Introduction: Death @ work -- Basic instincts: an illustrated guide to Freud's theory of drives -- The stubborn drive: Foucault, Freud, Fanon -- The queer space of the drive: rereading Freud with Laplanche -- Becoming inorganic: Cronenberg's eXistenZ, virtuality and the death drive -- The odor of memory: on reading Djuna Barnes with Freud.