39 Microlectures Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	What is a microlecture?	25
	Repetition	31
	A misunderstanding	33
	Learning to read	34
	W	35
	Proliferation and suffering	37
	Multiplicity	38
	Criticism	41
	The example of glass	43
	The example of windows	44
	The example of rain	46
	Pedagogy	49
	The unlearnable	51
	Anthem	52
	The ceremony	54
	Beginnings	57
	The first chapter	59
	The first line	61
	The first beginning	64
	Hair	67
	Two invitations	69
	Our Cancer	70
	Learning how to leave the world	72
	Women and directing	75
	The Creature from the Black Lagoon	77
	Everything about life	79
	Slow thinking	81
	Beauty	82
	Body through which the dream flows	84
	Technologies of dying	87
	What is a machine?	89
	What BECOMES a machine?	90
	Memory of a cloud	91
	TOMORROWLAND	93
	The Golem of Prague	94
	How does a work work where?	97
	What is a work?	99
	What is work?	100
	What is where?	101
	The kaleidoscopic self	103
	What is a barbarian?	105
	The stalwart words of Gibson's Wallace	106
	The kaleidoscopic self	108
	Waiting for the Barbarians	109
	What is the world?	110
	Three noteworthy departures	113
	Nancarrow x 3	115
	In Memoriam to Kathy Acker	116
	Not eulogizing Lawrence Steger	117
	Failure	121
	Failure: an elegy	123
	To the reader-2	127
	Source Notes	129
	Bibliography	197
	Introduction to the Index	205
	Index	207