Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Permissions xi
5. Introduction 1
6. CODE BREAKERS
7. 1 Traumas of Code 39
8. 2 A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies 59
9. 3 Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions 70
10. 4 Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space 85
11. NEW DIGITAL MEDIA
12. 5 All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software 101
13. 6 Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe 120
14. 7 A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse 144
15. 8 Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism 162
16. 9 Archaeologies of Media Art 179
17. TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE
18. 10 Precision + Guided + Seeing 193
19. 11 Understanding Meta-media 212
20. 12 Black Box, Black Bloc 218
21. 13 Biophilosophy for the 21st Century 227
22. 14 Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour 238
23. POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION
24. INFORMATION AND POWER
25. 15 Communication and Imperialism 257
26. 16 Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People’s Archive 283
27. 17 Tell Us What’s Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror 293
28. 18 Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics 312
29. 19 Virilio’s Apocalypticism 331
30. GENDER AND SEXUALITY
31. 20 The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary 348
32. 21 Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and other ‘Novel’ Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media 357
33. 22 Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study 373
34. RELIGION AND SOCIETY
35. 23 Circuits, Death, and Sacred Fiction: The City of Banaras 393
36. 24 Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology 398
37. 25 Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh 408
38. CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION
39. PERCEPTION
40. 26 The Aura of the Digital 433
41. 27 When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial 447
42. 28 Distraction and Digital Culture 465
43. PERFORMANCE
44. 29 Metal Performance: Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About 485
45. 30 Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency 519
46. 31 Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head 532
47. 32 Slipstreaming the Cyborg 542
48. SOUND
49. 33 Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub) 556
50. 34 Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image 566
51. 35 The Turntable 574
52. Bibliography 587
53. Contributors 601