Introduction: Circumnavigation: world/listening/dwelling -- Toward the Chora: Kristeva, Derrida, and Ulmer on emplaced invention -- Invention in the wild: on locating Kairos in space-time -- Ambient work: networks and complexity in an ambient age -- Music@microsoft.windows: composing ambience -- Rhetoric, language, attunement: Burke and Heidegger -- The rhetorical thing: objective, subjective, ambient -- Ambient dwelling: Heidegger, Latour, and the fourfold thing -- Attuning to sufficiency: a preparatory study in learning how to dwell -- Conclusion: Movement, Heidegger's silence, disclosure. |