• List of Illustrations • Acknowledgments • Introduction: The Body in the Machine • Sampling and Folding: The Digital and the Baroque • Natural History and Digital History • Virtuality: Actualizing Bodies, Abstracting Selves • Interfaciality: From the Friendly Face of Computing to the Alien Terrain of Informatic Bodies • Digitality: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm for Information • Postscript: Emerging Tendencies in Embodied Information Aesthetics • Notes • Bibliography • Index