Index

   Acknowledgments / IX

   Prologue / XI
 
1. Toward Embodied Virtuality / 1

2. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers / 25

3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences 
   on Cybernetics / 50

4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener 
   and Cybernetic Anxiety / 84

5. From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetics Syntax in Limbo /113

6. The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity 
   to Self-Organization / 131

7. Turning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in 
   the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick / 160

8. The Materiality of Informatics / 192

9. Narratives of Artificial Life / 222

10. The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman / 247

11. Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman? / 283

    Notes / 293

    Index / 325