A
Abandonment
Abjection
Abject materiality
Activism
See also Political struggle; Resistance
Acxiom Corporation
Adam Smith Institute
Adaptation
Addiction
Advertising campaigns
“Be More Human,”
“Human Element,”
Affect
Affective labour
Agamben, Giorgio
The Open
Ahmed, Sara
Alaimo, Stacy
Albedo modification
“Alt right,”
American Enterprise Institute
Anderson, Warren
Animality
Animal rights movement
Animals
diseases and
humans and
See also Hybrid species
Animal’s People (Sinha)
Anthropocene
Anthropocentrism
Anthropological machine
Anti-utopian dystopia
Apocalyptic narratives
capitalism and
dystopia and
Apple
Arboreal model of speciation
Archibald, John
Artificial intelligence
Asexual reproduction
See also Reproduction
Atom bomb
Atwood, Margaret
Oryx and Crake
Authenticity
B
Bacon, Francis
Bacteria
Barad, Karen
Bayh-Dole Act
Becker, Gary
A Treatise on the Family
Behavioural economics
“Be More Human” campaign (Reebok)
Berlant, Lauren
Bewilderment
genre and
Bhabha, Homi, “Of Mimicry and Man,”
Bhopal disaster
legal liability
media coverage
Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster Act
Bildungsromans
Biochemical interactions
Bio-engineering
Biological Technologies Office (BTO)
“Biology is Technology” (slogan)
Biomedicine
human capital theory and
Biopolitical control
Biopolitics
capitalism and
disciplinary institutions and
Biotech century
Biotechnology
Christian imagery and
human capital theory and
humanities and
as moblie disciplinary technology
poor people and
prosthetic technologies and
repugnance and
social norms and
transhumanism and
See also Corporate biotechnology
Black characters
Black Mirror (television series)
Blair, Tony
Bliss, Catherine, Race Decoded
“Blue marble” photograph
Bodies
animality and
corporate domesticity and
posthuman
reproduction and
See also Posthuman bodies
Booker, Charlie
Booker Prize
Boom-bust cycles
Bostrom, Nick
Boundary crossing
See also Fences
Bouson, J. Brooks
BP
Braidotti, Rosi
Brand, Stewart
Breach, Sue
Bridgewater, Judy, “Never Let Me Go,”
Brin, Sergey
Broad, William
Brouillette, Sarah
Brown, Wendy
Undoing the Demos
Burdekin, Katherine
Bush, George W.
C
Cameron administration
Campsite
Canavan, Gerry
Capitalism
biopolitics and
end of
free trade and
Capitalist realism
Carbon capture and storage
Catastrophes
industrial
Catastrophic genre
Cato (think tank)
Cell phones
Cellular replacement
See also Biotechnology
Chakrabarty, Dipesh
Chemistry
See also Biochemical interactions; Toxic chemicals
Chen, Mel
Chevron
Chicago School of Economics
Chicago School SuperFreakonomics
Choice architecture
Christian imagery, biotechnology and
The Circle (2017)
Cisco
Civilization
European imperialism and
metrics of
posture and
techno-science and
violence and
Class-consciousness
Claxton, John
Client-state model
Climate change
affect and
global action on
See also Global warming
Clinton, Bill
Clones
“humane” treatment of
kinship and
mobile discipline and
neohumanist subjectivity and
as posthuman figures
See also Human cloning
Club of Rome
Collective action
See also Activism
Colonialism
Colonization
civilization and
violence of
See also Imperialism, European/western
Commodity fetishism
Communities, alternative
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Computers
Connolly, William, The Fragility of Things
Consumption
Anthropocene and
biotechnology
clones and
ecocide and
male
pornography and
regenerative body and
Contagion (2011)
Control
See also Biopolitical control
Cook, James
Cooper, Melinda
Corporate biotechnology
biopolitical control and
neoliberalism and
social control and
See also Biotechnology
Corporate domesticity
animals in heat
destruction of
online pornography and
reproduction and
sexual difference and
Council of Bioethics
Creativity
Crick, Francis
CRISPR-Cas technique
Critical dystopia
CRI Worldwide
Crutzen, Paul
Cultural discrimination
Culture, discipline and
Cyborgs
Cynicism
D
Dagognet, Fancious
Data surveillance
See also Surveillance
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
DDT (pesticide)
Debts
Decay
Deep ecology
Deepwater Horizon explosion
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Deforestation
Deleuze, Gilles
“On the Death of Man and Superman,”
Diamond, Jared, Collapse
Difference
evolution and
tolerance of
Disasters
environmental
See also Bhopal disaster
Disciplinary architecture
Disciplinary institutions
biopolitical management and
biopolitics and
individuals and
Disciplinary power
Disciplin
ary subjects
Diseases
DNA
Dolly (cloned sheep)
Domesticity
See also Corporate domesticity
Dow Chemical
“Human Element” campaign
Dunning, Stephen
Dursban
Dystopian narratives
anti-utopian
apocalypse and
corporate domesticity and
critical dystopias
surveillance and
techno-fixes
utopian elements in
E
Earth
“blue marble” photograph of
geological epochs
Easter Island
Ecocide
Ecological crises
Economic competition
social struggles and
violence toward animals and
Economic inequality, see Inequality
The Economist, “Biology’s Big Bang,”
Economy
disciplinary subjectivity and
human capital theory and
postindustrial
Elliott, Carl
Elliott, Jane
“Suffering Agency,”
Ellison, Larry
Empathy
ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements)
England
Enlightenment humanism
Environmental change
See also Climate change; Global warming
Environmentalist movement
Environmental technologies
neoliberalism and
Escapism
Eurocentrism
Eusociality
Evolution
feminism and
as posthuman biopolitics
posthumanism and
symbiogenetic
tree of life
Exceptionalism
human
western white male
white
Exclusions
Executions
Extinction
Extreme weather
Exxon Valdez oil spill
F
Factories
Family life
See also Domesticity
Fanon, Franz
Fantasy, definition of
Feeling
Feher, Michel
Feminism
evolution and
Fences
Fetishism
Fisher, Allan
Fisher, Mark
Foot-and-mouth disease
Fortun, Kim
Fossil fuels
Foucault, Michel
on biopolitics
The Birth of Biopolitics
on capitalism and biopolitics
on discipline
on environmental technology
on repressive hypothesis
on sexuality
Society Must be Defended
Fourth wall
Fracking
Franklin, Sarah
Freaks
Freedom
Free trade agreements
Freud, Sigmund
Friedman, Milton
Fuel
Fukushima radiation leak
Fukuyama, Francis
Our Posthuman Future
Fuller, Buckminster
Futurity, genres of
G
Gates, Bill
GE (corporation)
Genes
See also Postgenomic research
Genetic engineering
Genital warts
Genocides
Genome Wide Association Study (GWS)
Genres
bewilderment and
of futurity
Geoengineering
Germ warfare
Ghost forests
Gingrich, Newt
Globalization
Global warming
See also Climate change
Gobineau, Count, Essay on the Inequality of the Races
Gould, Stephen Jay
Grant, Hugh
Great recession
Green Revolution
Grosz, Elizabeth
“Prosthetic Objects,”
Time Travels
Guattari, Felix
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
H
Haeckel, Ernst
The Happening (2008)
Haraway, Donna
Hardt, Michael
Hayek, Friedrich
Heritage Foundation
Heteronormativity
Heterosexuality
Higher education
Hill Holiday
History
historical continuity
historical struggle
Homosexuality
Hoover Institution
HPV virus
Human belonging
clones and
disciplinary soul and
economic competition and
exclusion from
sex-gender system and
universal
Human capital
becoming human and
environmental risk and
inequality and
marginalization and
origin of term
Human capital theory
biomedicine and
biotechnology and
family life and
human belonging and
humanitarianism and
neoliberal subjects and
psychic income and
rise of
Human cloning
See also Clones
“Human Element” (Dow Chemical)
Human-enough
Human exceptionalism
Human Genome Project (HGP)
Human/humanity
becoming more human
“be more human,”
colonialist definitions of
epistemological meaning of
as geological force
godlike powers of
human capital theory and
normative
normative culture and
progress
purification
responsibility and
success
unlimited finitude and
Humanism, neoliberalism and
Humanism, western
cultural authority of
decline of
economic competition and
postcolonial critique of
See also Liberal humanism; Neoliberal humanism; Posthumanism
Humanitarianism
Humanities
Humanization
Human rights
Human superiority
The Hunger Games (2017)
Hunger strikes
Hunt, Kathy
Hunt, Terry, The Statues that Walked (with Lipo)
Hunter-gatherer model
Hybridization
Hybrid species
copyrighted
I
Identities
clones and
DNA-based
partial
Immobility
Imperialism, European/western
civilizing mission
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