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[6], 604, [18] p. : ports. ; "A brief account of the most memorable transaction ." has special t.p. on p. [517]. ; Frontispiece portraits. ; Includes index. ; Beginning to p. 7 from University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library copy spliced at end. ; Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Issues and Problems in the History of Pornography -- Wanderers, Entertainers, and Seducers: Making Sense of Obscenity Law in the German States, 1830–1851 -- Censorship in Republican Times: Censorship and Pornographic Novels Located in L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1800–1900 -- Anti-Abolition Writes Obscenity: The English Vice, Transatlantic Slavery, and England's Obscene Print Culture -- The Rise of the Overly Affectionate Family: Incestuous Pornography and Displaced Desire among the Edwardian Middle Class -- Old Wine in New Bottles? Literary Pornography in Twentieth-Century France -- A Perfectly British Business: Stagnation, Continuities, and Change on the Top Shelf -- Global Traffic in Pornography: The Hungarian Example -- Ideologies of the Second Coming in the Ukrainian Postcolonial Playground -- Stripping the Nation Bare: Russian Pornography and the Insistence on Meaning -- Walking on the Wild Side: Shemale Internet Pornography -- Contributors -- Index

[116] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; Mountelion is a pseudonym. Attributed to Thomas Flatman. Sometimes also attributed to John Phillips. ; In two parts. Part 2, "the second and last part", has a separate dated title page, with imprint which reads: London, printed by T. Leach, for Hen. Marsh, at the Princes Arms in Chancery-lane near Fleetstreet, 1661; register is continuous. ; Signatures: pi² A-O⁴. ; A political satire in the form of a chivalric romance. ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- 1. Aesthetics, Vision and Speed: An Introduction to Virilio and Visual Culture -- 2. The Illusions of Zero Time -- 3. Towards a New Ecology of Time -- 4. Strangers to the Stars: Abstraction, Aeriality, Aspect Perception -- 5. Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of 'Genuine Knowledge' -- 6. Light Weapons/Darkroom Shadows: Photography, Cinema, War -- 7. History in the 'Mise en Abyme of the Body': Ranbir Kaleka and the 'Art of Auschwitz' after Virilio -- 8. Spectres of Perception, or the Illusion of Having the Time to See: The Geopolitics of Objects, Apprehension and Movement in Bashir Makhoul's Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost -- 9. The Event -- 10. The Face of the Figureless: Aesthetics, Sacred Humanism and the Accident of Art -- 11. What We Do is Secrete: On Virilio, Planetarity and Data Visualisation -- 12. Relics of Acceleration: A Field Guide -- 13. The Production of the Present -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Long Cold War -- I Pattern Recognition -- 1 The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know -- 2 Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards -- 3 Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts -- II The Persistence of the Nuclear -- 4 The Meaning of Monte Bello -- 5 Deep Geological Disposal and Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo -- 6 Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity -- 7 Alchemical Transformations? Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989 -- III Ubiquitous Surveillance -- 8 'The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies': The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker -- 9 The Signal-Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology -- 10 'Bulk Surveillance', or The Elegant Technicities of Metadata -- IV Pervasive Mediations -- 11 Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower -- 12 Insect Technics: War Vision Machines -- 13 Overt Research -- 14 Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Emergence -- Introduction -- 1. Poststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy -- 2. From Marxism to Poststructuralism -- 3. From Structuralism to Poststructuralism -- Part II: Methods -- Introduction -- 4. A History of the Method: Examining Foucault's Research Methodology -- 5. Derrida, Deconstruction and Method -- 6. Écriture Féminine -- 7. Schizoanalysis: An Incomplete Project -- Part III: Themes -- Structure and Subject -- Introduction -- 8. Structure and Subject -- 9. How do we Recognise the Subject? -- 10. Foucault: The Culture of Self, Subjectivity and Truth-telling Practices -- Language and Text -- Introduction -- 11. Derrida's Language: Play, Différance and (Con)text -- 12. Hélène Cixous and the Play of Language -- 13. Luce Irigaray: An Ode to A-(Luce) -- Form and Institution -- Introduction -- 14. Photography and Poststructuralism: The Indexical and Iconic Sign System -- 15. Deleuze and the Image of Film Theory -- 16. The Museum of Now -- 17. Institutions, Semiotics and the Politics of Subjectivity -- Resistance and Limit -- Introduction -- 18. 'Here and Nowhere': Poststructuralism, Resistance and Utopia -- 19. The Powers of the Outside in Deleuze and Cixous -- 20. Politics in-between Nihilism and History -- Part IV: Trajectories -- Introduction -- 21. The Receptions of Poststructuralism -- 22. From Liberation Theory to Postcolonial Theory: The Poststructuralist Turn -- 23. The Pharmacology of Poststructuralism: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler -- Conclusion: Poststructuralism Today? -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index