Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I Intellectual Histories of the Information Age
5. Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin’s New Experiments of 1751 23
6. From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project 47
7. The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics 76
8. PART II Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses
9. More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale’s Tours, imax, and Motion Simulation Rides 99
10. Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States 126
11. The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations 150
12. PART III Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion
13. Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History 177
14. Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls 199
15. Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics 218
16. PART IV Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects
17. Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media 257
18. Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions 283
19. Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime 305
20. Selected Bibliography 331
21. Contributors 335
22. Index 339