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Critical digital studies : an introduction / Arthur and Marilouise Kroker -- Code breakers: 1. Traumas of code / N. Katherine Hayles -- 2. A game of cat's cradle : sign studies, feminist theory, cultural studies / Donna Haraway -- 3. Reframing the cathedral : opening the sources of technologies and cultural assumptions / Sara Diamond -- 4. Romancing the anto-body : lust and longing in (cyber)space / Lynn Hershman Leeson -- Technology, identity, and surveillance: 5. Precision + Guided + Seeing / Jordan Crandall -- 6. Understanding meta-media / Lev Manovich -- 7. Warcraft and utopia / Alexander R. Galloway -- 8. The age of blur and technology / Nate Burgos -- 9. Biophilosophy for the 21st century / Eugene Thacker -- 10. Hypervirus : a clinical report / Thierry Bardini -- 11. Alegbra of identity : skin of wind, skin of streams, slin of shadows, skin of vapour / D. Fox Harrell -- 12. The ambiguous panopticon : Foucault and the codes of cyberspace / Mark Winokur --

Politics, gender, and religion. Information and power: 13. Communication and imperialism / James Tulley -- 14. Tell us what's going to happen : information feeds to the War on Terror / Samuel Nunn -- 15. Grammar of terrorism : captivity, media, and the critique of biopolitics / Michael Dartnell -- 16. Infomobility and technics : some travel notes / Belinda Barnet -- Gender: 17. The cyborg mother : a breached boundary / Jaimie Smith-Windsor -- 18. When taste politics meet terror : the critical art ensemble on trial / Joan Hawkins -- 19. Virtually queer? Homing devices, mobility, and un/belongings / Mary Bryson, Lori Macintosh, Sharalyn Jordan, Hui-Ling Lin -- Religion and society: 20. The passion of the social : reflections on the Seattle rave killings / Andrew Wernick -- 21. Digital cosmologies : religion, technology, and ideology / Arthur Kroker -- 22. Technologies of the Apocalypse : the Left Behind novels and flight from the flesh / Stephen Pfohl -- 23. Terri Schiavo : bride of 'Compassionate conservatism' / Augustine of Epcot and his scribe Daniel White -- Cities: 24. 21st century graffiti : Detroit tagging / Jeff Rice -- 25. Circuits, death, and sacred fiction : the city of Banaras / Mahesh Senagala -- 26. Louis Armstrong International Airport : post-Katrina meditation / Richard Carlson --

Culture, communication, and media. Perception: 27 Welcome to Google Earth / Anna Munster -- 28. Distration and digital culture / William Bogard -- 29. The rebirth of the author / Nicholas Rombes -- Bodies: 30. Metal performance : humanizing robots, returning to nature, and camping about / Steve Nixon -- 31. Prosthetic Head : intelligence, awareness, and agency / Stelarc -- 32. Simulated talking machines : Stelarc's Prosthetic Head / Julie Clarke -- 33. Slipstreaming the cyborg : interview with Christiana McPhee / Francesca de Nicolò in conversation with Christina McPhee -- Sound: 24. Black secret technology (The Whitey on the moon dub) / Julian Jonker -- 35. The turntable / Charles Mudede -- 36. Silent theory : aurality, technology, philosophy / Frances Dyson.