Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS IX
3. List of Illustrations XI
4. INTRODUCTION: MATERIA POETICA 1
5. I. POETICS AND MATERIALISM
6. Lyric Substance 11
7. The Icon Weeps 21
8. Critical Mass 31
9. 2 THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF TOYS
10. Dolls and Divination 34
11. Philosophical Toys 57
12. 3. THE LYRIC AUTOMATON 63
13. 4. METEORIC BODIES
14. Kepler's Starlet 95
15. Mister Thunder 110
16. Animal Magnetism 135
17. Weather Underground 145
18. 5. THE MATERIAL ABYSS
19. Dust to Dust 158
20. Epicurean Marx 171
21. Snare Pictures 175
22. Angels and Animalcula 184
23. 6. RADIANT SPECIES
24. The Physics of Aphrodite 199
25. Half-Lives and One-and-a-Half Lives 211
26. Fairyflake 215
27. 7. EPHEMERA
28. Paradoxology 245
29. Wild Kingdom 267
30. CONCLUSION 287
31. NOTES 295
32. INDEX 333