Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. CONTRIBUTORS xiii
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. From Thermodynamics to Virtuality 17
8. Part One The Cultures of Thermodynamics
9. INTRODUCTION 35
10. 1. Time Discovered and Time Gendered in Victorian Science and Culture 39
11. 2. Dark Star Crashes: Classical Thermodynamics and the Allegory of Cosmic Catastrophe 59
12. 3. Energetic Abstraction: Ostwald, Bogdanov, and Russian Post-Revolutionary Art 76
13. Part Two Ether and Electromagnetism: Capturing the Invisible
14. INTRODUCTION 95
15. 4. Lines of Force, Swirls of Ether 99
16. 5. The Real and the Ethereal: Modernist Energies in Eliot and Pound 114
17. 6. Vibratory Modernism: Boccioni, Kupka, and the Ether of Space 126
18. Part Three Traces and Inscriptions: Diagramming Forces
19. INTRODUCTION 151
20. 7. Representation on the Line: Graphic Recording Instruments and Scientific Modernism 155
21. 8. Concerning the Line: Music, Noise, and Phonography 178
22. 9. Bodies in Force Fields: Design Between the Wars 195
23. Part Four Representing Information
24. INTRODUCTION 213
25. 10. On the Imagination's Horizon Line: Uchronic Histories, Protocybernetic Contact, and Charles Babbage's Calculating Engines 217
26. 11. Escape and Constraint: Three Fictions Dream of Moving from Energy to Information 235
27. 12. Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s 255
28. Part Five Voxels and Senseis: Bodies in Virtual Space
29. INTRODUCTION 279
30. 13. Authorship and Surgery: The Shifting Ontology of the Virtual Surgeon 283
31. 14. Eversion: Brushing against Avatars, Aliens, and Angels 309
32. Part Six Representation from Pre- to Post-Modernity
33. INTRODUCTION 325
34. 15. Puppet and Test Pattern: Mechanicity and Materiality in Modern Pictorial Representation 327
35. 16. Dinosaurs and Modernity 351
36. NOTES 365
37. INDEX 429