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c o n t e n t s Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Moral Machines and Political Animals 1 part one: sex machines 1. Genetic Engineering: Deconstructing Grown versus Made 21 2. Artificial Insemination: Deconstructing Choice versus Chance 51 part two: medusa machines 3. Girl Powered: Poetic Majesty against Sovereign Majesty 85 4. Rearview Mirror: Art, Violence, and Sublimation 115 part three: death machines 5. Elephant Autopsy: Optic Machinery and the Scale of Sovereignty 137 6. Deadly Devices: Animals, Capital Punishment, and the Scope of Sovereignty 166 vii viii Contents 7. Death Penalties: Ethics, Politics, and the Unconscious of Sovereignty 188 Notes 219 Bibliography 235 Index 255 ...

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