Around the Book: Systems and Literacy

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i n d e x Abrahamic religion, 91, 126, 144, 148, 159, 188, 189, 192, 298n10 Acceleration, 5, 19–21, 26, 50, 57, 77, 78, 101 Acupuncture, xxii, 231, 234, 239, 254, 302n13 Addiction, 56, 88, 93, 137, 255, 267–68. See also Alcoholism; Drug Adorno, Theodor, 18, 176 Alcoholism, 249, 252–53, 263–69 Allegorist, 43, 45, 46, 142, 223 Allegory, 34, 38, 39, 43–46, 58, 62, 64, 86, 103, 115, 129, 142, 148, 154, 180, 222, 223, 269, 298n9; and schizophrenia , 306n54 Allende, Salvador, 191 Althusser, Louis, xx Amazon, Inc., 1, 40 Analog: media, xvi; language, 237–38; computers, 237, 238–39; and systems organization, xviii, 71, 236, 237, 239–40, 245; and Chinese medicine, 237, 239 Animals, 5, 79, 167, 213, 245, 277n3, 300n30; and Benjamin, 116, 117, 224; and Kafka, 49, 53–54, 65, 89, 93, 121, 128–29, 283n1, 286n5, 287n18, 306n48 Anthropologist: role of, 98, 249, 252, 262, 263; as systems theorist, 263–264. See also Social science Aragon, Louis, ix, 64, 70, 71 Architecture, 47, 119, 200, 252; and graphic novels, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 309 75; and Deleuze/Guattari, 15, 19, 247; of systems, xi, 11, 17, 20, 196, 198, 210, 232, 233, 236, 271, 272; of books, xviii, 8, 13, 22, 47, 48, 109, 110, 113, 135–36, 141; and Derrida’s Glas, 163; 164, 165–67, 172; and Kafka, 53–55, 60, 62, 73, 89, 92, 96; and Benjamin, 56–58, 60, 63, 135– 36, 171, 175, 178, 180, 186–89, 193 Archiving, x, 2, 18, 20, 65, 74, 75, 88, 192, 229 Arendt, Hannah, 109–10, 246 Art: as unmotivated activity, 260–61 Artaud, Antonin, 139, 145, 148, 219 Artificial intelligence, xix, 15, 17, 18 Assemblage, 4, 14–15, 19–22, 47, 63, 167, 247, 265 Atmosphere: and mood, 58, 218–43 passim . See also Climate; Weather Authority, 7, 53, 84, 112, 140, 143, 151, 174, 259, 270 Autopoeisis, xix, 11, 18, 19, 48, 50, 59, 141, 198, 200, 208–11, 212, 269, 273 Balinese culture: and complementarity 259–61 Balzac, Honoré de, 56, 105 Barthes, Roland, 18, 25, 122, 219, 238, 245, 250, 298n9 Bataille, Georges, 113 Bateson, Gregory: and critical theory 247, 262, 271 310 Index and computer science 247, 248, 269 and communication, 245, 247–50, 261–274 and Deleuze/Guattari 247–248 and Derrida 251–53, 262, 306n48 and ethics 248–49, 272–74 and Lacan 248, 253, 262 and mystical apprehension, 255–56 and the notion of steps 249–50 Baudelaire, Charles, 42, 44, 46, 56–57, 59, 60, 88, 127, 135, 139, 142, 143, 195, 219, 221–24 Beckett, Samuel, 86, 104, 176, 249, 286n5, 286n10 Beinfield, Harriet and Efrem Korngold 231, 232, 234 Bell Labs, 201 Benjamin, Walter, xiv, xvi, 9, 14, 18, 22, 102, 107–37, 147, 148, 218–39, 245, 250, 269 ‘‘A Child’s View of Color,’’ 118 and animals, 116, 117, 224 The Arcades Project, xvii, 40–48, 56–60, 63, 64, 94, 111, 113, 135–37, 143, 218 and architecture, 56–58, 60, 63, 135– 136, 171, 175, 178, 180, 186–89, 193 and citation, 43–48, 109, 135, 136, 218, 220–23 and climate, 220–28, 231 and display, 40–45, 46, 48, 58, 136, 218, 223, 231 and encyclopedic production, 113, 135, 225 and fashion, xvi, 43, 57, 218, 221–22, 225–27, 231 as print medium website, 40, 41, 56, 112 and turbulence, 200, 220–25, 231 and weather, 43, 56–57, 218–25 and climate, 220–28, 231 Berlin Childhood Around 1900, 111, 214 and children, 114–21, 127, 213, 215 ‘‘The Critique of Violence,’’ 108, 122– 30, 127 ‘‘Food Fair,’’ 108 ‘‘Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death,’’ 108, 121, 126– 127, 128–30, 134 ‘‘Goethe’s Elective Affinities,’’ 119–20, 130–31, 138 and law, 111, 117–18, 123–27, 129, 144 and libraries, 42, 45, 112–14, 120–22, 133–34 Old Forgotten Children’s Books, xvi, 114, 115, 120, 128 ‘‘One-Way Street,’’ 108, 111, 120, 126, 214 ‘‘On the Image of Proust,’’ 134, 136 ‘‘On Some Motifs in Baudelaire,’’ 135, 139, 142, 143, 195, 282n63 The Origin of German Tragic Drama, 95, 113 and play, 215–17 and poetry, xviii, 40–46 passim, 129, 224–25 and shock, 94, 111, 115, 133–34, 215 ‘‘Unpacking my Library,’’ 114, 290n6 ‘‘The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,’’ 111 Bergman, Ingmar, 86, 105–6 Bergson, Henri, 15–20 Bernard, Claude, 234...