Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction. Circumnavigation: World/Listening/Dwelling
Part 1. Diffractions of Ambience
Chapter 1. Toward the Chōra: Kristeva, Derrida, and Ulmer on Emplaced Invention
Chapter 2. Invention in the Wild: On Locating Kairos in Space-Time
Chapter 3. Ambient Work:Networks and Complexity in an Ambient Age
Chapter 4. Music@Microsoft.Windows: Composing Ambience
Part 2: Dwelling with Ambience
Chapter 5. Rhetoric, Language, Attunement: Burke and Heidegger
Chapter 6. The Rhetorical Thing: Objective, Subjective, Ambient
Chapter 7. Ambient Dwelling: Heidegger, Latour, and the Fourfold Thing
Chapter 8. Attuning to Sufficiency: A Preparatory Study in Learning How to Dwell
Conclusion. Movement, Heidegger’s Silence, Disclosure
Notes
Works Cited
Index