1. Priced shut 1

 The week a price closed the sea 1

 A balance sheet against a premium 4

 What we mean by the Inversion 4

2. Not crying wolf 7

 Three circles 7

 What is new, exactly? 9

 From the inside 11

 The tempest’s intermission 13

3. From accident to instrument 14

 Beck and the accident 14

 Measuring and reading 15

 The banker who is no longer a person? 16

4. The instrument turned 16

 The index as foreign policy 16

 The hour of the predator 17

 Where we part from the coercion literature 17

 Hormuz, link by link 19

 Two more cases 21

5. The ghost and the body 21

 Ghost Intelligence, defined 21

 The Body 23

 Hermeneutic harm 23

6. Five new laws 24

 The First Law 25

 The Second Law 28

 The Third Law 30

 The Fourth Law 33

 The Fifth Law 36

7. Beyond the salon 39

 How Beck travelled 39

 A few recommendations 40

 Two obligations 42

 Who pays 42

 Why here 43

8. The munition was a quotation 43

 What the Predator feeds on 43

 The defence 43

 The clean page 44