Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World

Index

263 Abensour, Miguel, 164, 186–88 absolutism, 7, 48, 55, 87–89 Acéphale, 84–86 actants, 132–34, 144, 149, 151 Agamben, Giorgio, xiii; animals and nonhuman nature, 106–7, 110, 112–16, 119, 125; anthropological machine, xii, 4, 6, 9, 51, 115–18, 122, 130, 149; bare life, xv, 84, 96, 114, 127, 138, 171; biopolitics, xv, 91, 106, 124, 198; The Coming Community, 131; community, 85, 118, 122, 213; ethics, 51–52, 89, 119–20, 127, 190; freedom, 85, 118; innocence, 86; negativity with no use, 83–84, 95; The Open: Man and Animal, xiii, 114, 116–17; politics, 25, 64, 80, 84, 110, 116, 123, 162–63; posthistory, 82–84; posthumanism, 117–19, 132–33; sovereignty, xiv, 85, 120, 122–27, 201–6, 214; state of emergency , xiv, 126; state of exception, 91, 106–7, 123, 125, 128–29; zone of indeterminacy, xiii, xv, 6 Alaska, 223 alienation, 45, 71, 73, 92, 112–15, 138–39, 152. See also natural alien amorality, 67, 80–92. See also innocence anarchy, xviii, 28, 65–76, 91–93, 98, 164, 175, 177; anarchism, xviii, 58, 61–79, 94, 98, 130, 181, 184; anarcho-primitivism, 70–77, 91 animality, 4–8, 46, 83–85, 91, 116–20 Antarctica, 221–23, 245 Antarctic Treaty, 222–23 anthropocentrism, 11–16, 40–49, 61–62, 78, 95–97, 110–19, 144, 176, 211, 215–16 anthropological machine, xiv–xix, 11, 38, 54, 66–67, 84–133, 162, 173, 185–216; ethics, 17, 44–52, 108–9, 212; and forms of anarchism , 65–67, 77, 92; Lascaux, 5–10; metaphysics of, 59–60, 64, 152, 175, 181; myth, 54, 66; religion, 12–16, 40; sovereignty, 116, 122, 128, 189, 214. See also Agamben, Giorgio Aral Sea, 126 archē, 28, 51, 58, 60, 66–67, 71, 78, 160–61, 164–88, 205–14 Arctic, xi, 221, 223 Arendt, Hannah: Eichmann in Jerusalem, 52, 137; ethics, 52–56, 63, 106, 115; The Human INDEX 264 index Condition (book and concept), 132–62; myth, 56; politics, xv, 25, 51–64, 80–89, 95, 110, 123, 133–34, 162, 164, 135–90, 203–17; sovereignty, 56, 121 Aristotle, xix, 110, 123, 162–64 art, 1–8, 19–22, 39, 49, 56, 83–134 Athabasca oil-tar sands, 126, 221 Athens, 55–56 auroch, 1, 12, 212 axiology, 44, 45, 49 Bacon, Francis, 11 bare life, xv–xvii, 84–87, 91, 96–138, 151, 163–79, 201–20. See also Agamben, Giorgio Barth, Karl, 60 Bataille, Georges, 1–35, 60, 82–95, 120, 178, 181, 211 Beck, Ulrich, 134, 140–57, 195 Being, 60–62, 83, 86, 157, 165 Benjamin, Walter, xiii–xv, 1, 6, 10, 109, 119–26, 198, 204, 220 Berlin Wall, 148, 181 biology, xv, xvii, 4, 9, 52, 91–92, 107–72 biopolitics, xv–xviii, 14, 22, 27, 38, 51, 91, 106–34, 151–52, 161, 169–222. See also Agamben, Giorgio bios politikos, xiv, 110, 116, 123–25, 136, 162–64 Black, John, 16 Bloch, Ernst, 30 Bookchin, Murray, 74–75, 79, 97–98 Bradford, George. See Watson, David British Antarctic Survey, 221–22 Brundtland Report, 38 Butler, Judith, 52, 122 Camus, Albert, 79, 90 capitalism, xvii, 14, 38, 42, 76, 103, 182, 193, 200–221 Carson, Rachel, 74 Castells, Manuel, 193, 197 Chauvet, 2 Chernobyl, 71, 140, 205 citizen, 25, 29, 55–58, 70, 124, 129–35, 146, 178, 194. See also denizen civilization, 8, 67–99, 139, 153; civilizing process, 94–96, 234. See also primitivism Clinton, Bill, 194 closure, 32, 34, 36, 41, 43, 46 community, xv, 20–25, 63; challenges of, 111; “coming community ,” 118–22, 131; ecological, 111, 208–20; ethics, 46, 108, 118, 136; imagined, 121; “inoperative community ,” 191; moral, 20; political, 84–85, 122–29, 163, 173–87, 204, 209–14; scientific, 196. See also Agamben, Giorgio compulsion in argumentation, 35–36, 56–66, 83, 122–23, 154, 168, 181, 184 consciousness, 5–7, 29, 39, 44, 148, 152, 166–68 constitution (political), xiv, xviii, 24, 79, 107, 123–31, 133, 149, 163–208; modern, xii, xvi, 10, 192; U.S. Constitution, 180; Weimar, xiv contamination, 72, 81, 88–89 crisis: ecological, xvi, 10–11, 17, 27, 29, 85, 90, 102, 114, 126–32, 203–4, 209; ethical, 114, 130; modernization, 203; of objectivity , 132; political, 90, 123–26, 192 Cronus, 23–24 culture, 1–5, 15–18, 30, 38–40, 46, 67–99, 111–13, 137, 163, 180, 191–93, 206, 212 cybernetics, 92, 134...