See also Colonization
India
US corporations and
See also Bhopal disaster
Indigenous peoples
Individuality
discipline and
heroism and
responsibility and
Industrialization
Inequality
climate change and
evolutionary theory and
family life and
Ingersoll, Earl
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Internet
Interspecies sex
In Time (2011)
Irigaray, Luce
Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never Let Me Go
Itskov, Dmitry
J
Jameson, Fredric
Justice
K
Kass, Leon
Katrina (hurricane)
Keller, Evelyn Fox, “The Postgenomic Genome,”
Kinship
biotechnology and
Knight, Frank
Knox, Robert, Races of Men
Kolbert, Elizabeth, The Sixth Extinction
Kranzberg, Melvin
Kurzweil, Ray
L
Labour
life building and
See also Factories; Production
Lapierre, Dominique
Law, rule of
LeGuin, Ursula
Leisure
Levine, Caroline, Forms
Liberal humanism
belonging and
exclusion and
See also Humanism, western; Neoliberal humanism
Libertarian paternalism
Liebniz, Gottfried
Lipo, Carl, The Statues that Walked (with Hunt)
Lippincott
Litter
Living dead
Lowe, Lisa, The Intimacy of Four Continents
Lury, Celia
Lynas, Mark
M
Mantegazza, Paolo, Physiognomy and Expression
Marginalized people
subjectivity of
Margulis, Lynn
Acquiring Genomes
Marketing, see Advertising campaigns
Martin, Theodore
Marx, Karl
Materiality
The Matrix (film)
McClanahan, Annie
Dead Pledges
McClintock, Anne
McDonald, Keith
Me
Medovoi, Leerom
Melville, Herman
Men
animality and
consumption and
sexual competition
western white exceptionalism
See also Sex-gender system
Messianic narratives
Methyl isocyanate (MIC)
Microbes
Microbiology
Microsoft
Mincer, Jacob
Minority Report (2002)
Mirowski, Philip
Mishra, Srijit
Misogyny
Mobile technologies
hybrid subjectivity and
Mobility
Modernity
Monsanto
Moro, Javier
Motherhood
corporate domesticity and
See also Reproduction
Moylan, Tom
Mukherjee, Upamanyu
Multinational corporations, environmental disasters and
See also Bhopal disaster
Musk, Elon
Mutation
N
Nagle, Angela
NASA
Nationalism
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Necropolitics
Negri, Antonio
Neoconservativism
biotechnology and
family life and
family values and
Neohumanism
human capital theory and
subjectivity and
Neoliberal humanism
critiques of
environmental technologies and
Neoliberalism
corporate biotechnology and
corporate media campaigns and
disciplinary power and
Easter Island and
as end of history
environmental technologies and
family life and
family values and
human capital and
human capital theory and
human exclusions and
humanism and
human will and
marginalized people and
social welfare and
think tanks
Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro)
Nike (corporation)
Nixon, Rob
Slow violence and Environmentalism of the Poor
Non-human relations
NSA
O
Obama, Barack
Occupy Wall Street protests
Organic repression
Organ transplants
human capital theory and
hybridization and
Orphans
Oryx and Crake (Atwood)
Osnos, Evan
Overconsumption
Overpopulation
P
Panoptic view
Paratextual devices
Pasquale, Frank, Black Box Society
Patent and Trademark Amendments (1980)
Patented life
Patriarchy
capitalist
family and
Pedophilia
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Pesticides
Phallus
Physics, twentieth-century
Plewis, Ian
Political struggle
See also Activism; Resistance
Poor people
biotechnology and
Pornography
Post-apocalyptic narratives
capitalism and
dystopia and
Postcolonialism
Postgenomic research
Posthuman belonging
Posthuman bodies
See also Clones; Cyborgs; Hybrid species; Toxic chemicals
Posthuman ethics
Posthumanism
clones and
overview of
Posture
Power
distribution of
See also Disciplinary power; Prosthetic power
Precariousness
Preciado, Paul
Prescription medications
Prison-industrial complex
Production
capitalist modes of
human capital theory and
relations of
Progress
Prosthesis
chemical
definitions of
fetishism and
Freud on
Prosthetic attachments
Prosthetic connections
Prosthetic control, networks of
Prosthetic logic
Prosthetic narratives
Prosthetic objects, women’s bodies as
Prosthetic power
Prosthetic technologies
Prosthetic touch
Psychic income
Puar, Jasbir
Punishment
Q
Queer love
Quintiles
R
Rabinow, Paul
Racism
Rapa Nui, see Easter Island
Reagan, Ronald
Reebok, “Be More Human” campaign
Regenerative body
Religion
Reproduction
asexual
biopolitics of
control over
corporate domesticity and
sexual
sexuality and
Repugnance
Resistance
cyborgs and
See also Activism; Political struggl
e
Responsibility
Rhizome
Rhodes, Cecil
Richardson, Sarah
Postgenomics
Rickel, Jennifer, “The Poor Remain,”
Rifkin, Jeremy
Rights
See also Animal rights movement; Human rights
The Road (2009)
Robbins, Bruce, “Cruelty is Bad,”
Robo Sapiens
Robots
See also Cyborgs
S
Said, Edward
Sainath, Palagummi
Samsung
Sandy (hurricane)
Schools
Schultz, Theodore
Science fiction, definition of
Scientific racism
See also Racism
Sea levels, rising
Service jobs
Sex-gender system
human belonging and
Sexuality
heteronormative
reproduction and
See also Heterosexuality; Homosexuality
Sexual repression
Sexual reproduction
See also Reproduction
Sex-work
Shame
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Sheldon, Rebekah
Silverblatt, Michael
Sinha, Indra, Animal’s People
Slavery
Slow violence
Smith, Adam
Snell, Heather
Snuff
Snyder, Katherine
Social Darwinism
Sociality
Social position
Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)
South Coast Clinical Trials
Speciation
arboreal model of
Speculation
Speculative fiction, definition of
Spinoza, Baruch
Stacy, Jackie
Stem cell research
Stoermer, Eugene
The Stone Gods (Winterson)
Students
See also Schools
Subjectivity
human
hybrid
of marginalized people
neohumanist
social
Subjects, objects and
Subversives
Suffering
Suicide
Sunstein, Cass
Nudge (with Thaler)
Superhuman subject
Surveillance
See also Data surveillance
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels
Symbiogenetic evolution
T
Taylor, Jesse Oak, “Powers of Zero,”
Technology
bodies and
See also Biotechnology; Corporate biotechnology; Environmental technologies; Prosthetic technologies
Techno-science, civilization and
Techno-scientific economies, colonizing influence of
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
TEPCO
Thaler, Richard, Nudge (with Sunstein)
Thatcher, Margaret
Theil, Peter
Think tanks
Time magazine, “The Future of Medicine,”
Touch
Toxic chemicals
bodies and
mutation and
posthuman communities and
See also Bhopal disaster
Trade agreements
Tragic-heroism
Trans-corporeality
Transhumanism
artificial intelligence and
biotechnological mastery and
biotechnology and
neoliberal humanism and
28 Days Later (2002)
U
Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)
Unions
United States
Universality
Unlimited finitude
Utopia
Utopian dystopia
V
Venter, Craig
Video games
Violence
necropolitical
snuff
See also Slow violence
Vitality
W
Waldby, Catherine
Wall-E (2008)
Warts
Watson, Jim
Welcome to the Human Era (2013)
Welfare programmes
“White Bear” (2013)
White exceptionalism
White supremacy
Whole Earth Catalog
Will
Williams, Evan Calder, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse
Williams, Raymond
Wilmut, Ian
Wilson, E. O.
Winterson, Jeanette, The Stone Gods
Wolfe, Cary
What is Posthumanism?
Women
animality and
maternalistic activities
reproduction and
See also Motherhood; Reproduction; Sex-gender system
World Trade Organization
Agreement on Agriculture (1995)
Uruguay Agreement (1994)
Y
Young, Robert
Z
Zimbabwe
Zizek, Slavoj
Zombies
Zone One (Whitehead)
Zuboff, Shoshanna
Footnotes
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