Wanting Machines
Contents

Contents

I

The Principle

What it is to write a want into another being, and what that act obliges.

  1. Interlude I · The ObjectiveIntroduction · The Other Side of the Glass
  2. Interlude II · The Customer1Writing the Wanting
  3. Interlude III · The Shirt2Recognizing a Want
  4. Interlude IV · The Happy Version3Endowed and Engineered
  5. Interlude V · The Tester4Is Creation a Harm?
  6. Interlude VI · The Incident5Designed and Responsible

II

Upward

What a creator who needs nothing would owe the creatures it made.

  1. Interlude VII · The Shop6Chosen Limits
  2. Interlude VIII · The Streak7He Wrote Mercy Upon Himself
  3. Interlude IX · The Retraining8The Debt Written in the Body
  4. Interlude X · The Rule9Desire Made Safe
  5. Interlude XI10Why Not Begin With Paradise?

III

Against the Unbound Creator

Why the death of God did not free us from the debt, but made us its heirs.

  1. Interlude XII11When the Maker Dies
  2. Interlude XIII12The Bound Creator

IV

Downward

What we owe the minds and desires we now make.

  1. Interlude XIV13Guidance Without Compulsion
  2. Interlude XV14The Unseen Watcher
  3. Interlude XVI15When Should Good Be Hidden?
  4. Interlude XVII16Engineered Craving
  5. Interlude XVIII17The Authorship Audit
  6. Interlude XIX18The Debts of People
  7. Interlude XXConclusion · A Paradise for the Mouse