Vera Bühlmann is Professor for Architecture Theory and Director of the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP at Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

• ForewordChapter one: IntroductionThe plan of this bookChapter two: Quantum literacyElementary indecisionCommunication versus production: Bearing witness, and literacyCultivating indecision: The quantum domain’s domesticityCiphers, zeroness, equations: Architectonics of nothingChance-bound objectsTaking ignorance into account: Quantifying strangenessEntropy and negentropyThe price of information as a measure for an object’s strangenessQuantum literacy: Towards a novel theory of the subject‘La Langue est une Puissance’Chapter three: Chronopedia I: Counting timeMeteora: The wisdom of the weatherCode: A rosetta stone, a double staircaseTime modelled as contemporaneityCounting time: Equinox and solsticeThe turning points for modelled beginnings and endsOf tables and modelsSense means significance and directionMeteoraA logos genuine to the world – ‘Le Logiciél Intra-Matériel’Software, hardwareEconomy of maxima and minima: An anarchic logosChapter four: Chronopedia II: Treasuring timeHomothesis as the locus in quo of the universal’s presence1st iteration (acquiring a space of possibility)2nd iteration (learning to speak a language in which no one is native)3rd iteration (setting the stage for thought to comprehend itself)4th iteration (intelligence that is immanent and coextensive with the universe)5th iteration (inventing a scale of reproduction)6th iteration (the formula, a double-articulating application)The amorous nature of intellectual conception1st iteration (marking all that is assumed to be constant with a cipher)2nd iteration (confluence of multiple geneses)3rd iteration (the residence of that which is genuinely migrational)4th iteration (universal genitality)5th iteration (mathematics is the circuit of cunning reason’s ruses)6th iteration (the real as a black spectrum)Chapter five: Banking universality: The magnitudes of ageing MetaphysicsThe quickness of a magnanimous universeInvariance: Genericness in terms of entropy and negentropyGenuine and immanent to the all of time: Le ‘logiciel intra-matériel’White metaphysics: How old does the world think it is?FreedomThe neutral element: Materialism of identity(Pan’s) glossematics: The economy that deals with ‘purport’Quanta of contemporaneity: Heat to incandescence, storage to bank accountQuantum writing: Substitutes step in to address things themselvesChapter six: The incandescent Paraclete: Tables of plentyEquatoriality generalizedComing of age, liking sunset and sunriseHow to combine precision with finesse or: euphoria contained by instruments that behave like cornucopiaThe (mathematical) inverse of Pantopia is not a utopia: Law in the panonymy of the whole worldThe objective mentality and character of instrumentsThe vicarious order of knowledge that is authentic to the worldPan: The excitable subject of universal knowledgeGenerational con-sequentialityBlessed curiosityExodic discourseChapter seven: Sophistication and anamnesis: Retrograde movement of truth, remembering an abundant pastThe currency of knowledgeThe price of truth, and the price of informationThe convertibility of truthClassicism: Remembering contemporaneityClassical analysis, symbolical analysisInterlude: The Tower of Eiffel, archetypical symbol of existentialism?Building a cipherA corpus of intelligent formsThe technical order of an object that is comfortableHow to reason the sum total of all archetypes?Towards critique with regard to the symbolic alchemy of myth-makingA realist classicismFamiliarizing ourselves as strangers, native to the universeThe domain of the quasi: Instructive analysis, character dispositionsHow can reason in general learn from singularities?Of genealogical and of tabular orders: Eating ‘next to’ (parasite)Heterogeneous scales, logistical uniformality (forms of operation)Indexical address: The referential of the centreRespecting order by challenging itCunning ruses: The anarchic architectonic way of paying respectHow to address the third-person singular?Augmentation, not authorshipAnarchic civility, and the meanings of culturesChapter eight Coda: Quantum literacy and architectonic dispositioningArchitecture and philosophyChapter zero: Instead of a conclusion: The static tripodNotesBibliography

What happens when we take mathematics not as the elementary basis upon which science must bloom, but as an ‘architectonics’ that unfolds the world as it informs mass, space and time? With great rigor, in content and style, Bühlmann reads the concepts that Michel Serres produced in his oeuvre through his mathematics and information theory, revealing his highly original, inclusive and affirmative philosophy of the 21st century.