""Front cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""xiii Acknowledgments""; ""xv Introduction""; ""Photo album follows page xxxvi""; ""PART I The Call of Technology""; ""5 1. Delay Call Forwarding""; ""38 2. Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm""; ""63 3. Trauma TV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle""; ""89 4. State of the Art: Julia Scher's Disinscription of National Security""; ""PART II Freedom and Obligation: Minority Report on Children, Addicts, Outlaws, and Ghosts""; ""101 5. On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested""

""128 6. Toward a Narcoanalysis""""141 7. Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas""; ""145 8. Preface to Dictations""; ""PART III Psyche-Soma: The Finite Body""; ""161 9. A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship""; ""168 10. The Disappearance and Returns of the Idiot""; ""188 11. the Philosophical Code Dennis Cooper's Pacific Rim""; ""PART IV Danke! et Adieu: On Hookups and Breakups""; ""205 12. The Sacred Alien: Heidegger's Reading of Holderlin's ""Andenken""""; ""227 13. On Friendship; Or, Kathy Goes to Hell""; ""240 14. Loving Your Enemy""

""PART V The Fading Empire of Cognition""""259 15. Slow Learner""; ""293 16. The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche's Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test)""; ""307 17. Koan Practice of Taking Down the Test""; ""324 18. ""Is It Happening?""""; ""Index""; ""back cover""