Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note to the Reader vii
4. Couplet 1
5. Extreme Realism: In Sixteen Series 2
6. Realer Than Real: The Simulacrum according to Deleuze and Guattari 15
7. Couplet 2
8. On the Right to the Noncommunication of Cultural Difference 26
9. Event Horizon 63
10. Couplet 3
11. Becoming Animal in the Literary Field 72
12. The Virtual, Double Capture, and the Urban-Architecture Manifold 94
13. Couplet 4
14. Simondon’s “Technical Mentality” Revisited 104
15. The Supernormal Animal 119
16. Couplet 5
17. Sensing the Virtual, Building the Insensible 134
18. Not Determinately Nothing: Building Experience 158
19. Couplet 6
20. The Crannies of the Present: On the Subject of Decision 177
21. Dim, Massive, and Important: Atmosphere in Process 188
22. Couplet 7
23. Going Kinetic: What Is Decision in a Post-deliberative Age? 209
24. Barely There: The Power of the Image at the Limit of Life 232
25. Couplet 8
26. Requiem for Our Prospective Dead: A Participatory Critique of Capitalist Power 286
27. The Political Is Not Personal: Affect, Power, Violence 315
28. Couplet 9
29. Tell Me Where Your Pain Is: Pointing to the Body without an Image 324
30. The Art of the Relational Body: From Mirror-Touch to the Virtual Body 342
31. Couplet 10
32. The Parable of the Cave (Blind Version) 359
33. Panoscopia 376
34. Couplet 11
35. Urban Appointment: A Possible Rendezvous with the City 385
36. Purple Phosphene 402
37. Couplet 12
38. On Critique 406
39. How Do You Make Yourself a Proposition? For a Whiteheadian Laboratory 410
40. Notes 427
41. References 447
42. Index 461
43. Sources 485
44. Image Credits 489