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Introduction | p. xi |
The Axis of Factual Success: From Controlling Circumstances to Colonizing Consciousness | |
Technology and the Biasing of Conduct: Establishing the Grammar of Our Narrative | p. 3 |
Primordial Technology in the Drama of Childhood | p. 4 |
Freedom as a Dialectic of Projecting Self and Objecting World | p. 8 |
The Canons of Freedom and Moral Transparency: In Technology and the Media We Trust | p. 19 |
The Imagined Neutrality of Technology | p. 20 |
Individual Freedom and the Obdurate, Objecting World | p. 27 |
Just Saying No to the Logic of Choice | p. 32 |
Technology as Savior: It's Getting Better, Better All the Time | p. 35 |
Technology: The Original Broken Promise | p. 39 |
Toward an Ethics of Resistance | p. 52 |
The Direction of Technical Evolution: A Different Kind of Caveat | p. 55 |
Cultivating Discontent: Advantaging Existence--Living Apart and at a Distance | p. 56 |
The Corporation as Technology | p. 61 |
The New Colonialism: From an Ignoble Past to an Invisible Future | p. 67 |
Extending Control through Cultivating Dependence: The Colonial Method | p. 68 |
The Evolution of Colonial Intent into the Development Objective and Beyond | p. 73 |
The Colonization of Consciousness | p. 79 |
Pluralism versus the Commodification of Values | p. 87 |
Is There a Universal Technological Path? | p. 94 |
Independent Values, the Value of Independence, and the Erosion of Traditions | p. 99 |
Practicing the Unprecedented: A Buddhist Intermission | |
Appreciative Virtuosity: The Buddhist Alternative to Control and Independence | p. 105 |
Liberating Intimacy: A New Copernican Revolution | p. 106 |
Responding to Trouble: The Character of Buddhist Technologies | p. 111 |
Technological Difference: The Case of Healing | p. 116 |
Unlocking the Treasury: A Matter of Will or the Fruit of Offering? | p. 125 |
Practicing the Dissolution of Wanting | p. 129 |
The Wheel of Dramatic Impoverishment: The Crisis of Community in the Information Age | |
Concentrating Power: Are Technologies of Control Ever Truly Democratic? | p. 137 |
Control and the Conflicts of Advantage | p. 138 |
Mediated Control and the "Democratic" Process | p. 142 |
The Societal Nature of a Controlling Advantage | p. 146 |
Just Saying No: A Case History of Technical Dilemma | p. 150 |
The Meaningless Politics of Generic Democracy | p. 156 |
Narcissism and Nihilism: The Atrophy of Dramatic Attention and the End of Authentic Materialism | p. 161 |
Rationalizing Subjectivity: The Imperative Splitting of the Nuclear Self | p. 162 |
Nothing Really Matters Anymore, Not Even Matter | p. 165 |
Iconography and the End of Materialism | p. 166 |
Losing Our Direction: The Iconic Roots of Boredom | p. 169 |
From Perception to Conception: Deepening the New, Lock Groove | p. 176 |
The Commodity-Driven Translation of Desiring into Wanting | p. 181 |
The New Meaning of Biography: The Efficient Self in Calculated Crisis | p. 187 |
Commerce and Commodity: The New Grammar and Vocabulary of "I Am ..." | p. 189 |
The Efficiency of Stress: Controlling Time and Misguiding Attention | p. 192 |
The Infertility of Expert Mind | p. 195 |
The Victimization of Suffering: An Expert Inversion | p. 198 |
The Commodification of Dramatic Meaning | p. 204 |
Consuming and Being Consumed: The Law of the Postmodern Jungle | p. 209 |
The Rationality of Litter: Consuming Self, Consumed Community | p. 213 |
The Production of Biographical Litter: Changing Minds in an Age of Lifestyle Choices | p. 222 |
The Digital Age and the Defeat of Chaos: Attentive Modality, the Media, and the Loss of Narrative Wilderness | p. 229 |
A Reason to Be Naive: Disparities in the Metaphysics of Meaning | p. 231 |
Calculation and Narration: Disparate Modes of World-Making | p. 235 |
The Digital Defeat of Analogy: The Numerology of Rational Values | p. 238 |
The Media and Digital Trouble: Suffering Alone Together | p. 245 |
Mediation and Mediocrity | p. 248 |
Media and the Declining Narrativity of Popular Culture | p. 255 |
The Mediated Wilderness | p. 258 |
The Density of Postmodern Time and Space and the Craving for Volume | p. 265 |
So What? | p. 271 |
Bibliography | p. 289 |
Index | p. 295 |
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