MIND FACTORY ed. Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-104-0. (paperback) 340pp. Published: December 2005 CONTENTS Slavoj �i�ek The De-Sublimated Object of Post-Ideology Ben Goertzel Quantum Minds Ivan Havel At Home in Vesm�r Louis Armand Affective Intelligence & the Human Hypothesis Donald F. Theall From the Cyberglobal Chaosmos to the Gutenberg Galaxy Arthur Bradley The Letter Giveth Simon Critchley & Tom McCarthy Universal Shylockery Darren Tofts Mind Games McKenzie Wark Allegorithm Gregory L. Ulmer Choramancy: A User�s Guide Andrew Mitchell Torture & Photography Arthur & Marilouise Kroker Cloner Zoe Beloff Natalija A. & Eva C. Jane Lewty Syntonic Desire Mind Factory explores a mosaic of ideas and practices currently surrounding the question of cognition, mind, literacy, autopoiesis and tele-technologies, and how these define a contemporary "human condition." Essays included in this volume address a range of subjects from the Abu Ghraib torture photographs, brain implants and behavioural control, to the possibility of quantum minds and machine intelligence, to the technicity of faith, sintonic desire, ideoplastic materialisation and psychic geographies. Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other.