Anaïs Nony, PhD is a digital theorist and research associate at the Center for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. Over the last decade, she has published articles in journals such as Philosophy Today, Cultural Critique, Intermédialité, French Review and Parallax as well as book chapters in edited volumes. Taken together, this body of work addresses debates about how technology and art shape and affect societies. Her work engages cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and governmental technologies of behavioural surveillance and control to address critical changes in the structure and formation of contemporary societies. She is the founder of The Write Technique.

• Introduction: Video: Between Technology and Performance Chapter 1: The Volume-Image of Video Technology Chapter 2: Zones of Modulation: Video as a Space-Critical Medium Chapter 3: Programmed Life and Racialized Technesis Chapter 4: Video and the Technical Milieu of Desire Conclusion: Performative Images as Objects of Philosophical Inquiry Artworks cited Index Acknowledgments