Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • xiii Acknowledgments
  • xv Introduction
  • Photo album follows page xxxvi
  • PART I The Call of Technology
  • 5 1. Delay Call Forwarding
  • 38 2. Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm
  • 63 3. Trauma TV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle
  • 89 4. State of the Art: Julia Scher's Disinscription of National Security
  • PART II Freedom and Obligation: Minority Report on Children, Addicts, Outlaws, and Ghosts
  • 101 5. On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested
  • 128 6. Toward a Narcoanalysis141 7. Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas
  • 145 8. Preface to Dictations
  • PART III Psyche-Soma: The Finite Body
  • 161 9. A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship
  • 168 10. The Disappearance and Returns of the Idiot
  • 188 11. the Philosophical Code Dennis Cooper's Pacific Rim
  • PART IV Danke! et Adieu: On Hookups and Breakups
  • 205 12. The Sacred Alien: Heidegger's Reading of Holderlin's Andenken
  • 227 13. On Friendship; Or, Kathy Goes to Hell
  • 240 14. Loving Your Enemy
  • PART V The Fading Empire of Cognition259 15. Slow Learner
  • 293 16. The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche's Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test)
  • 307 17. Koan Practice of Taking Down the Test
  • 324 18. Is It Happening?
  • Index
  • back cover