Index

Table of Contents
Series Foreword	
Acknowledgments	
Contributors	
Introduction	
Screen Grabs: The Digital Dialectic and New Media Theory	
I	The Real and the Ideal	
1	Unfinished Business	6
2	The Cyberspace Dialectic	24
3	The Ethical Life of the Digital Aesthetic	46
II	The Body and the Machine	
4	The Condition of Virtuality	68
5	From Cybernation to Interaction: A Contribution to an Archaeology of Interactivity	96
6	Replacing Place	112
III	The Medium and the Message	
7	The Medium Is the Memory	130
8	Hypertext as Collage-Writing	150
9	What Is Digital Cinema?	172
IV	The World and the Screen	
10	"We Could Be Better Ancestors Than This": Ethics and First Principles for the Art of the Digital Age	198
11	Musings on Amusements in America, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation	214
Notes	236
Recommended Readings in New Media Theory	270
Index	284