Acknowledgments Introduction ARTHUR AND MARILOUISE KROKER CODE BREAKERS Traumas of Code N. KATHERINE HAYLES A Game of Cat's Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies DONNA J. HARAWAY Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions SARA DIAMOND Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON NEW DIGITAL MEDIA All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software MATTHEW KELLY Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe TONY D. SAMPSON A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse JACKSON 2BEARS Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism NICK DYER-WITHEFORD AND GREIG DE PEUTER Archaeologies of Media Art JUSSI PARIKKA IN CONVERSATION WITH GARNET HERTZ TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE Precision + Guided + Seeing JORDAN CRANDALL Understanding Meta-media LEV MANOVICH Black Box, Black Bloc ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY Biophilosophy for the 21st Century EUGENE THACKER Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour D. FOX HARRELL POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION INFORMATION AND POWER Communication and Imperialism JAMES TULLY Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People's Archive GREGORY SHOLETTE Tell Us What's Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror SAMUEL NUNN Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics MICHAEL DARTNELL Virilio's Apocalypticism MARK FEATHERSTONE GENDER AND SEXUALITY The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary JAIMIE SMITH-WINDSOR Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and Other 'Novel' Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media RACHEL C. LEE Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study MICHA CÁRDENAS RELIGION AND SOCIETY Circuits, Death, and Sacred fiction: The City of Banaras MAHESH DAAS Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology ARTHUR KROKER Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh STEPHEN PFOHL CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION PERCEPTION The Aura of the Digital MICHAEL BETANCOURT When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial JOAN HAWKINS Distraction and Digital Culture WILLIAM BOGARD PERFORMANCE Metal Performance: humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About STEVE DIXON Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency STELARC Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc's Prosthetic Head JULIE CLARKE Slipstreaming the Cyborg FRANCESCA DE NICOLÒ IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTINA MCPHEE SOUND Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub) JULIAN JONKER Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image PAUL D. MILLER (DJ SPOOKY) The Turntable CHARLES MUDEDE Bibliography Contributors.