Pt. 1. Virtualities as Fictions of Presence. 1. Virtualities: A Conceptual Framework. 2. The News As Performance: The Image As Event -- Pt. 2. Immersion in Image Worlds: Virtuality and Everyday Life. 3. Television Graphics and the Virtual Body: Words on the Move. 4. An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television. 5. What Do Cyborgs Eat? Oral Logic in an Information Society -- Pt. 3. Media Art and Virtual Environments. 6. The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-Between: Video Installation Art. 7. Cyberscapes, Control, and Transcendence: The Aesthetics of the Virtual.