"Ki & the Powers of Japan"

CHAPTER OUTLINE
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Section I

ENERGY AND THE WEB OF LIFE
- The Political Economy of Ki -

Needling the Yellow Emperor : Ki in History

• China's discovery/perceptions of ki in the natural/physiological environment;
• Relation to prana, pneuma, ruach;
• Ki of heaven and earth: astrological/geomantic phenomena;
• Human body/social polity parallels: bio-social intimations.

Nectar and the Cauldron : Ki Incarnate

• Energy medicine: disciplines, drugs and rituals to manifest the energy body;
• Endo-incandescence: sexual ki, tantra and meridian intercourse;
• Mystic physiology: role of the tonsils, appendix and pineal crystals;
• Ki and the sense of self: individuation, assertiveness, libido, endocrine function and immune competence;
• Internal ki, focal chakras and personality/societal types;
• Attentional ki as determinant of consciousness, memory, identity.

Sizzle, Dazzle and Star: Ki in Society

• Attention, please: Japanese perceptions of social ki phenomena;
• Interpersonal ki: trade balances & addiction;
• Depersonalizing psychosomatic toll of chronic ki deficits;
• Ninki - charisma and crowd effects;
• Transpersonal ki bonds - tantric, compassionate and cerebral-vicarious;
• Psycho-social ki as existential nutrient.

Media, Movements and Flow-Alongs: Ki in the Body Politic

• Channeling: bio-social ki bonds and group attention structure;
• Ki leadership: fear, love and strange attracters;
• Commercial animadversions: ki pandering by the cubic second;
• Ki suction: 5th argument for elimination of television;
• Ki polarity: encephalization, sensual retardation and organizational development.

Time Wars: Ki and Humane Evolution

• KiQ: ki distribution curves & the topology of transcendence;
• Organic ki cycles: tribal/community models;
• Sustainable creation:maturation/individuation/genius;
• Internalizing acquisitiveness: antidotes to consumerism;
• Craft vs. corporate life.

Immunogentile Appendices

Dowsing the Grid: Meridian/Leiline/Attention Structure Maps

Hunting the Wild Tsubo: Points that Make a Difference

Compiling Ki Budgets: Discrete Dispersals vs. Circulating Synergy

Section II

CORPORATE ANTHROCULTURE
- This Business of Neoteny -

Social Organismics: Corporate Bodies as Dominant Life Forms

• Bio-precedents: ancestral collective/colonial organisms;
• Sonata for slime molds;
• Great body mutations and the fascist ideal - tribal/military/ecclesiastic models;
• Corpo-typology: symbionts, parasites, saprophytes and bottom feeders;
• Engineering adhesion: membranes, symbols, fear and insider consciousness.

Osaka Hanninmae: Reinventing Little People

• Who killed Adam Smith: the paralysis of the "Invisible Hand";
• The wasp's tale: the economics of corporate brood retention;
• Ballad of the wild anchovy: facultative vs. compulsory schoolers;
• Corporate body-building ideals: women and children - first, last, always.

Kyoto Senseis: Masterminding the Bonsai Puberty

• Hormonal engineering: the war on androgens;
• Estrogenizing adolescence: the politic economy of high stress schooling;
• Iemoto culture: disinventing graduation and perpetuating pupil/pupahood;
• Macrobiotic ball busting: unhip hops and the secrets of soy;
• Authoritarian endocrinology: Aunt Jemima and the buckwheat cake.

Tokyo Kaisha-shugi: Husbanding/Harvesting the Homuncell

• Pre-adolescent society: bondage, fashion and the reign of cute;
• Corporate booming: fad induction and market peristalsis;
• Situationally soluble ethics;
• Deconstructing democracy: participatory consensus vs. surrender to boss thought;
• Banzai salarimen and the Nanking Massacre;
• Slime mold sonata (reprise).

Cultural Caponization: Big Orgs and Memetic Eunuchs*

• Memes, genes and androgens: encephalizing emasculation;
• Return of the Child Buyer and the Ming eunuch's mother;
• Memetic vasectomies: disindividuation and "ism" clones;
• Corporate scale and homuncell culture;
• Beyond neoteny: waking up, breaking out, growing up.

Section III

GAIAN DIAGNOSTICS
- New Dimensions in Disease -

BIG Trouble: Mega-Corps as Planetic Pathogens

• Scale plague: escalating size and diminishing existential returns;
• Germ theory revisited: the Yellow Emperor in the rainforest;
• Multinational metastasis: despecialized growth syndrome and the corporate socionoma;
• Mega-pathogen perspectives on political/economic/cultural/environmental pathology;
• Silicon centralization: competitive evolution between human and corporate bodies.

Antibody Alert : Activism as Immune Response

• Immunological allegories: the body, the corps, the whole she-bang;
• Evoking the immunogentry: chaos networking and the planetary lymphocyte;
• Parable of the macrophage;
• Social anaphylaxis: the '60s re-aroused.

Saltation Now! : Empowering Person and Planet

• Inducing Omega: Gaianimism, bio-theology and the Net's first thought;
• Planetrysts: alpha synch, energy churning and collective epiphanies;
• Sensual tantrysts and identity transparency**;
• Toward planet-wide, bio-regional populism;
• Deliquescing daddy: socio-lysis, craft and worker control;
• Media medicaments: fumigating the zeitgeist.

**cf, Tantra for Terra Erotica.