Table of Contents
Part 1 Mackerel Sky 1
Prologue 2
Chapter 1 Sweet Music 19
Atmospheres for Content 25
Silent Vector-Graph of the Somatic Gamer 35
Listening to the Weather 43
Chapter 2 Enchantment can be Formalised 51
Lexachast Desire and Representation 58
Zone of Uncertainty 63
Stochastic Magic 73
Meatspace and The Wired 79
Chapter 3 Revenant Speed: Spirits of the Singularity 94
Malediction and Cyber-Nihilism 99
Zoom Zoom Fragmentation as Progress? 106
Crisis is an Energy 120
Exit Music 1 124
Part 2 Flooded World 133
Prologue 134
Chapter 4 Oil Music 140
Cellophane Ghost Nets 144
Virtual Ambience for the End of the World 152
Chapter 5 Chimeric Flesh and the Hyper-Child 165
The Hyper-Child 168
A Slimy Coming of Age 175
Chapter 6 Whispered Honesty 193
The Gentle Rub of Designer Suit Material 195
Disappearing Irony 199
Epilogue: An Abandoned Oil Rig Stands in for the Garden of Eden 208
Acknowledgements 213
Notes 214