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

Justin Clemens lectures in cultural theory, aesthetics, and literature at Deakin University in Australia. Dominic Pettman is currently teaching in the Masters of Digital Media Program at the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn.