Book Description

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 Narcoanalysis -- 141 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 Cognition -- 259 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