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Part I. Intellectual Histories of the Information Age
Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin's New Experiments of 1751 / Laura Rigal 23
From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project / David DePew 47
The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics / Ronald E. Day 76
Part II. Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses
More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale's Tours, IMAX, and Motion Simulation Rides / Lauren Rabinovitz 99
Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States / Judith Babbitts 126
The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi 150
Part III. Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion
Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History / John Durham Peters 177
Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls / Lisa Gitelman 199
Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics / Scott Curtis 218
Part IV. Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects
Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media / N. Katherine Hayles 257
Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions / Thomas Swiss 283
Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime / Vivian Sobchack 305
Selected Bibliography 331
Contributors 335
Index 339
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