that’s the way I see my story ‘Love Sick’. I was also taken by the difference between Deleuze’s trace (hence the lines, or tiny columns of ants) and how Haraway considers maps, the multiple entryways (which I would prefer)

I also see it as an ‘assemblage’ though that word has an undertone of it being physically manipulated, and I also want to consider the in-between stages. Maybe it is more the act, the becoming which continues online…. (does this make sense or is this a ramble, excuse the pun… Actually might be better to use ‘ramble’ than the word drift!)

to round it all off, I came across this too…
http://www.twohundredandsixteencolors.com/ants/

I had only read the Penderson paper with a reference to Gough, last week, and it was the only bit that stood out for me from that paper (with all respect to the rest of the discussion that was covered) – but the paper does not mention the rhizom-ant-ics…so, for me, this kind of ‘nails it’….

Gough says that “becoming-cyborg is not a matter of reducing the gap between the cyborg concept and the material cyborg body (which would be a mode of transcendent posthumanism) but, rather, affirms the perpetual immanence of the gap…” (p.255)

I quite like the affirmation of the gap as a starting point – and his claim that we need “imagined and invented maps of connections that experiment with the real rather than provide only tracings of it” (p.262).