Contents

Title Page

Copyright and More Information

Introduction: The Coming Goo

Meteomedia, or Why London’s Weather Is in the Middle of Everything

Why Ulysses Matters

Kool Thing, or Why I Want to Fuck Patty Hearst

Get Real, or What Jellyfish Have to Tell Us About Literature

Tristram Shandy: On Balls and Planes

Recessional, or the Time of the Hammer

Blurring the Sublime: On Gerhard Richter

The Prosthetic Imagination of David Lynch

From Feedback to Reflux: Kafka’s Cybernetics of Revolt

The Geometry of the Pressant

Stabbing the Olive: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

On Dodgem Jockeys

Nothing Will Have Taken Place Except the Place

18 Semiconnected Thoughts on Michel de Certeau, On Kawara, Fly Fishing, and Various Other Things

Kathy Acker’s Infidel Heteroglossia

Sources

Biographical Notes