Introduction: The Light That Leaps
1. Fire and Truth
2. Facing the Unknown
3. Three Theories of Psychotic Sight
4. The Mass in Spanish
5. Notes Toward a History of Skywriting
6. Vapor Trails
7. Confetti Uncut
8. The Luminosity of the Nose
9. Joy in Repetition
10. In Lies Begin Responsibilities
11. The Founder of Empires
12. Writing the History of Time
13. On the Ball
14. The Singing of the Grid
15. The Archive of Ice
16. Tombstones and Toys
17. Two Bubbles, and a Third
18. Catch and Release
19. A Wheel in a Wheel
20. Reambiguation
21. Relational Economics
22. Flotsam
23. The Bonds of Catastrophe
24. Spiders, Stars, and Death
25. Metachrotic Swan Song
26. On Love

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index