Introduction: Cultural techniques, or, The end of the intellectual postwar in German media theory
1. Cacography or Communication? Cultural techniques of sign-signal-distinction
2. Eating Animals-Eating God-Eating Man: Variations on the Last Supper, or, The cultural techniques of communion
3. Parlêtres: The cultural techniques of anthropological difference
4. Medusas of the western Pacific: The cultural techniques of seafaring
5. Pasajeros a Indias: Registers and biographical writing as cultural techniques of subject constitution (Spain, 16th century)
6. (Not) in Place: The grid, or, cultural techniques of ruling spaces
7. White spots and hearts of darkness: Drafting, projecting and designing as cultural techniques
8. Waterlines: Striated and smooth spaces as techniques of ship design
9. Figures of self-reference: A media genealogy of the trompe-l'Doeil in 17th-century Dutch still life
10. Door Logic, or, The materiality of the symbolic: From cultural techniques to cybernetic machines