Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment

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255 i n d e x accident, 22, 27, 33, 37, 40–49, 59–65, 71–74, 76–79, 107. See also chance; tyche Agamben, Giorgio, 87, 220n5 agency, 3–4, 14, 31, 34, 37–39, 43, 45, 47–48, 58–59, 90–91, 98, 103, 109, 125, 128, 158, 192, 200, 216 animals, 6–11, 13, 17, 35–36, 40–41, 56, 67–69, 76, 85–122, 132, 137–41, 144, 146–59, 183, 185–87, 201, 203, 207, 212, 215–17; and the law, 166–80 Arendt, Hannah, 31 Aristotle, 75–76, 87, 106 art, 4, 16, 45, 86, 90–94, 102, 105–9, 115–34, 144, 161–62, 211, 226n6 artificial insemination, 5, 15, 28–29, 51–81, 150 assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), 1–5, 23–26, 52–59, 63–64, 69, 72–80, 105. See also designer babies Athena, 86, 95, 115, 130–33 autopsy. See elephants: elephant autopsy Beauvoir, Simone de, 35, 205 bêtise, 6, 87–89, 100, 122, 227n10 binary logic, 3–8, 11, 22, 26, 40–41, 45–46, 203–5, 215; chance and choice, 3–4, 13–15, 22, 29–30, 34–35, 51–81; determination and freedom, 3, 8, 22, 41–43, 45, 91; grown and made, 3–4, 14–15, 21–50, 53; life and death, 6, 57, 91–92, 112, 158–59, 178–80; man and animal, 6–7, 9, 11, 40–41, 86, 110, 148, 167, 187, 225n5, 231n5; nature and culture, 3–4, 6–9, 11, 13–14, 22–26, 32, 40–41, 45, 47, 54–55, 57, 74, 86, 91–92, 96–97, 99, 102, 105, 110, 114, 134, 187, 203, 220n7; original and copy, 3–4, 53, 56–57, 65, 90–93, 102, 111, 145. See also undecidability bioethics, 2, 14–15, 22–23, 39, 54–56, 58, 60, 74, 78, 221–22n5. See also Habermas, Jürgen; Harris, John biological determinism, 75–76 birth, 1–5, 25, 30, 35–37, 52–53, 56–74, 78, 81, 112–14, 123, 146, 160. See also rebirth Brewer, Lawrence, 177, 199, 205, 212–15 Butler, Judith, 23, 221n2 256 Index Camus, Albert, 209 capital punishment. See death penalty castration, 67, 92–95, 104–6, 109, 115–16, 123–24, 132–34 Celan, Paul, 86–89, 92–96, 105–7, 110 chance, 10–11, 13, 15, 26–27, 42, 107. See also binary logic: chance and choice; tyche cheating (in sports), 24–25 citizenship, 5, 201 cloning, 1–5, 9, 14–15, 22, 26, 34–59, 69, 72–74, 78–79, 93, 105, 221n1, 222n6, 222n7, 223n13 codification, 17, 168–70 counterfactual consent, 36 crime, 120, 183, 187–88, 193–94, 197–98, 200, 203, 213–14. See also animals: and the law culture as machine, 7, 10, 15, 30–31, 41, 45, 86, 97, 111, 114, 134, 163, 220n5. See also binary logic: nature and culture Davis, Troy, 17, 177, 189, 199, 205, 211–17 de Man, Paul, 7 death, 1–5, 8–10, 14, 16–18, 39, 42, 46, 57, 61, 73, 91–92, 106, 112–17, 120–34, 137–65; instant, 168, 174–79, 183–86, 209, 212–13 death penalty, 2–4, 9–10, 14, 17–18, 122, 150, 160, 166–217 decapitation, 95–96, 116, 122–24, 132–34, 208–11. See also guillotine deconstruction: deconstructive ethics, 5–14, 17–18, 31, 41, 45, 47–49, 161, 163–64, 187, 189–92, 201–7, 215–16, 220n6; deconstructive genealogy, 15, 55–56, 59, 62, 70, 72, 74–75, 78–79; deconstructive machine, 4, 6, 12–13, 202, 206, 220n5 Deleuze, Gilles, 10–11, 87–88, 190 democracy, 12–13, 143–44, 201–4 Derrida, Jacques: The Animal That Therefore I Am, 6–7, 89–90, 93, 107, 149, 155–56, 159, 167, 227n1, 233n1, 233n2; The Beast and the Sovereign, 4–5, 9–11, 13, 15–16, 39, 45, 86–114, 122–23, 137–65, 169, 287, 208, 225n11, 226n6, 231n5, 233n2; différance, 6–7, 46, 67, 74, 96, 203, 223n14; nicknames, 6, 96, 209–10; Of Grammatology, 6, 10, 46, 48, 56–57, 77, 92–93, 96, 202–3 Descartes, René, 88, 97, 151, 159, 167, 233n21 designer babies, 15, 51–54, 58, 79 dissemination, 6, 16, 59–60, 74, 76–81, 109–10 DNA, 1, 7, 40, 51, 58, 76, 90 double bind, 12, 109, 163, 189, 191, 207, 214–15 Dreger, Alice, 23 Dworkin, Ronald, 29, 34–35, 37, 47–49 Edison, Thomas, 17, 168–69...