Index
Introduction I
Navigating the Delusive Spaces of Media and Technology
Part i
Archaeologies of the Machine
Archaeology 38
Discourse Analysis, Media Archaeology, the Megamachine,
Libidinal Mechanics
Cosmic Machine 74
Assessing the Clockwork Metaphor of the Heavens
Time Machine 96
On Machines for Measuring Time and Machines for Travelling in Time
Body Machine / Machine Body 117
Excess of the Libidinal Machine
War Machine I49
The Formation of the Modern War Machine and the Disciplined
Machine Body
Libidinal Machines / Imaginary Media 165
On Machines that Mediate Impossible Desires
Notes 183
Part ii
Politics and Uses
The Post-Governmental Condition 190
Politics beyond the Government
The Intensification of Time 214
Speed, Ubiquity and the Vision Machine
The Politics of Cultural Memory 228
Identity, Belonging and Necessity
'freedom' 242
Cyberspace Independence and Contemporary Gnosticism
Constructing the Digital Commons 259
A Venture into Hybridization
Mindful Disconnection 272
Counterpowering the Panopticon from the Inside
The Pleasure of the Medium 277
Jouissance and the Excess of Writing
The Society of the Unspectacular 285
Leaving Debord Behind
Virtual Life 288
Can There Be Such a Thing as 'Community' in the Infosphere?
Media without an Audience 294
Networked Presence and Radical Privatisation
Mediate YourSelfi 304
Create Your Own Solutions
Notes 313
Part iiin
Questioning the Unrepresentable
The Unrepresentable 318
Infinity, Rupture and the Secret
Transfiguration of the Avant-Garde 328
The Negative Dialectics of the Net
A Sublime Encounter 348
Observations on Art and Terrorism
The Sublime Unrepresentability of War 372
Silence of the Disaster
Notes 383
Bibliography 385
