Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language

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221 ABC of Atoms (Russell), 10 abduction, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41, 61, 121, 122, 179n25, 180n29, 180n30, 181n30. See also hypothesis (abduction) A beta fibers, 131, 156 actants (Greimas), 203n22. See also helper (Greimas); hero (Greimas ); receiver (Greimas); sender (Greimas) adaptation, 2, 25, 52, 56, 58; adaptive science, 58; evolutionary adaptiveness, 38. See also biological adaptation A delta fibers, 131, 156 agency, detection mechanism, 141; detection system, 142; god-agency, 204n22; metarepresentational , 148; sacred, 162; supernatural, 141, 148, 163 A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning (Schleifer), 5, 186n23 Aldridge, David, 92 amygdala, 72, 73, 89, 99, 140, 189n9 anagogic, 205n31 anagrams, 180n26 analogical thinking, 176n12 Analogical Thinking (Schleifer), xiv, 14, 171n2, 174n4, 175n11, 175n12, 176n14, 181n1, 184n15, 197n18 analogy, xxii, xxiii, xxv, 19, 24, 121, 163, 172n4, 189n7 Analysis of Matter (Russell), 11 analytic knowledge, 159 Andersen, Barker, and Chen, 171n3 Anselm, Saint, 17 ant colony, 42, 50, 51, 52, 55 Anthropologist on Mars (Sacks), 80, 98 anthropology, 1 aplysia, 200n5 Apostle Paul, 151 arbitrary nature of the sign, 97, 192n20 Aristotle, xv, xvi, xix, 4, 83, 168, 201n12, 206n35 Arnold, Matthew, xvi, xix Arrighi, Giovanni, 175n9 artificial intelligence, 47, 52 “Artificial Nigger” (O’Connor), 206n34 “Ash Wednesday” (Eliot), 94, 96, 168 Aspect, Alain, 178n20 Index 222 Index astronomy, 3 atoic bombs, 48 atomic number, 10, 49 atomic theory, 16, 18. See also theory atomic weight, 10, 11, 49 Atran, Scot, 140, 142, 148, 150, 151, 201n14, 202n15, 205n24 attention, xiv, xvii, xix, 24, 73, 99, 100–2, 105–7, 109, 113, 114, 118, 123, 126, 171n3, 195n9, 203n19; attention, index, 27. See also awareness; binding; notice attention deficit disorder, 75 Attridge, Derek, 73 Auden, G. A., 187n4 Austin, J. L., 39 Auden, W. H., xvi, 187n4 autism, 195n8 Awakenings (Sacks), 74, 79, 83, 187n21, 192n20, 192n21 awareness, level-1, 114 Ayurveda, xvi Bahktin, M. M., 30 Barreca, Regina, 126 Barthes, Roland, 23 basal ganglia, 72, 81, 89, 90, 91, 187n1, 191n16 Baskin, Wade, 197n16 bassoons, 198n21 Bataille, Georges, 185n16 becoming one with objects, 194n6 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 12 behaviorism, mechanistic, 136; behavioristic pain 167; behaviorists 196n14 Bell, John, 178n20 Bell’s theorem, 178n20 Beloved (Morrison), 195n9 Benjamin, Walter, xvii, xix, 180n28; “conceptual constellations ,” 184n13 Bennett, Carl, 82, 92, 96 Berlin, Brent, 28 Bernini, Giovanni: Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 151 binding, 114; selective, 196n14 biological adaptation, xv, 98, 106, 148 biological determinist, 172n1 biological interactions with the environment , 69 biological systems, xxiv; formations , 80; organization, 43; phenomena, 2 biology, xxi, 15, 23, 45, 47, 48, 50, 58, 62, 90, 102, 118, 171n3, 172n1, 177n16, 182n6, 183n10, 184n12; and evolutionary science , 1, 101; and environmental sciences, 50, 55, 63, 162; biological explanation, 60; biological–evolutionary explanation , xx biomechanical perspective, 102 Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche), 71, 82, 188n6 Blitz, David, 183n10 body-image, 163, 205n26 Body in Pain (Scarry), 130, 146 body-self, 163 “body self” (Melzack), 147 “body-self template” (Melzack), 153, 154, 157, 158 Bogan and Woodword, 179n25, 181n30 Bohm, David, 18, 177n16; “enfolded order,” 19 Bohr, Niels, 18, 45, 177n18 Boltzmann, Ludwig, 49 Born, Max, 18 Bowen, Elizabeth, 22, 23, 25; Heat of the Day, 63, 67, 168 Index 223 Bowker, John, 141, 165 Boyd, Tom, 204n23 Boyer, Pascal, xvi, 140, 142–44, 148, 204n23 brain, 3–4, 37, 45, 50, 51, 60, 64, 70, 83, 91, 92, 95, 94, 98, 99, 109–15, 129, 131, 132, 136, 140, 143, 144, 154, 156, 159, 162, 164, 172n4, 173n3, 181n3, 182n3, 187n2, 188n5, 189n7, 190n14, 191n18, 193n2, 193n5, 194n5, 195n8, 195n10, 196n11, 196n12, 200n4, 201n10, 202n17, 203n20; chemistry, 79, 93, 95; and hand, 103; lateralization , 111, 112, 144–45; molecular biology 66; organization, 95, 142; primate, 74; reptilian, 72, 84, 89; “sacred” (Stafford), 160; size, 103; Stafford on, 159 brain stem, 136 brain theory, 120 Brewster, David, 200n8 bricolage, 98 Bridgman, Percy, 16, 182n4 Broca’s aphasia, 187n5 Broca’s area, 72, 116, 188n5 Buddhism, 202n15 Burgess Shale, 122 Burke, Kenneth, xv, 125 Burrell, David, xxi–xxii, xxiv Cage, Nicholas, 78 Cameron, Sharon, 88 Campbell, Jeremy, 20 cannabis, 179n24 capitalism: finance, 9, 175n9; industrial , 9, 175n9 Capra, Fritjof, 41, 47, 101, 106, 181n2 Carnap, Rudoph, 195n7 Cartesian mechanics, 1 Cassell, Eric, 145, 146, 148, 150, 153, 157, 158, 162, 203n20, 206n34; Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, 145 Cassirer, Ernst, 18 Casti, John, xx, 6, 13, 22, 29, 62, 64, 122, 174n4, 175n11, 186n22; Complexification, 123, 175n6 catastrophe theory, 59, 62...