Instead of a Preface, a Frontispiece

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgements XIII
4. Instead of a Preface, a Frontispiece XIX
5. Incipit, a Chord XXIII
6. Tempered in the Time of the Analemma XLVII
7. Didascalicon 1
8. Digital Ekphrasis 13
9. The Digital, a Continent? 47
10. Cosmoliteracy and Anthropography 75
11. Statuesque Words in Locum Tenens: Cornucopian Instruments, Lieu-tenants of Statements 111
12. Photosynthesis: Cosmic Convivia of Meteora Alloys 139
13. The Alphabetic Absolute 173
14. Capital Bodies: Secrets of the Universe 279
15. In Medias Naturae 297
16. The Instrumentation of Space: Time, Cosmos, Politics 337
17. Entwurf of the Method and Ethics of its Discourse: Cartesianism Reconsidered 379
18. Once Upon the Autonomy of Words 431
19. Bibliography 449