

   5. Ichbiah, 41.
      

   6. Ichbiah, 41.
      

   7. Ichbiah, 43.
      

   8. Ichbiah, 50; Brooks, 72.
      

   9. Brooks, 11.
      

   10. Kaywin, Ross, Weiss,
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       .
       

   11. Kaywin, 22–4.
       

   12. Turo.
       

   13. Breazeal with Kismet in Reich and Korot.
       

   14. Brooks, 93 (with photo).
       

   15. Breazeal, 109.
       

   16. Breazeal, 109.
       

   17. Breazeal, 123.
       

   18. Breazeal, 109–10
       

19. Breazeal, 157–68; photos, 166, 168.

1. Brooks, 54–5.
   

2. Brooks, 95.
   

3. Breazeal, 235.
   

4. Breazeal, 235, footnote.
   

5. Ichbiah, 121.
   

6. Ichbiah, 121.
   

26. Ichbiah, 121–22, photos, 122, 123; Brooks, 70–1.

1. Ichbiah, 122.
   

2. Ichbiah, 125.
   

3. Ichbiah, 125.
   

4. Ichbiah, 185.
   

5. Ichbiah, 185.
   

6. Ichbiah, 183.
   

7. Ichbiah, 128.
   

34. Ichbiah, 190–92.

1. Ichbiah, 150.
   

2. Chamberlain, 1.
   

3. Chamberlain, 1.
   

4. Ichbiah, 152.
   

39. Ichbiah, 152–53.

1. Ichbiah, 152.
   

2. Brooks, 73.
   

3. MIT Robotic Life Group; Wikipedia.com.
   

4. Varela and Maturana, 78.
   

5. Wikipedia.com.
   

45. Ichbiah, 516–19.

1. Ichbiah, 516.
   

2. Ichbiah, 518.
   

3. Ichbiah 519.
   

4. Brooks, 208.
   

5. Sokolowski, 45–8.
   

6. Sokolowski, 48.
   

7. Sokolowski, 48.
   

8. Brooks, 173.
   

9. Brooks, 174. 55. Levi, 232–33.
   

1. Edel, 33.
   

2. Strachey, 10.
   

3. Edel, 33.
   

59. Marx, 300.

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   1. Holden.
      

   2. Holden.
      

   3. Holden.
      

   4. Schiesel.
      

   5. Schiesel.
      

   6. Schiesel.
      

   7. Ichbiah, 522.
      

   8. Ichbiah, 523.
      

   9. Ichbiah, 523.
      

   10. Ichbiah, 523.
       

   11. Foster, 260.
       

1. 1. Notes
      

   2. Wachtel, 116.
      

   3. Wachtel, 115.
      

   4. Wachtel, 115.
      

   5. Markoff.
      

   6. Markoff.
      

   7. Harmon.
      

   8. Harmon.
      

   9. Carvajal
      

   10. Lewin.
       

   11. Lewin.
       

   12. Lewin.
       

   13. Carroll.
       

   14. Keats, December 21, 1818.
       

   15. Keats, December 21, 1818.
       

   16. Levi, 33.
       

   17. Levi, 33.
       

   18. Levi, 33.
       

   19. This book, chapter four.
       

   20. This book, chapter four.
       

   21. This book, chapter three.
       

   22. This book, chapter three
       

   23. This book, chapter nine.
       

   24. Greenaway’s
       The Pillow Book
       . This book, chapter five.
       

   25. This book, chapter six.
       

   26. Strachey, 10
       

   27. Woolf, 38.
       

   28. Composite of Strachey and Woolf.
       

39. Kaplan (1977).

40. Kaplan (1984), 151.

41. Kaplan (1984), 151–52.

42. Kaplan (1984), 151.

1. Marx, in Wilson, 310
   

2. Marx, in Kamenka, 287 footnote.
   

3. Marx, in Kamenka, 288.
   

4. Kernberg, 1039.
   

5. Strachey, 10.
   

6. Edel, 33.
   

7. Dimen, 59.
   

8. Keats, December 21, 1818.
   

9. Derrida, 2.
   

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I
ndex
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AIDS, 177

Adolescence

fear of bodily changes, 77

loss of childhood illusions, 80, 188

nostalgia, 188 aggression

regulation of, 90, 91, 178

fetishism strategy and, 90, 91, 178,

187, 188

towards the body of a woman, 15–20, 31, 32, 39–48

see also
apocalyptic narrative, death, destruction, Death Instinct

Aibo (robot dog), 164

update: pearl black Aibo, 164

see
Doi, Japan

“Alien meets Terminator,” (tattoo), 82 alienation, 133

Alladin-Genie, fantasy of, 159 Altman, Daniel, 145

ambiguity, 6, 137

see
Certainty/Uncertainty, negative capability

American Imago
, ix, 50, 98 amputation,

professional, 80

self, 80

“Amputee Love”, 80

analyzing instrument, 116–18

see
Isakower “anatomy is destiny,” 22

Andrew (android) in film
Bicentenntial Man
, 165–6

android, definition of: 155 contrasted with robot, 156, 158
see also
under individual names

anima machina
, 163, 166 animate vs. inanimate, 172 anthropologists, 71–3

Anti-Footbinding Edict, 46–8

Letting out of bindings, 46–7, 47n, 48

see also
footbinding,
My Beloved and Terrible Lotus

Anzieu, Didier (
A Skin for Thought
), 74

Apprentice, The

premise of, 149–50, 176 commodification of participants,

150, 159

vampire principle in, 150 typical scenarios, 150

Chinese versions of, 146;
see also

Lo, Trump

Apocalyptic narrative, 60, 90, 184–5

in structure of films, 60, 64, 66, 90, 91

in human fantasies, 90, 91, 184–5

see also
Destruction, world destruction, Mother Nature

Arbus, Diane, 4

Archive fever, 8, 92, 93, 95, 108,

93–109,
passim
, 113, 186

Derrida’s definition, 8, 93

destructive impulses, 8, 93

in biography, 92, 93, 95

in Marx’s writings, 132, 138

see also
Edel, Strachey, Woolf Arlow, Jacob, 117, 120

artificial, natural distinctions, 169–70 Artificial Intelligence (AI), 162 Artificial Intelligence,
emergent
, 162 Artificial Life (ALife), 166

“As-If” character, 158–9 the new hysteric, 159

see also
Alladin-Genie fantasy Asimo (android), 164

attributes of, 164

construction of, 164 derivation of name, 164

prototypes of: P1, P2, P3, 163–4 as receptionist, 164–5