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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter One - TOWARD EMBODIED VIRTUALITY
Seriation, Skeuomorphs, and Conceptual Constellations
Information Theory and Everyday Life
Virtuality and Contemporary Literature
Chapter Two - VIRTUAL BODIES AND FLICKERING SIGNIFIERS
Signifying the Processes of Production
Information Narratives and Bodies of Information
Functionalities of Narrative
Chapter Three - CONTESTING FOR THE BODY OF INFORMATION: THE MACY CONFERENCES ON CYBERNETICS
The Meaning(lessness) of Information
Neural Nets as Logical Operators
The Rat and the Homeostat: Looping between Concept and Artifact
Kubie’s Last Stand
Circling the Observer
Janet Freud/Freed
Chapter Four - LIBERAL SUBJECTIVITY IMPERILED: NORBERT WIENER AND CYBERNETIC ANXIETY
Of Molecules and Men: Cybernetics and Probability
Crossing Boundaries: Everything Is an Analogy, Including This Statement
Entropy as Cultural Relay: From Heat Engines to Information
The Argument for Celibacy: Preserving the Boundaries of the Subject
Chapter Five - FROM HYPHEN TO SPLICE: CYBERNETIC SYNTAX IN LIMBO
Chapter Six - THE SECOND WAVE OF CYBERNETICS: FROM REFLEXIVITY TO SELF-ORGANIZATION
Reflexivity Revisited
Reconfiguring the Liberal Humanist Subject
Autopoiesis and Evolution
The Voice of the Other: Varela and Embodiment
Chapter Seven - TURNING REALITY INSIDE OUT AND RIGHT SIDE OUT: BOUNDARY WORK ...
The Schizoid Woman and the Dark-Haired Girl
Capitalism and the Schizoid Android
The Schizoid Woman (De)Constructs Male Subjectivity
Wasting Time in the Tomb World
Turning Right-Side Out in Dr. Bloodmoney
Dark-Haired Girl/Schizoid Woman as Facade: The Reality Underneath
Punctuating the Endless Regress of Reflexivity
Chapter Eight - THE MATERIALITY OF INFORMATICS
Foucault’s Archaeology and the Erasure of Embodiment
Incorporating Practices and Embodied Knowledge
Audiotape and Its Cultural Niche
Chapter Nine - NARRATIVES OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE
The Nature and Artifice of Artificial Life
Positioning the Field: The Politics of Artificial Life
Reconfiguring the Body of Information
The Computational Universe
Murmurs from the Body
Chapter Ten - THE SEMIOTICS OF VIRTUALITY : MAPPING THE POSTHUMAN
The Mutating Bodies of Blood Music
The Hyperreality of Terminal Games
Material Signifiers in Galatea 2.2
Informational Infection and Hygiene in Snow Crash
Inscribing and Incorporating: The Future (of the) Posthuman
Chapter Eleven - CONCLUSION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE POSTHUMAN ?
Notes
Index
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