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- abjection, 93, 141
- acoustic: instruments and performance, 126–27, 148–49, 196n77; space, 155, 157–58, 170n39, 196n75
- actuality. See virtuality
- Adorno, Theodor, 186n119
- advertising: clones and, 44; need creation in, 77–78
- affect (and affectivity), 15–6, 111, 121, 124–26, 128–30, 135, 140, 142–43
- Agamben, Giorgio: apparatuses in, 6; praxis in, 168n26; subjectivity in, 167n10
- agency: in Butler, Judith, 101, 104, 106; contingent, distributed, embodied, and machinic, 11, 26, 54, 78–83, 89, 135–36, 172n18; genetic determinism and, 11, 29–30; in Hansen, Mark B. N., 138, 141–42; in SRMP, 156–57, and technoculture, 164–65, in The Trace, 97–99, 103
- Ambassadors, The (artwork), 194n58
- anamorphosis, 124, 194n58
- Anderson, Pamela, 34
- Antigone’s Claim (Butler), 15, 101
- any-space-whatever, 194n68
- apparatuses, 6, 14, 167n10; sensory and perceptual, 4, 9, 38, 66, 133
- appearance, 2, 55, 124, 177n74, 186n119, 194n58, 196n74, 202n24
- arche-trace, 118, 175n50
- Arendt, Hannah, 21, 181n28, 190n26
- art, new media, 8–10, 162–64
- Asimov, Isaac, 113
- assemblage, Deleuzian, 162
- ASW, 194n68
- aurality, 2–3, 9
- auresis, 154
- autism, 86, 187n126
- autopoiesis, 66–67, 135, 138–39, 180n12, 199n119
- Badmington, Neil, 7, 203n5
- Barad, Karen, 111, 114, 121
- Baron in the Trees, The (Calvino), 47
- Barthes, Roland, 183n65
- Basement Suite (artwork), 48–52, 54–57, 179n6
- Baudrillard, Jean, 45, 86, 170n5, 173n31, 186n119, 202nn23–24
- Bauer, Will, 95
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 212, 159, 174n48
- Benjamin, Walter, 120, 184n91
- Bergson, Henri, 175n57
- Bergsonism (Deleuze), 175n57
- Blanchot, Maurice, 163
- Bodies in Code (Hansen), 111–12, 119, 121, 132–43
- bodily spacing (interval), 125
- Bostrom, 174n43
- Bott, E. A., 155
- Bourdieu, 118–19, 192n37
- Brecht, Bertold, 111
- Brent, William, 11–12, 16, 48–56, 200n3
- Bryson, Mary, 189n14
- Butler, Judith, 34, 36, 58, 93, 107, 130–31, 141, 189n20, 190n22, 190nn28–29; and melancholy, 11, 15, 100–106
- Callus, Ivan, 7
- Calvino, Italo, 47
- capitalism, 90, 164
- chaos, 176n62
- Chung, Wendy Hui Krong, 185n105
- cloning. See advertising
- code, worldview of, 70–76, 80, 83, 86–87, 182n45, 189n9
- cognition: autopoiesis and, 135; cognisphere and, 67; cognitive ecology and, 41; computational, 85; conceptual integration and, 135, 198n108; distributed, 14, 76–87, 119, 129; reason and, 104, 190n26
- complexity, 23, 27, 40, 68, 72, 138, 176n62, 182n40, 199n119
- computation, 73, 75, 80, 87, 99, 107, 138, 181n34, 181n36; regime of (RoC), 67–71, 81, 86, 164, 180n28
- constructivism, 84–85; anti-, 35–36
- convergence, media, 102–3
- Cronin, Helena, 174n46
- cultural bodies (Dyens), 13, 21, 23, 25–27, 30–41, 44–47, 57–58, 89, 169n30, 198n108
- cybernetics, 63–67, 80, 89, 91, 185n98, 191n17
- cyberspace, 125, 140
- cyborg, 13, 64, 67, 80, 169n30
- data. See information
- database, 5, 73–74, 84, 183n59, 183n61
- Davies, Char, 32, 163, 187n2
- Dawkins, Richard, 11, 13–14, 21–30, 34–36, 38, 40–43, 57–59, 87, 170n8, 178n80, 183n61, 183n72, 186n114
- Dean, Jodi, 199n138
- deconstruction, 8, 11, 14, 16, 70, 72, 75, 102, 111, 115, 117, 130, 132, 135–37, 143, 145, 149–51, 158, 162, 181n37, 182n38, 193n48, 201n10
- Deleuze, Gilles, 2, 40, 80, 89, 114, 138, 142, 157, 162, 175n57, 186n114, 187n131, 194n68
- Derrida, Jacques, 10–11, 70, 72, 75, 82, 102, 115–18, 120, 129–30, 136–37, 143, 145, 149, 163, 175, 181n37, 182n38, 192n28, 193n44
- desire, 13, 34, 86, 98–106, 142–43
- determinism: genetic, 11, 23, 29, 33–34, 42, 174n47; linguistic, 117; technological, 74–75, 81, 89
- différance, 85, 116, 132, 149
- digital humanities, 9
- digitality, 125, 129, 140–41, 157, 159
- disappearance, 33–34, 51, 54–55, 59, 93, 96, 116
- disembodiment, 65, 70, 89–90, 97–98, 103, 134, 140, 164
- Doris, John, 23–24, 28
- Drucker, Johanna, 9
- dualism, 185n104
- Duchamp, Marcel, 47
- duration, 154
- Dutton, Dennis, 170n8
- Dyens, Ollivier, 11, 13–14, 21–45, 47, 57, 59, 68, 131, 133–34, 138, 159, 161–62, 169nn29–30, 169n33, 172n22, 172n26, 174n46, 176n62, 177nn74–74, 178n77, 198n108, 203n5
- écart, 127
- Eidola (art exhibition), 11–12, 14, 48–53, 56–60
- Embodying Technesis (Hansen), 111, 112, 115, 120, 136
- empiricism, 29, 38, 47, 177n71
- Enlightenment, Dialectic of (Adorno and Horheimer), 186n119
- Éphémère (artwork), 187n2
- epiphylogenesis, 171n15
- ethics: in Hayles, 81–83, 86–90, 185n107; posthuman, in The Trace, 93, 98–107, 189n13
- Euclidean geometry, 70, 170n39
- Evens, Aden, 2
- evolution, Darwinian, 22–23, 25, 28, 33, 36–37, 43–45, 59, 68, 170n8
- extension: technological, 121, 132, 158, 169n31, 174n43; technology as, 5–6, 97–98
- Hansen, Mark B. N., 5, 11–12, 15–16, 77, 111–43, 145, 151, 153–58, 159, 161–62, 164, 168n22, 171n15, 177n73, 188n7, 190n1, 191n12, 193n48, 194n68, 197n80, 197n83, 197nn86–87, 197n97, 198n101, 198n112, 199n125, 203n29; and Internet passing, 140–43
- Haraway, Donna, 63–64, 171n15
- Harnad, Stevan, 28
- Harpold, 194n58
- hauntology, 14, 182n38
- Hayles, N. Katherine, 6, 8–9, 11, 26, 36, 42, 57–58, 63–91, 93–94, 97, 99, 101, 107–8, 113, 120, 130, 138–39, 151, 161, 164, 172n18, 173n33, 175n50, 176n61, 177n67, 180n5, 180n18, 180n21, 180n28, 181n34, 181n37, 182n53, 183n76, 184n78, 184n91, 185n105, 185n107, 186n114, 186n116, 187n126, 187n131, 189n9, 189n17, 193n48, 197n86, 201n10, 203n3, 203n5; and intermediation, 14–16, 63, 71–74, 76, 79, 81–82, 84, 86, 90, 99, 131, 133, 145, 159, 162, 182n40, 183n58
- Hegarty, Paul, 9
- Herbrechter, Stefan, 7
- Hiebert, Ted, 50–51, 179n14, 196n74
- hoax, 126–27, 195n72
- Holbein, Hans, 194n58
- homeostasis, 65
- Horkheimer, Max, 186n119
- Hrdy, Sarah, 178n84
- humachine, 7
- humanesis, 8, 10, 161
- humanism, liberal, 65, 75, 81–82, 88, 91, 161, 189n12
- hyperhuman, 39, 89
- hyperreal, 77
- ideological fantasy 37, 175n54
- illogic, 154–55
- illusion, 37, 98, 124, 127, 188n5, 196n75, 202n24; teleological, 69, 85
- imagination, 38, 53, 59, 85, 127, 194n58, 196n74
- immersion, 48, 52, 55, 96, 103, 134
- incommensurability (of sound and vision), 48, 56
- individualism, possessive, 75, 78, 81, 88–89
- information, 8, 13–15, 21, 23, 25–26, 32–33, 64–89, 97, 102, 120–21, 130–33, 164, 180n7, 185n98, 201n13; and data, 21, 26, 29, 31, 34, 39, 42–43, 47, 65, 86–7, 90, 93–94, 96–98, 103, 152, 164–65, 187n126; and noise, 66, 72, 85, 182n53, 201n16; technologies, 75, 89, 187n131
- infratactility, 155
- injunction: to mean, 37, 85, 106, 130; to measure, 34
- instrumentality, 54, 126–28
- intention, 23–24, 59, 80, 119–20
- interface culture, 5
- intermediation. See Hayles, N. Katherine
- Internet passing, 140–43
- interval (bodily spacing), 125
- Lacan, Jacques, 7, 34, 64, 78, 80, 82, 88, 89, 91, 100–102, 105, 114, 184n85, 185n98, 187n131, 189n12, 193n46, 194n58
- Langton, Christopher, 171n15
- Latour, Bruno, 176n58, 181n37
- law, 31, 125, 176n62; and file sharing, 77; of media (tetrad), 6, 162, 167n12, 169n33, 178n1; of nature, 66, 173n34, 186n119; and normative subjectivity, 101, 105–6, 142, 190n29; of reproduction, 22, 44
- Lazzarini, Robert, 16, 112, 121–22, 125
- Legible City, The (artwork), 187n3
- Lenoir, Tim, 121
- Leroi-Gourhan, André, 171n15
- locative, 94, 187n2
- logocentrism, 116, 118
- Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael, 11, 15, 93, 95–96, 98, 198n101
- Ludbots, 49, 51, 53–54
- Luhmann, Niklas, 137, 159, 177n74
- Luper, Stephen, 172n26
- Macy conferences, 65, 187n130
- Manovich, Lev, 5, 73–75, 84
- Massumi, Brian, 64, 179n4
- Maturana, Humberto, 66
- MaxMSP, 127–28, 196n76, 200n1
- Maxwell, Nicholas, 177n71
- McCulloch, Warren, 65
- McLuhan, Marshall, 6–7, 16, 30, 37–38, 44, 47, 107, 145, 155, 157–58, 162, 167n12, 170n39; phonetic alphabet in, 152, 181n36, 201n13; and the tetrad, 6–7, 167n12
- mean, injunction to. See injunction
- mediality, 9–10, 32, 38, 49, 51–52, 96–97, 107, 155, 168n22, 202n21
- mediascape, 30, 73
- melancholy. See Butler, Judith
- meme, 25–27, 29–30, 33, 38, 41, 45, 47, 159, 171n12, 173n39
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 119, 138, 197n97
- mimesis, 118–19
- Mirowski, Philip, 41–43, 177n67
- Moffat, Ellen, 11, 48, 50, 52, 54–56
- Moravec, Hans, 65
- morphological resemblance, 84–85
- Mudede, Charles, 9
- narrative, 5, 12, 15; and alibi, 35; and evolution, 22, 29–30, 35, 37, 58; and intermediation, 71, 73–74, 83–87, 90, 181n34, 183n58; and subjectivity, 101–2
- Neumann, John von, 65
- New Philosophy for New Media (Hansen), 111, 125, 190n1, 199n125
- Nisbitt, Richard, 174n47
- noise, information and. See information
- Noise, Water, Meat (Kahn), 1, 47
- normativity, 93, 98–99, 101–2, 105–6
- Parables for the Virtual (Massumi), 179n4
- parallax, 69
- Parasite, The (Serres), 178n2, 201n16
- parasitism, sound and, 1, 47, 156, 161
- Paroxysm (Baudrillard), 170n5, 172n20, 186n119
- pataphysics, 127–28, 195n69, 196n74
- pattern, dialectic of randomness and, 63, 67, 79, 151, 175n50, 180n7, 182n53, 201n10; informational, 74, 80, 165
- performativity, 11, 70, 72, 132, 141–42, 158; and deconstruction, 8
- possessive individualism, 75, 78, 81, 88–89
- Poster, Mark, 7, 31, 173n33
- posthumanism, technological, 7–8, 11
- Postman, Neil, 172n22
- praxis, 11, 168n26
- Precarious Life (Butler), 189n18, 190n22
- presensory, 56–57, 128, 130
- procedure, 7, 10
- Psychic Life of Power, The (Butler), 190n29
- psychoanalysis, 78, 91, 185n98
- randomness. See pattern, dialectic of randomness and
- regime of computation (RoC). See computation, regime of
- relationality, 4–5, 10, 63, 68, 73, 81, 97, 106–7, 183n59, 189n14; of desire, 99–100, 105, 158; of sound, 2, 16, 58, 128, 145, 152–54
- replication, replicators and, 23–28, 30, 34–35, 38, 44–45, 47, 178n80
- representationalism, 16, 112, 114–15, 127, 132, 141, 153, 191n12
- RFID, 184n78
- RoC. See computation, regime of
- Rushton, P. J., 174n47
- Sartre, Jean-Paul, 3
- Saussure, Ferdinand de, 72, 183n75
- schema, body, 138–39, 188n7, 197n97
- Schwanitz, Dietrich, 137, 191n17
- science: conditions of, 11, 167n12, 169n33, 170n1; and progressivism, 22, 39, 176n58; and truth claims, 14, 21–23, 33–39, 41–46, 175nn56–57, 177n74
- Seduction (Baudrillard), 202n24
- Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins), 25, 29, 57, 178n80
- selfish gene (theory), 11, 13, 21, 23, 25, 29–30, 43, 57–58, 183n61
- Serres, Michel, 47, 54, 57, 154, 178n2, 185n104, 201n16
- Shaw, Jeffrey, 187n3
- Shepherd, John, 157, 202n27
- simulation, 30, 39–40, 68, 74, 89, 127, 132, 134, 138, 159, 173n31, 188n6, 202n24
- singularity, 45, 178n83
- skeuomorph, 67, 180n21
- Skewed Remote Musical Performance (SRMP; artwork), 12, 16, 145–58
- skulls (artwork), 16, 112, 121–25, 128–29, 134, 194n58
- software, 6, 128; ideology, 81, 185n105
- sound, 1–4, 9–10, 16, 47–60, 96–98, 126–29, 167n3, 178n2, 188n5, 201n6, 202nn20–21; versus literal sounds, 2, 53–54, 145, 150–58, 196n77
- Sound (artwork), 16, 112, 126–29, 195nn69–72, 196n77, 196nn81–82
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 118
- Spooky, DJ, 9
- Stengers, Isabelle, 175n56
- Stiegler, Bernard, 171n15
- Sublime Object of Ideology, The (Žižek), 175n54, 181n33, 193n46
- SuperCollider, 146, 200n1
- survival machines, 24
- symbiotic relation, 84; and symbionts, 74, 80, 83, 90
- symptom, Žižekian, 69–70
- tautology, 13, 28–30, 36, 40, 57, 68, 172n26
- technesis, 16, 112, 114–15, 120, 131, 142
- technics, technicity and, 11, 55, 77, 117, 129, 131, 132–36, 138–39, 162, 171n15, 192n28, 197n80
- technogenesis, 111, 129, 133
- tele-embodiment, 98–99
- teleological illusion, 69, 85
- telepresence, 11–12, 15, 93–94, 97–99, 106–7, 188n6, 198n101
- tetrad (laws of media), 6, 162, 167n12, 169n33, 178n1
- Théberge, Paul, 128
- timbre, 3, 126
- Trace, The (artwork), 11–12, 15, 93–100, 102–7
- trace, arche-, 118, 175n50
- transhumanism, 13, 34, 65, 169n29, 169n31, 174n43
- trompe l’oeil, 157, 202n24
- value-form, 105, 190n28
- Varela, Francisco, 66, 135, 139, 180n18
- Videoplace (artwork), 188n7
- Viola, Bill, 76
- Virilio, Paul, 106–7
- virtual: -ity, 67, 93, 128–29, 170n39; and the actual, 78, 107, 134; architectures and spaces, 84, 96, 188n6; lebensraum, 98; music and sounds, 128, 157; reality, 27, 32, 102–3, 132–33
- vision, visibility and, 3, 9, 14, 47–49, 51, 53, 56–59, 93, 111, 121, 124–26, 128–29, 140–41, 157–58, 173n35, 182n45, 202n24
- visual space, 47–48, 152, 178n1
- vitality, 45
- vulnerability, 101–2, 190nn22–23