Author's Note
I would like to thank Dan Greene and Tara McPherson for their feedback on an earlier iteration of this essay presented at the American Studies Association conference in November, 2013. I would also like to thank Christina Dunbar-Hester, Seda Gurses, Finn Brunton, and Peter Asaro for reading and commenting on a later draft of this essay. Thanks too to Tamsyn Gilbert and Lisa Nakamura for recruiting me to write it!