The UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. The Call of Technology

• Delay Call Forwarding
• Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm
• Trauma TV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle
• State of the Art: Julia Scher's Disinscription of National Security

II. Freedom and Obligation: Minority Report on Children, Addicts, Outlaws, and Ghosts

• On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested
• Toward a Narcoanalysis
• Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas
• Preface to Dictations

III. Psyche – Soma: The Finite Body

• A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship
• The Disappearance and Returns of the Idiot
• Talk: The Philosophical Code: Dennis Cooper's Pacific Rim (2001)

IV. Danke! Et Adieu: On Hookups and Breakups

Three Hometown Talks:

• The Sacred Alien (1997)
• On Friendship; Or, Kathy Goes To Hell (2002)
• Loving Your Enemy (2003)

V. The Fading Empire of Cognition

• Slow Learner
• The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche's Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test)
• Koan Practice Or Taking Down the Test
• Is It Happening?

Index

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