Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature

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Index abduction, 217 Abernethy, John, 10, 89–90, 92, 155, 247n27, 247n29 Abrams, M. H., 242n52 Académie Royal des Sciences, 28 actants, 21, 228 activity, 49; experiment as, 32–35, 40, 229; life as, 1, 62; mediation as, 160–63; and passivity, 15–16, 199, 207, 210, 268 Adams, George, 148–49, 184–85 addiction-to-synthesis, 69 Addison, Joseph, 109 Adorno, Theodor, 125, 253n41; on experiments , 12, 14–17, 22–27, 41–42, 235n24 “Advertisement” (Wordsworth and Coleridge). See Lyrical Ballads aesthetics, 40, 56, 73, 141, 143, 233n4, 255n65; and atmospheres, 203, 205–6, 214, 217; experience and, 40, 139–40; judgment and, 192, 217; limits of, 108, 138–40; and science, 143 affect, 70, 72, 105, 178, 255n69; science and, 108, 194, 250n9 Agamben, Giorgio, 12, 219–20, 231n3 Aids to Reflection (Coleridge), 97, 99, 243n65 altered states, 3, 45, 54; and sensation, 54, 56, 62, 65–66 ambience, 204, 267n44. See also atmospheres analogy, 193, 206, 209, 264n7, 268n46 anesthesia, 61, 71 animals, 56–57, 89–91, 149–50, 152–54, 164, 169, 183, 240n23, 247n29, 248n34; and the “abstract animal,” 172–73; and animal heat, 9, 46–48, 50, 64–66, 70, 150, 173, 239n14; and animal rights, 220–21; fables and, 199–201; and plant life, 192–95, 264n7, 265n8, 266n33, 266n35; and territories, 202, 267n39 animism, 231n2 anti-slavery activism, 126–37 apostrophe, 67–69, 236n34 apprenticeship, 199, 207–8, 210, 268n48, 268n49, 268n57 Aristotle, 6, 49, 157, 164, 192–93, 232n9, 260n46. See also neo-Aristotelianism art, 140–41, 233n4; and apprenticeship, 208; as compound, 72; and disgust, 139; “life” of, 2, 41–42; materiality of, 228; and nausea, 105; as network, 17, 39–40; and non-art, 39; as “organ” of philosophy , 169–70; and social conflict, 23–25; and temporality, 12, 38–42; as a unity contrasted with the arts, 12, 17, 24, 35, 38, 237n48 artificial life. See under life artistic experimentation, 2–4, 11–12, 14–17, 22–27, 34–42, 227–29, 233n4, 235n24, 237n44. See also experiments Art-Network, 39–42 assemblages, 18, 21, 183, 223, 235n19 associationism, 126–27 atmospheres, 65, 98–99, 229, 267n38; and beauty, 205, 207; Kant on, 203; local, 202, 267n37; medicated, 211, 267n40; ontology of, 202–4; risk as, 141; selective function of, 202; as territories, 202. See also mood; mutual atmospheres audience, 61, 100, 105, 112–13, 118–19, 125–26, 128–29; and experiments, 15, 23–26, 28, 41 296 index Auerbach, Erich, 262n83 authorship, attribution of, 83–86, 93, 102, 237n41, 246n19 automaticity, 5, 45, 61–63, 69, 72–73, 142, 243n62, 262n73 autonomy: language as, 209; quasi-, 51, 205; of sensation, 59; subjective, 25, 45; and systems, 106; of tissue, 64; of vital powers, 50, 232n9; of will, 63, 78, 246n8 avant-garde, the, 14–16, 27, 41, 140–41, 233n4, 235n24, 238n54 Bachelard, Gaston, 8 Bacon, Francis, 29–32, 34–36, 145, 147, 236n34, 257n4 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 140 ballads, 26–27, 236n34 “bare life.” See under life Bataille, Georges, 104–5 Bate, Jonathan, 212 beautiful, the, 108, 139, 203, 207; and atmospheres, 202–6 Beddoes, Thomas, 111, 257n18 Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray), 159 Benjamin, Walter, 61, 259n37 Benton, E., 6, 232n13 Bergson, Henri, 2, 72, 233n23 Bersani, Leo, 142 Bewell, Alan, 29–30, 264n7, 265n23, 267n37 Biagioli, Mario, 83–84 Bichat, Xavier, 240n26 Bildung, 170–71, 184, 263n88. See also form bioeconomy, 219, 224–25 Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 43, 81–82, 85–86, 97, 137–38, 155, 247n22, 267n40 biography, 76–77, 81–82, 94–96, 102, 176, 237n41. See also life: and texts biology, 145 biomedia, 146 biopolitics, 13, 219–23, 231n3; affirmative, 220–223 Bíos (Esposito), 219–23, 269n3 biotechnology, 223–25 Birth of Tragedy, The (Nietzsche), 100 Blagden, Charles, 47, 64, 239n14 Blake, William, 190, 198 blood, as medium, 150 Bloom, Harold, 40 Bloor, David, 20, 235n15 Blut and Boden, 215 bodies, 59, 78, 252n22, 254n60; and biopolitics, 221; and corporeal memory, 117–18; and digestion, 111; and environment , 51, 57, 66, 69, 117–19, 253n31; grotesque, 140; historicized, 116–17; and language, 137; material causality of, 126–27, 129–33, 136–38, 142–43; and media, 47–49, 119, 122, 143, 148–51, 159–60, 175, 177, 257n18; national, 106, 113, 115–18; without organs, 72; and sensation , 61–66; and suspended animation , 46–50, 71; and systems, 105–7, 140; and texts, 118; and trade, 109–10, 116–18; “typical,” 111–12; and urbanization, 114, 116–17. See...