Table of Contents

1. Title page
2. Copyright page
3. Dedication
4. First Part: On the Emergence of the World System
   1. 1: Of Grand Narratives
      1. Notes
   2. 2: The Wandering Star
      1. Notes
   3. 3: Return to Earth
      1. Notes
   4. 4: Globe Time, World Picture Time
      1. Notes
   5. 5: Turn from the East, Entrance into the Homogeneous Space
      1. Notes
   6. 6: Jules Verne and Hegel
      1. Notes
   7. 7: Waterworld: On the Change of the Central Element in the Modern Age
      1. Notes
   8. 8: Fortuna, or: The Metaphysics of Chance
      1. Notes
   9. 9: Risk-Taking
      1. Notes
   10. 10: Delusion and Time: On Capitalism and Telepathy
       1. Notes
   11. 11: The Invention of Subjectivity – Primary Disinhibition and Its Advisers
       1. Notes
   12. 12: Irreflexive Energies: The Ontology of the Headstart
       1. Notes
   13. 13: Nautical Ecstasies
       1. Notes
   14. 14: ‘Corporate Identity’ on the High Seas, Parting of Minds
       1. Notes
   15. 15: The Basic Movement: Money Returns
       1. Notes
   16. 16: Between Justifications and Assurances: On Terran and Maritime Thought
       1. Notes
   17. 17: Expedition and Truth
       1. Notes
   18. 18: The Signs of the Explorers: On Cartography and Imperial Name Magic
       1. Notes
   19. 19: The Pure Outside
       1. Notes
   20. 20: Theory of the Pirate: The White Terror
       1. Notes
   21. 21: The Modern Age and the New Land Syndrome
       1. Notes
   22. 22: The Five Canopies of Globalization: Aspects of European Space Exportation
   23. 23: The Poetics of the Ship's Hold
       1. Notes
   24. 24: Onboard Clerics: The Religious Network
       1. Notes
   25. 25: The Book of Vice-Kings
       1. Note
   26. 26: The Library of Globalization
       1. Note
   27. 27: The Translators
       1. Note
5. Second Part: The Grand Interior
   1. 28: Synchronous World
      1. Notes
   2. 29: The Second Ecumene
      1. Notes
   3. 30: The Immunological Transformation: On the Way to Thin-Walled ‘Societies’
      1. Notes
   4. 31: Believing and Knowing: In hoc signo (sc. globi) vinces
      1. Notes
   5. 32: Post-History
      1. Notes
   6. 33: The Crystal Palace
      1. Notes
   7. 34: The Dense World and Secondary Disinhibition: Terrorism as the Romanticism of the Pure Attack
      1. Notes
   8. 35: Twilight of the Perpetrators and the Ethics of Responsibility: The Cybernetic Erinyes
      1. Notes
   9. 36: The Capitalist World Interior: Rainer Maria Rilke Almost Meets Adam Smith
      1. Notes
   10. 37: Mutations in the Pampering Space
       1. Notes
   11. 38: Revaluation of all Values: The Principle of Abundance
       1. Notes
   12. 39: The Exception: Anatomy of a Temptation
       1. Notes
   13. 40: The Uncompressible, or: The Rediscovery of the Extended
       1. Notes
   14. 41: In Praise of Asymmetry
       1. Notes
   15. 42: The Heavenly and the Earthly Left
6. Index

Guide

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