Styling life --The gay science (What is life?) / Sanford Kwinter -- Getting engaged: the global image economy -- An incomplete manifesto for growth -- What is good? -- Transformation loop -- a studio is not a tree -- Notes -- Life expectancy -- Model city -- Shelf life -- Corpus -- Staying alive -- Imprint -- Zone life -- 100 logos, 1000 colors -- Necrophilia and extrapolation -- Spectacle or forum -- Audition -- Inventing a voice -- The spelling of Mr. Kwinter's proper name -- Chris Marker's favorite photos -- Education Olivia -- Seeking Fred's approval -- Soft "O" -- Figure and ground -- The United States of Switzerland -- Turning solids to fluids -- Waltzing with Frank -- Go-go -- Can we envision -- Twelve strategies -- S, M, L, XL -- Meeting Mr. Johnson -- Don't be fooled -- The culture of energy -- Pop culture -- Cloaking devices -- RiverLab -- Tree city -- Storage and retrieval -- Record and playback: text, image, movement, sound, object, life.

Meeting John Cage -- Reading: shaping time -- Sameness and difference -- A woman of a certain age -- Frank Gehry: new bentwood furniture designs -- Robin Collyer: idioms of resistance -- The Michael Snow project -- Douglas Gordon -- through a looking glass -- Chasing Napoleon: forensic portraits -- Perfection, way, origin -- Dan Flavin: the architecture of light -- ReMembering the body -- Growth as an event -- Design culture -- The life and times of Osunkemi -- Sace age -- Genextrapolation -- Love connection -- How to get ahead of advertising -- Pearl River delta -- An immodest proposal -- Questionnaire -- Speaker swinging -- Every day was different -- Remote -- The dance of the difficult image -- Book machine -- Killing: a body of knowledge -- Love for sale -- What will be.com of us? -- Bruce Mau: designer or not?