Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Log On: Bookmarks 1
4. Neural Reminders
5. The Time Machine 19
6. Attentive and Inattentive Remembering 26
7. Short-Term, Long-Term, and Working Memories 38
8. Memory in the Future Tense 42
9. Fear and Watchfulness 47
10. Synaptic Fields and Long-Term Potentiation 54
11. Things to Remember 57
12. Semiotic Motions
13. Volumes Recollected 63
14. Mum’s the Word 75
15. Scorpions at the End of Time 82
16. Timing and Planting a Plot 94
17. Speculations on the Hot and the Cold 112
18. Philosophical Speculations
19. Kant on Time 127
20. Assembling a Clock 133
21. But Where Is Time? 140
22. The Body and Soul of Time 152
23. Variations on the Signum Triceps 164
24. All in a Bar 173
25. Ground Zero History and Signs of Transgenocide 188
26. Notes 201
27. Bibliography 207
28. Index 213