Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Poetry in Motion by Tom Gunning -- Preface -- Sex Talk -- Before Agreement -- Rewire/Speak in Disagreement (with Sally Silvers) -- Melodrama and Montage (On Nicholas Brossard/Hannah Weiner) -- Sex Talk (with Camille Roy) -- Sade's Motor -- Active Theory -- Active Theory 2: Antiphon -- Matrix -- Cross-Referencing the Unites of Sight and Sound/Film and Language -- Hand Signals Overcome Noise, Distance -- Lined Up Bulk Senses (On Larry Eigner) -- All Three Mixed Please -- "In the Darkest Night Dart These Bright Saloons" (On Manuel DeLanda/Vivienne Dick/Henry Hills) -- Word of Mouth (On Aline Mayer) -- Memory Works (On Len Lye) -- Hand Signals 2 (On Mary Lattimore/Nancy Miller/Anita Miles) -- Baroque Cinema (On Warren Sonbert) -- Deselective Attention (On Peter Kubelka/Martin Arnold/Bruce Conner/Arthur Lipsett) -- Sound Talk -- Antiserum (On Luis Bunuel/Dan Eisenberg) -- Outside Topographies: Three Moments in Film (On Anday Warhol/Dziga Vertov) -- The Exhibit and the Circulation (On Dziga Vertov/Sergei Eisenstein) -- Interrogations -- Time Corners Interview (With Charles Bernstein) -- Prefaces -- Preface for Prefaces: Part 1 of "Is This What You Were Born For?" -- Mutiny -- Locales Intervew (With Michael Amnasan) -- Covert Action -- So This Is Called Moving? Interview (With Madeline Leskin) -- Mayhem -- A Motive for Mayhem -- Mercy -- The Furnished Frame and the Social Net -- Being a Witness: Notes for B/side -- Notes -- Selected Works by the Author -- Index.