Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber

Table of Contents

c o n t e n t s Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Experimenting simon morgan wortham and gary hall 1 1. ‘‘God Bless America!’’ samuel weber 3 2. Of Debts, Dreams, and Jokes: or, Weberian Theatricality simon morgan wortham 44 3. Technica Speciosa: Some Notes on the Ambivalence of Technics in Kant and Weber peter fenves 85 4. Surfing Technics: Direction and Dispersion in the Age of Information r. l. rutsky 102 5. IT, Again: How to Build an Ethical Virtual Institution gary hall 116 6. Ambivalence: Media, Technics, Gender marc redfield 141 7. Modernism and the Medium: On Greenberg and Weber andrew mcnamara 159 8. It Walks: The Ambulatory Uncanny susan bernstein 183 9. On Risk-Taking in the Psychoanalytic Text: The Reality Test avital ronell 209 10. Going Along for the Ride: Violence and Gesture—Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes samuel weber 218 Notes 231 Selected Works in English by Samuel Weber 263 Contributors 267 Index 271 v ...