The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920

Contents

contents acknowledgments xi introduction 3 I / HARNESSING HEREDITY Middle Class Mores and Information Management in Large-Scale Breeding prelude 29 1 Middle Class Mores: Beaufort’s Bastards 33 2 Breeding True: Processing a New Elite 51 conclusion “A Backward Glance”: Corporate Inheritance as Bastard Birth 67 II / FISH-MARKET PHENOMENOLOGY The Habits of Thought and the Space of Exchange in Late Nineteenth-Century Natural History prelude 73 3 The Political Economy of Natural History 79 4 Homologous Networks of Exchange: The Intersubjective Infrastructure of Scientific Exchange 93 5 Categorizing Experience: Space and Time in Nineteenth-Century Natural History 1 16 6 The Pacific Railway Survey: The Subject in the Panoramic Mode 133 conclusion Fish-Market Phenomenology 145 III / HISTORY WRITING GREAT MEN WRITING HISTORY Recapitulation Narratives and Stories as Scientific Models prelude 149 7 Storied Pasts 153 8 The Plot Thickens: The Political Economic Dimensions of Biological Stories 172 conclusion Osborn and the Horse: The Conservative Literary Inheritance of Evolutionary Stories 203 IV / THE POETICS OF WANDERING Time, Narrative, and the Affective/Phenomenological Body prelude 209 9 Wandering and Narrative 216 10 Wandering and Inheritance in Light of the Sensory-Motor Complex 229 11 Writing, Goods, and Memory 242 conclusion New Folds in Space and Time 266 V / HYBRID SPACE, HYBRID TIME Record Keeping and the Indexing of Genomic Space and Time prelude 271 12 Industrial Perspectives: Luther Burbank 274 13 Record Keeping: A Post-Hermeneutic Means for Charting the Space of Flows 290 conclusion The Different Domains of Life 306 notes 309 bibliography 345 index 367 ...