Unsuspecting Souls Page 38
2 Ibid., page 192.
3 Ivan Illich, “The Institutional Construction of a New Fetish: Human Life,” presented on March 29, 1989, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America meeting, Chicago.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ivan Illich, “Brave New Biocracy: Health Care from Womb to Tomb,” New Perspectives Quarterly, Winter 1994.
7 Illich, “The Institutional Construction of a New Fetish.”
8 Illich, “Death Undefeated.”
9 Anthony Kenny, “Life Stories,” Times Literary Supplement, March 29, 2005.
10 “Dutch Ponder ‘Mercy Killing’ Rules,” CNN, December 2, 2004.
11 Waldby quoted in Nikolas Rose, “The Value of Life: Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital,” Daedalus, Winter 2008, pages 36-48.
12 Ibid.
13 Quoted in George Johnson, Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005).
14 Illumina, Inc., www.illumina.com.
15 Baudrillard and Noailles, Exiles from Dialogue, pages 33-34.
16 Ibid., page 34.
17 John Tierney, “The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least,” The New York Times, June 3, 2008.
18 Personalized Medicine Coalition, www.personalizedmedicinecoalition.org.
19 Baudrillard and Noailles, Exiles from Dialogue, page 35.
20 Rose, “The Value of Life,” page 40.
21 Genentech, www.gene.com.
22 Paul Kramer, “The Water Cure: Debating Torture and Counterinsurgency—A Century Ago,” The New Yorker, February 25, 2008, page 56.
23 Ibid, pages 57-58.
SIX | Coney Island and the Mind
1 Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (New York: Random House, 1960), page 305.
2 Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, page 41.
3 Adam Phillips, On Flirtation: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Uncommitted Life (London: Faber and Faber, 1994), page 25.
4 Sigmund Freud, “Screen-Memory,” The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, ed. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953-1974), page 562.
5 Phillips, On Flirtation, page 67.
6 See John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), page 52.
7 See Michael Immerso, Coney Island: The People’s Playground (New York: Rutgers, 2002), passim.
8 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Man the Reformer,” in Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983).
9 Randall Stross, “Edison the Inventor, Edison the Showman,” The New York Times, March 11, 2007.
10 Edward Marshall, “‘No Immortality of the Soul’ Says Thomas A. Edison,” The New York Times, October 2, 1910.
11 Neil Baldwin, Edison: Inventing the Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), page 317.
12 “Key Inventions of Nineteenth Century,” Economist, December 20, 1997.
13 Richard Stengel, “1-900-Aural Sex,” Time, February 3, 1992.
14 Reported by Blaine Harden, “An Incandescent Coney Island of the Mind,” The New York Times, August 28, 1999.
15 Baldwin, Edison, page 401.
16 Ibid., page 452.
17 Caitlin Carpenter, “Self-Help Books Get the ‘Tough Love’ Treatment,” Christian Science Monitor, February 7, 2008.
SEVEN | The Draculated Cat
1 Francis Adams and Barry Sanders, Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man’s Land, 1619-2000 (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), passim.
2 Marina Warner, Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-First Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), page 309.
3 Phillips, On Flirtation, page 153.
4 Rosalind Krauss, “Tracing Nadar,” October, No. 102, 1978.
5 Caleb Crain, “The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978, From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson,” The New York Review of Books, May 1, 2008.
6 Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (New York: Zone, 2007), passim.
7 Roy Porter, Madness: A Brief History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), pages 142-143.
8 Nancy Tomes and Lyn Gamwell, Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914 (New York: Cornell University Press, 1995), page 145.
9 Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (New York: Routledge, 2006), page 247.
10 Ivan Illich, “A Plea for Body History,” March 1986, privately circulated.
11 Quoted in Michael O’Malley, Keeping Watch: A History of American Time (New York: Penguin, 1990), page 128.
12 Ibid., page 99.
13 Phillips, On Flirtation, page 127.
14 Warner, Phantasmagoria, page 357.
15 Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, page 240.
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