Table of Contents

Introduction, David Savat; Control; 1. Deleuze and Machines: A Politics of Technology?, William Bogard; 2. Of Rhizomes, Smooth Space, War Machines and New Media, Verena Conley; 3. Deleuze's Objectile: From Discipline to Modulation, David Savat; 4. How to Surf: Technologies at Work in the Societies of Control. Bent Meier Sorensen; 5. Chemical-Control: From the Cane to the Pill, Abigail Bray; Becoming: 6. Politics in the Age of Control, Saul Newman; 7. Smash the Strata! A Program for Techno-Political Evolution, Tauel Harper; 8. Deleuze and the Internet, Ian Buchanan; 9. Swarming: Number vs. Animal?, Eugene Thacker; 10. The Body without Organs and Internet Gaming Addiction, Ian Cook; 11. Deleuze's Concept in the Information-Control Continuum, Horst Ruthrof; 12. Illusionary Perception and Cinema: Experimental Thoughts on Film Theory and Neuroscience, Patricia Pisters; 13. Surface Folds: The Archival Events of New Medialised Art, Tim Murray; Afterword, Mark Poster; Notes on Contributors; Index

About the Author

Dr David Savat is Chair of Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia. Mark Poster is Professor of History and a member of the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine.