Introduction : the unique phenomenon of a distance.-- eden by wire : webcameras and the telepresent landscape.-- Telepistemology: Descartes's last stand.-- Vicariousness and authenticity.-- Information, nearness, and farness.-- Acting at a distance and knowing from afar: agency and knowledge on the Internet.-- Telerobotic knowledge: a reliabilist approach.-- The speed of light and the virtualization of reality.-- To lie and to act : Potemkin's villages, cinema, and telepresence.-- Dialogical telepresence and net ecology.-- Presence, absence, and knowledge in telerobotic art.-- Exposure time, the aura, an d telerobotics.-- The history of telepresence : automata, illusion, and the rejection of the body.-- Feeling is believing : a history of telerobotics.-- Tele-embodiment and shattered presence : reconstructing the body for online interaction.-- Being real: questions of tele-identity.-- Telepistemology, mediation, and the design of transparent interfaces.-- The film and the new psychology (1945)

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