Prologue: Intense Idyll
Introduction: Geometry in the Monstrous
The Project of Metaphysical Globalization
The Atlas
The Parmenidean Moment
Carrying God
The Morphological Gospel and Its Fate
Access: Anthropic Climate
Dawn of Long-Distance Closeness
The Thanatological Space, Paranoia and the Peace of the Realm
Vascular Memories
On the Reason for Solidarity in Its Inclusive Form
Arks, City Walls, World Boundaries, Immune Systems
The Ontology of the Walled Space
Excursus 1: Dying Later in the Amphitheater
On Postponement, the Roman Way
Excursus 2: Merdocracy
The Immune Paradox of Settled Cultures
The Ontological Proof of the Orb
Excursus 3: Autocoprophagia
On Platonic Recycling
Excursus 4: Pantheon The Theory of the Dome
Deus sive sphaera, Or: The Exploding Universal One
Excursus 5: On the Meaning of the Unspoken Statement
"The Orb Is Dead"
Anti-Spheres
Explorations in the Infernal Space
Parenthesis: On Depression As a Crisis of Extension
How the Spheric Center Has Long-Distance Effects through the Pure Medium
On the Metaphysics of Telecommunication
Excursus 6: The De-crowning of Europe
An Anecdote about the Tiara
The Last Orb
On a Philosophical History of Terrestrial Globalization
Transition: Air Conditioning
Notes
Photographic Credits