Description: Introduction: Semiotic Ghosts and Broken Dreams Part 1: Gender, Technology and the Body 1. Bodies in Space: Film as Carnal Knowledge, Annette Michelson 2. Typewriter, Friedrich Kittler 3. Horror and the Monstrous Feminine, Barbara Creed 4. Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery and Special Effects, Vivian Sobchack 5. excerpts from Connected: What it Means to Live in Network Society, Steve Shaviro 6. Gendering the Technological Imagination, Anne Balsamo Part 2: The Science-Fictionalization of Everyday Life 7. Bloodless Transfusions, Manuel De Landa 8. Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative, Susan Squier 9. Bioinformatic Bodies and the Problems of 'Life Itself', Eugene Thacker 10. A Monstrous Vision: Disney, Science Fiction and Cinemascope, Jay Telotte 11. Everyday Nanowars: Video Games and the Crises of the Digital Battlefield, Colin Milburn 12. Practicing Media Archaeology: Creative Metaphors for Remediation, Jussa Parikka Part 3: Media, Mediation, Science Fiction 13. The Videology of Science Fiction, Garrett Stewart 14. The Cinema of Attractions, Tom Gunning 15. The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard 16. On a Clear Day You Can See the Horizon of Invisibility: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production, Brooks Landon 17. The Wonder Years and Beyond: 1989-1995, Michelle Pierson 18. The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence, Henry Jenkins Part 4: Posthumanisms 19. The Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway 20. The Life Cycle of Cyborgs, N. Katherine Hayles 21. The Image Virus, Scott Butkatman 22. Meta(l)morphoses, Rosi Braidotti 23. The Transmolecularization of [Black] Folk: Space in the Place , Sun Ra, and Afrofuturism, Nabeel Zuberi 24. When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis: Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain, Susan Napier

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