Delusive spaces : essays on culture, media and technology / Eric Kluitenberg

Introduction: Navigating the delusive spaces of media and technology ; I. Archaelogies of the machine: Archaeology. Discourse analysis, media archaeology, the megamachine, libdinal mechanics ; Cosmic Machine. Assessing the clockwork metaphor of the heavens ; Time machine. On Machines for measuring time and machines for travelling in time ; Body machine/Machine body. Excess of the libidinal machine ; War machine. The formation of the modern war machine and the disciplined Machine body ; Libidinal machines/Imaginari media. On machines that mediate impossible desires ; II. Politics and uses. The post-governmental condition. Politics beyond the Government ; The intensification of time. Speed, ubiquity and the vision machine ; The politics of cultural memory. Identity, belonging and necessity ; Freedom. Cyberspace independence and contemporary gnosticism ; Constructing the digital commons. A venture into hybridization ; Mingdful disconnection. Counterpowering the panopticon from the inside ; The pleasure of the medium. Jouissance and the excess of writing ; The society of the unspectacular. Leaving debord behind ; Virtual life. Can there be such a thing as community in the infosphere? ; Media without an audience. Networked presence and radical privatisation ; Mediate yourself!. Create your own solutions ; III. Questioning the unrepresentable: The unrepresentable. Infinity, rupture and the secret ; Transfiguraton of the avant-garde. The negative dialectics of the net ; A sublime encounter. Observations on art and terrorism ; The sublime unrepresentability of war. Silence of the disaster