Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1
Terminal Constructedness & the Technology of the Self: Vanilla Sky

The Technological/Self
Livin’ the Dream
The Mediatized Body
Open Your Eyes
Terminal Choice

CHAPTER 2
Gongs of Violence, Pathological Play: The Cut-Ups

Pathologizing the Subject
Cognitive (Cut-Up) Mapping
Soft Machines
The Reality Film
Gongs of Violence

CHAPTER 3
Schizosophy of the Medieval Dead: Army of Darkness

Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Postmodern Slavery
Pop Doppelgänger
The Metaphor of the Zombie
Back to the Matrix

CHAPTER 4
“Capitalizm” Unbound: Jennifer Government

The Ideology of Hyperconsumption
(Later) Late Capitalist Identity
Tattoos and Ontology
Commodity Warfare

CHAPTER 5
Terminal Choice: The Matrix Trilogy

Comic Book Worlds
Towards a Neurorealism
The Freud-Thing
The Nature of/Is Technology
Capitalism and Science Fiction

CODA