Contents
Introduction: Learning to Scale
Part I. Algorithms for a Theory of Scale
1. Distance and Resolution: The First Experiential Origin of Scale
2. Measurement and Perspective: The Second Experiential Origin of Scale
3. Scope and Accumulation: The Third Experiential Origin of Scale
4. To the Bottom: The First Thought Experiment in Scale
5. From the Top: The Second Thought Experiment in Scale
6. In the Scalar Simulation: The Third Thought Experiment in Scale
Part II. Configurations for a Theory of Scale
7. In-formations of the Whole: Scalar Configurations of Objects
8. I Am the Transhuman Cosmos: Scalar Configurations of Subjects
9. Cutting and Claiming Everything: Scalar Configurations of Relations
Part III. Rhetorical Technologies for a Theory of Scale
10. Mapping the Vast Unknowing: The Science of Scale, the Scale of Science
11. The Cosmos Seeing Itself: Representations of Scale, Scales of Representation
12. Transformations by Involution: The Contemplative Practices of Scale, Scaling Contemplation
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index