Proust and gender: this piece rereads the famous encounter between Charlus and Jupien — and the orchid scene that frames it — through the lens of Deleuze, Guattari, and Preciado. Between botanical allegory and a theory of desire, a look at what Proust invents, without naming it, about gender itself.

Narcissism and the sea squirt: before becoming plant-like, this marine organism has a full nervous system — which it digests itself, once settled, never to move again. A biological fable, drawn from Llinás and Jules Verne, introducing the psychoanalytic concept of narcissism.