List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1 Anti-computing: a provisional taxonomy2 Discontinuous continuity: how anti-computing time-travels3 A most political performance: treachery, the archive, and the database4 No special pleading: Arendt, automation, and the cybercultural revolution5 Polemical acts of rare extremism: Two Cultures and a hat6 Apostasy in the temple of technology: ELIZA the more than mechanical therapist7 Those in love with quantum filth: science fiction, singularity, and the fleshConclusion: Upping the anti: a distant reading of the contemporary momentIndex