TechnoLogics: Ghosts, the Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Laying Down the Power Grid 1. Call Forwarding 13 2. On-(the)-Line 21 3. The Platonic Teleport 41 II. Ghosts in the Machines 4. The Elixir of Life 69 5. The Immortality Machine of Capitalism 79 6. Bartleby the Incalculable 93 III. The Suspension of Animation 7. The Drone of Technocapitalism 123 8. The Psychotelemetry of Surveillance 143 9. Temps: Time, Work, and the Delay 171 Conclusion: Heeding the Phantomenological 193 Notes 203 Works Cited 213 Index 221 vii ...