Becoming Beside Ourselves
the alphabet, ghosts, and distributed human being

Spring 2008, Duke U. Press

Introduction Lettered Selves and Beyond

PART I
Chapter 1 The Alphabetic Body
1 the alphabetic West
2 human gesture
3 emblem gestures
4 gesticulation
5 gestures of the voice
6 writing speech
7 textual brains

Chapter 2 Gesture and Non-Alphabetic Writing
a gesture inside mathematics
1 Merleau-Ponty's triangle
2 Chatelet and diagrams

b gesturo-haptic writing
1 the curiously archaic present
2 notating against capturing
3 motion capture
4 writing 
5 technologized subjectivity

INTERLUDE
Chapter 3 Technologized Mathematics
1 machines and mathematics
2 a model of mathematical activity
3 local and global transformations
4 infinity inside the computer?
5 conclusion

PART II
Chapter 4 Parallel Selves
1 technoid subjects
2 serial and parallel
3 computing subjects
4 imaging subjects
5 ... on the brink of I 

Chapter 5 Ghost Effects
1 The I 
2 Virtual X
3 Symbolic ghostliness
4 Deus ex Machina
5 Jewish I : Jahweh
6 Greek I : Psyche
7 The infinite mathematical agent
8 Network I : Future ghosts?