Contents
Introduction: Forms of Disposal
Part I. The Informatics of Value
1. Things Communicated: Messages, Persons, Goods
2. Reliable Circuits, Unreliable Components: How Capital Connects
3. The Informatics of Dispossession
4. Differentiation as Regulation
5. Two Models: Samuel R. Delany’s Neveryóna
Part II. Media Histories of Disposal
6. Human Use, or The Digital-Liberal Person
7. Elemental Space: Coloniality and Flexibility
8. Deplorable Alternatives: “Mechanical Slaves” and Upgradable Labor
9. The Digital Atlantic: Sondra Perry’s Typhoon coming on
10. Redundant Life: Intellectual Workers and Street Nuisances
11. Anatomizing “Freedom”: Carceral Digitality
12. The Cybernetics of Capacity: R.S. Hunt’s “Two Kinds of Work”
Coda: The Human Surge
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index