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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Prologue: Computing Kin | p. 1 |
Making: Language and Code | |
Intermediation: Textuality and the Regime of Computation | p. 15 |
Speech, Writing, Code: Three Worldviews | p. 39 |
The Dream of Information: Escape and Constraint in the Bodies of Three Fictions | p. 62 |
Storing: Print and Etext | |
Translating Media | p. 89 |
Performative Code and Figurative Language: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon | p. 117 |
Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl | p. 143 |
Transmitting: Analog and Digital | |
(Un)masking the Agent: Stanislaw Lem's "The Mask" | p. 171 |
Simulating Narratives: What Virtual Creatures Can Teach Us | p. 193 |
Subjective Cosmology and the Regime of Computation: Intermediation in Greg Egan's Fiction | p. 214 |
Epilogue: Recursion and Emergence | p. 241 |
Notes | p. 245 |
Works Cited | p. 265 |
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