Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Influence of Anxiety
Chapter 1: The Aesthetic Object
A break in Transmission: Art, Appropriation and Accumulation
Chapter 2: The Love Object
Relations with Concrete Others
(or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Berlin Wall)
Chapter 3: The Elusive Object
"Look at the Bunny": The Rabbit as Virtual Totem
(or, What Roger Rabbit Can Teach Us About the Second Gulf War)
Chapter 4: The Media(ted) Object
From September 11 to the 7-11:
Popular Propaganda and the Internet's War on Terrorism
Chapter 5: The Shared Object
Abandoned Commonplaces: Some Belated Thoughts on Big Brother
Chapter 6: The Moveable Object
Public Transport: Jaunting from the Spaceship Nomad to the HSS Tampa
Chapter 7: The Foreign Object
The Floating Life of Fallen Angels
Unsettled Communities and Hong Kong Cinema
Chapter 8: The Abject Object
Sovereignty, Sacrifice and the Sacred in Contemporary Australian Politics
Conclusion
A Spanner in the Works
Notes
Index