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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Three Eras of Experimental Vitalism 1 1 Romanticism, Art, and Experiments 14 2 Suspended Animation and the Poetics of Trance 43 3 Life, Orientation, and Abandoned Experiments 74 4 Nausea, Digestion, and the Collapsurgence of System 104 5 The Media of Life 144 6 Cryptogamia 190 Conclusion Biopolitics and Experimental Vitalism 218 Notes 231 Bibliography 271 Index 295 This page intentionally left blank ...

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