Index

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations                                                ix
Acknowledgments                                                      xi

Introduction : The Body in the Machine	                             1

1  Sampling and Folding : the Digital and the Baroque                25

2  Natural History and Digital History                               55

3  Virtuality : Actualizing Bodies, Abstracting Selves	             86

4  Interfaciality : From the Friendly Face of Computing 
   to the Alien Terrain of Informatic Bodies                         117

5  Digitality : An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm for Information	     150

Postscript : Emerging Tendencies in Embodied Information Aesthetics  178

Notes                                                                187
Bibliography                                                         211
Index                                                                225