4 The Evolutionary Alchemy of Reason: Stelarc

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xi
4. Keywords for Affect xxxiii
5. Missed Conceptions xliii
6. Introduction: Concrete Is as Concrete Doesn’t 1
7. 1 The Autonomy of Affect 25
8. 2 The Bleed: Where Body Meets Image 49
9. 3 The Political Economy of Belonging and the Logic of Relation 73
10. 4 The Evolutionary Alchemy of Reason: Stelarc 97
11. 5 On the Superiority of the Analog 145
12. 6 Chaos in the “Total Field” of Vision 157
13. 7 The Brightness Confound 177
14. 8 Strange Horizon: Buildings, Biograms, and the Body Topologic 193
15. 9 Too-Blue: Color-Patch for an Expanded Empiricism 227
16. Notes 279
17. Works Cited 333
18. Index 343