Intro -- Contents -- List of Images -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Model Machine Myth -- 1. Labor Machines: Fighting the Mechanized Coolie in the Age of Industrial Slavery -- 2. War Machines: Assembling the Robotic Japanese Soldier under the Shadow of Empire -- 3. Sex Machines: Exploiting the Bionic Woman of Color for the Cold War Economy -- 4. Virtual Machines: Containing the Alien Cyborg during the Era of Late Capitalism -- 5. Global Machines: Reconfiguring the Roboticized Asian within the New Millennium -- Epilogue: On Posthuman Historical Futures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.