A
Adorno, Theodor, 34, 69, 80–81, 129, 187n6
Affect, 39–45, 104–114, 122–124, 135, 184n18
Agamben, Giorgio, 51, 140, 146
American Apparel, 178
Arrighi, Giovanni, 93
B
Barthes, Roland, 14–15, 46, 132
Bauman, Zygmunt, 124
Beller, Jonathan, 29
Bergson, Henri, 75, 102, 103, 105, 114–116
Berardi, Franco “Bifo,” 29, 144
Berman, Marshall, 21
Breitbart, Andrew, 98
Brown, Wendy, 97
Burroughs, William S., 125–128, 131–132, 136–140, 142
Butler, Judith, 48, 83, 157, 186n9
C
capacitation, 184n9; defined, 22
Connolly, Michael E., 178
Cornford, F. M., 71
Crosby, Alfred W., 72–73, 76, 184n2
cybernetics, 4-12, 14, 17, 61, 62, 66, 67, 71, 72, 81, 88, 100–105, 109, 115, 124–126, 142, 170–171
D
Deleuze, Gilles, 10, 111, 125–128, 131–137, 138, 140, 142, 170, 184n4
Derrida, Jacques, 8, 46, 68, 83, 146, 156, 158–160
Donald, Merlin, 113
E
ethics, 2, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16–18, 22, 39, 45, 46, 48, 50–53, 59, 64, 96, 111, 143–144, 146–182,
F
Foucault, Michel, 13, 22, 26, 41, 46, 54–57, 68–69, 71, 76, 83, 98, 99, 121–122, 125–126, 128–129, 130–133, 139, 169–170
Frank, Thomas, 137
Fukuyama, Francis, 12, 47–49, 167
G
Gilroy, Paul, 21
Gorgias, 155
Guattari, Félix, 13, 111, 133–136, 140
H
Habermas, Jürgen, 26, 48, 49, 91
Halloran, Michael, 17
Haraway, Donna, 12
Hardt, Michael, 16, 29, 30, 38, 97, 126, 140, 146, 157–160
Hayles, N. Katherine, 43, 47, 49, 50, 82–83, 167–169
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 40, 65, 71
Heidegger, Martin, 8, 51, 60–71, 75, 80, 81, 95–96, 99, 171–175
Holland, Eugene W., 134
Honig, Bonnie, 48, 49, 50, 123, 164
Horkheimer, Max, 26, 34, 80–81, 129
humanism, 3, 10, 11, 22–23, 46–58, 63, 123, 164, 168; “humanist paradox,” 52–53
hypomodernity, 22
I
immortality, 147, 152–154, 162–170, 181
J
Jameson, Fredric, 59, 122, 144–145, 171–175, 177
Jay, Martin, 87
Johnston, Adrian, 161
K
Kant, Immanuel, 22, 55, 56, 80
Kass, Leon, 167
Keller, Evelyn Fox, 25
Kelley, David R., 130
Kurzweil, Ray, 166
kybernetes, 4
L
Lazzarato, Maurizio, 29
logos, 2, 3, 9, 10, 71–72, 88, 96, 147
Lynn, Greg, 90
Lyotard, Jean-Francois, 59
M
Mailloux, Stephen, 14
Manovich, Lev, 85
Marrazi, Christian, 29
Marx, Karl, 29–33, 36, 40, 63, 87, 145–146, 185n13
Massumi, Brian, 41–42, 45, 108, 123
Moulier-Boutang, Yann, 29
Muckelbauer, John, 17
N
Naas, Michael, 17
Nealon, Jeffrey T., 69, 139, 188nn14–15
Negri, Antonio, 16, 29–30, 38, 43, 97, 140, 146, 157–160
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 63, 66, 68, 83, 95, 97, 103, 106, 114, 116–117, 153, 187n4
P
pantometrics, 72, 73–76, 77, 78, 79, 175
parametrics, 9, 81, 88–96, 120–121, 135, 180; defined, 88–89
Plato, 4, 9, 15, 18, 62, 64, 73–74, 142, 147–165, 168, 169; Apology, 153–155; Gorgias, 4, 142, 152–154; Meno, 151, 153; Philebus, 74; Protagoras, 152; Republic, 149, 154; Sophist, 151, 154; Statesman, 154
posthumanism, 46–47, 48, 49, 50, 51–52, 167–168
prognometrics, 76–80; defined, 76
Protagoras, 57
psyche, 3, 149, 151, 161. See also soul
R
rhetoric 3, 4, 9–10, 11, 14–18, 28, 54–59, 64, 71, 74, 75, 82, 84, 96, 102, 103, 104–119, 128, 132, 136, 138–142, 147–148, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 162, 165, 170, 177, 180–182, 182n6; “Big Rhetoric” 15–16; definitions of, 14–18; managerial rhetoric, 15
Rohde, Erwin, 149
S
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 41, 42, 102–103, 104
Simmel, Georg, 148
Simon, Herbert, 43
Smith, Adam, 40
sophists, Greek, 4, 18, 57, 75, 147, 151–157, 162, 170, 177, 181–182
soul, 3, 134, 147–156, 161–165, 169–170, 181. See also psyche
Strathausen, Carsten, 164, 187n9
T
techne, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 17, 57, 74, 88, 96, 143, 147, 174–175, 180–182. See also technics; techiques
technics, 31, 37, 38, 58, 59, 60–99, 141, 143, 162, 165, 170, 174, 175, 177, 180, 182. See also techne; techiques
technique, 2, 9, 11, 14, 15–17, 20, 25, 30, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 56–59, 71–72, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 84, 87–90, 96–99, 123, 125, 127, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 181–182; defined, 16. See also techne; technics
Thomson, Iain, 62
transhumanism, 10–14, 22, 46, 49, 57–59, 162, 167–168, 170; defined, 10–13
transversal, 179; defined, 13–14
V
Van Gogh, Vincent: Shoes, 171–175
Virno, Paulo, 29, 32–33, 36, 38
Von Foerster, Heinz, 8
W
Warhol, Andy: “Diamond Dust Shoes,” 172–175
Watanabe, Satosi, 9
Wiener, Norbert, 4–9, 109, 124, 142
Wilson, Elizabeth A., 83
Wolfe, Carey, 47–49, 50–52, 167–168
Wright, Erik Olin, 37
Z