Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction / Jonathan Leal and Carol Vernallis
Part I: AI and Robotics
1. Could the AI of Our Dreams Ever Become Reality? / Jay McClelland
2. Director Alex Garland Converses with Cybermedia's Scientists and Media Scholars / Jonathan Leal and Carol Vernallis
3. (S)Ex Machina and the Cartesian Theater of the Absurd / Simon D. Levy and Charles W. Lowney
4. Epiphany, Infinity and Transcendent AI / Zachary Mason
Part II: Big Data, Sentience, and the Universe
5. A MASSIVE Swirl of Pixels: Algorithms in Radiohead's 'Go to Sleep' / Steen Ledet Christiansen
6. The Rise of the Machine: Body-Knowing, Neural Nets, and Emergent Freedom / Charles W. Lowney
7. The Quantum Computer as Sci-Fi's Favorite Character / Leonardo P. G. De Assis
8. Composer Ben Salisbury Discusses Scoring Science for Alex Garland / Holly Rogers, John McGrath, Carol Vernallis, and Dale Chapman
9. Ex Machina and the Question of Consciousness / Murray Shanahan
Part III: The Neuroscience of Affect and Event Perception
10. 'A Solid Popularity Arc': Affective Economies in Black Mirror's 'Nosedive' / Dale Chapman
11. Cognitive Boundaries, 'Nosedive' and Under the Skin: Interview with Jeffrey Zacks / Carol Vernallis, Jonathan Leal, and Dale Chapman
12. Toward an AI Future of Comics Study and Creation: A Cognitive-Affective Approach / Frederick Aldama and Laura Wagner
Part IV: The Digital West
13. The Philosophy of Westworld / Paul Skokowski
14. New Visions of the Old West: A.I., Self, and Other in Westworld / Christopher Minz
15. Scoring Music for Westworld Then and Now: A Cognitive Perspective / Annabel J. Cohen
Part V: Interface, Desire, Collectivity
16. Director Terence Nance Discusses Random Acts of Flyness / Carol Vernallis, Jonathan Leal, Holly Rogers, Liz Reich and the contributors of Cybermedia
17. The Gift of Black Sonics: Interface and Ontology in Sorry to Bother You and Random Acts of Flyness / Liz Reich
18. Technology, Chaos, and the Nimble Subversion of Random Acts of Flyness / Eric Lyon
19. Expecting the Twist: How Media Navigate the Intersections Among Different Sources of Prior Knowledge / Noah Fram
20. Face Color / Bevil Conway
Part VI: Productive Neuropathologies
21. Digital Vitalism / Marta Figlerowicz
22. Neuroplasticity: From Experience to Healing / Sara Ferrando Colomer
23. Where is My Mind? Mr. Robot and the Digital Neuropolis / Patricia Pisters
24. Dopamine Circuits: Wanting, Liking, Habits, and Goals. An Interview about Mr. Robot with Neuroscientist Talia Lerner / Jonathan Leal, Carol Vernallis, and Patricia Pisters
25. The Taste of Cybermedia: An Interview with Hojoon Lee, The Lee Lab at Northwestern University / Julia Peres Guimaraes, Selmin Kara, and Carol Vernallis
Index.