Table of Contents

Series Preface - Griselda Pollock
Introduction - Antony Bryant and Griselda Pollock
1 Traumas of Code - N. Katherine Hayles
2 Of Mice and Mien: Or Perhaps of Mouses and Mien?
(anyway with apologies to John Steinbeck) - Antony Bryant
3 A Virtual Indication - Samuel Weber
4 The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat - Brian Massumi
5 For a Comparative Film Studies - Paul Willeman
6 'Night Passage': The Depth of Time - Trinh T. Minh-ha interviewed by Alison Rowley
Notes
Index

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Examines the twists and turns of the contesting terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theory in relation to history, trauma, sexuality, textuality, anxiety, simulated lives, code, digital cinema, science fiction, and contemporary art.

About the Author

Antony Bryant is Professor of Informatics at Leeds Metropolitan University and author of 'Thinking Informatically' (2006) and co-editor of 'The Handbook of Grounded Theory' (2007). Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds and author of 'Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum' (2007).