Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels

by Justin Omar Johnston

  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