Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction: On Spirals -- 1. Definitions: A Brief History of Spirals (and a Way of Reading Spirally) -- 2. Entering the Whirlpool: 'Pataphysics, Futurism, Vorticism -- 3. Twinned Towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the Unfashionable Performance of Internationalism -- 4. L'Habite en Spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the Ineluctable Visibility of Entropy -- 5. At the End of the Jetty: Beckett . . . Smithson. Recoil . . Return -- In Conclusion: The Spiral and the Grid -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index