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Contents

Acknowledgements

vii

Preface: Stimmung

viii

1 Literature

1

Where language works

1

With style

5

Excess philosophy

11

Freedom or else

18

The work of literature

27

2 Intermedium

34

It/A virtual screen

34

Can thought be streamed?

41

Unbearability

53

Bursting infrastructure

62

Dispositioned

65

3 Intramedium

69

Where was she?

69

Nonoccupied

76

Receptivity

83

Dying voices

89

Literature in Love

95

4 Film

98

A black line wriggling

98

Filmed style

101

With the without

105

The poetry of cinema

108

Unworkability

110

Living in a dead world

117

5 Film

120

Excommunication

120

The Filmic age

125

v

vi Contents

Buster and Beckett's Cameras 140