Metastasis and Metastability: A Deleuzian Approach to Information -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- SCOPE AND AIMS OF THIS BOOK -- Starting with Information -- NOTE -- CHAPTER 1: INFORMATION-IN-ITSELF -- THE PERENNIAL QUESTION: "WHAT IS INFORMATION?" -- INFORMATION AS NON-PHYSICAL -- R.A. Fisher -- Norbert Wiener -- Information is information, not matter or energy -- Claude Shannon -- Klaus Krippendorff -- INFORMATION AS PHYSICAL -- Michael Buckland -- Luciano Floridi -- Digital Ontology: The Rechnender Raum and the World as Computer -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2: SIMONDON INFORMATION -- INDIVIDUATION AND TRANSDUCTION -- SIMONDON INFORMATION -- INFOGENESIS? -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3: DELEUZE'S ONTOLOGY: BLACK BOX, WHITE NOISE -- PHILOSOPHY OF DIFFERENCE -- DIFFERENCE AND CONCEPT(UALITY) IN HEGEL AND DELEUZE -- THE VIRTUAL-INTENSIVE-ACTUAL: THE "BLACK BOX" OF TRANSCENDENTAL EMPIRICISM AND THE "WHITE NOISE" THAT IS THE VIRTUAL -- TRANSCENDENTAL EMPIRICISM -- Black Box, White Noise: Chaosmos -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4: STATES AND TERRITORIES -- WHAT JUST HAPPENED? THE EVENT AND INFORMATION -- HERACLITUS' BOW -- HERACLES' BOW -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5: METASTABILITY AND METASTASIS -- METASTASIS -- METASTASIS' SHADOW: APOPTOSIS -- COMMUNICATIVE DISPARITY -- METASTASIS AND HYPERTELY -- ENTROPY -- INFORMATION THEORY AND METASTASIS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6: A DELEUZIAN APPROACH TO INFORMATION -- DELEUZE AND GUATTARI'S DEFINITION -- DEGREES OF RELATION -- AGAINST DIGITAL ONTOLOGY AND DIGITAL METAPHYSICS -- FROM THE VIRTUAL TO THE CHAOSMOS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7: DELEUZE CONTRA CYBERNETICS -- SAINT LEIBNIZ -- THE CYBERNETIC PROJECT -- DELEUZE'S NIETZSCHE AND FORCE -- CHANCE, OR ALIA IACTA EST -- DELEUZE AND CYBERNETICS -- NOTES -- APPENDIX I: EX LIBRIS: A NOMAD INFORMATION SCIENCE? -- NOMAD INFORMATION SCIENCE -- EFFECTUATOR SYSTEMS.

SYSTEMS AND SIGNALS -- THE LIBRARY OF BABEL -- NOTES -- APPENDIX II: INFORMATICS, MEMETICS, RHIZOMATICS -- INFORMATICS -- MEMETICS -- MORE RHIZOMETRICO: RHIZOMATICS -- Stratification -- Rhizomatic Information? -- NOTES -- CONCLUSION -- ANSWERING HUMPTY DUMPTY? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.