Contents

Introduction: Learning to Scale

Part I. Algorithms for a Theory of Scale

1. Distance and Resolution: The First Experiential Origin of Scale

2. Measurement and Perspective: The Second Experiential Origin of Scale

3. Scope and Accumulation: The Third Experiential Origin of Scale

4. To the Bottom: The First Thought Experiment in Scale

5. From the Top: The Second Thought Experiment in Scale

6. In the Scalar Simulation: The Third Thought Experiment in Scale

Part II. Configurations for a Theory of Scale

7. In-formations of the Whole: Scalar Configurations of Objects

8. I Am the Transhuman Cosmos: Scalar Configurations of Subjects

9. Cutting and Claiming Everything: Scalar Configurations of Relations

Part III. Rhetorical Technologies for a Theory of Scale

10. Mapping the Vast Unknowing: The Science of Scale, the Scale of Science

11. The Cosmos Seeing Itself: Representations of Scale, Scales of Representation

12. Transformations by Involution: The Contemplative Practices of Scale, Scaling Contemplation

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index