Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
PROLOGUE: "THE MOST PRIMITIVE QUESTION" ......................... 1
I Past and Present - From the "System of The World" to
a World Full of Systems .................................... 15
1 ENGAGING SYSTEM ......................................... 17
2 HISTORIES FOR SYSTEMS ................................... 43
II Mediating Knowledge - System and the Fate of
Enlightenment .............................................. 79
3 THE PROJECT OF ENLIGHTENMENT (MASTER SYSTEMS) ........... 81
4 DISCIPLINARITY (EMBEDDED AND SPECIALIZED SYSTEMS) ...... 121
III Connectivities - System and the Instituting of Modernity .. 147
5 BLAMING THE SYSTEM - INSTITUTING THE POLITICAL ......... 149
6 WRITING UPON SYSTEM - INSTITUTING CULTURE .............. 171
7 SECRETLY SEEKING SYSTEM - INSTITUTING THE SOCIAL ....... 203
Coda .......................................................... 225
Re:ENLIGHTENMENT (ALGORITHMICALLY ENHANCED SYSTEMS) ........ 227
Appendix A: Notes on Visualizations ........................... 241
Appendix B: Tides Containing Essay(s) in the Plural versus
the Singular .............................................. 247
Notes ......................................................... 249
References .................................................... 267
Index ......................................................... 301
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