about, etymology of, 151–52
absolutism, Hobbesian, 209, 211, 214
actor-network theory, 227
Adorno, Theodor, 384
aesthetics, 190, 338, 404; blue-collar victim, 395; Devo, 398; disability, 23, 190; formalist, 370
affect, 21, 43n37, 74, 75, 76, 84, 87, 127, 183, 211, 227, 244, 246, 309; agency and, 47; disfiguration and, 66; emotion and, 431; identity and, 85; intermingling of, 110; negative, 184; political, 414; rage and, 280
Agamben, Giorgio, 215, 226n36, 270, 414
Agassiz, Louis, 325
agency, 3, 12–17, 22, 52, 98, 105, 107, 167, 209, 228, 266, 311, 325, 333, 334, 401, 415, 426; accursed, 258; Ahabian, 7, 15, 17, 28, 95, 96, 97, 99, 103, 245, 418–19; claims of, 15, 93–94; commodified, 95; concentrated, 102; cosmic, 346; democratic, 25; determinism and, 163–64; dispersal of, 229; distribution of, 230; external, 7; geological, 323; human, 93, 95, 103, 106, 161, 425; intentional, 17, 25; political, 13, 23; salvific, 337; subtle, 7, 8
Ahab: agenda of, 93; blasphemy of, 264–65; Cartesian tale of, 66, 74; character of, 51, 98, 128; death of, 141, 323; discovering, 1–2; distress of, 145–46; ego of, 1, 174; exclusiveness of, 162; humanness of, 155; image of, 76; leadership of, 219–20; lunacy of, 96, 151, 265, 315; mission of, 241, 259, 260, 263, 279; as neurotic personality, 382; overthrowing, 246; performance of, 149, 264; portrayal of, 417; power of, 2, 15; pure form of, 74–76; questions by, 243–44, 269; scheming by, 96, 388–89; seeing, 71–73; soul of, 286, 323; speech by, 134–35; spiritual throes of, 166; thinking of, 122, 308; as tragic hero, 382; trial of, 293–95; vision of, 48, 51; will of, 94, 127, 137
Akron, 392, 393, 394, 395, 402, 404, 419
Alaimo, Stacy, 13, 48, 56, 59; Exposed, 54; heroic conflict and, 54; Material Feminisms, 12; posthumanist selves and, 5
allegory: biblical, 188; materiality of, 150–51; political, 37, 107; sexual, 373n10; subordinate, 150
ambient beings, 76–85
American Communist Party, 381
American Storm Controversy, 9–10, 41n20
amputation, 69, 70, 72, 74, 134, 142n9, 142n13, 186
analogies, 59, 96, 105, 114, 129, 135, 138, 307, 368
Ancient Mariner, 315
Anderson, Mark, 111
Anderson, Quentin, 165
Andersonville, 302, 303, 305, 307, 317
animacy, 19, 111, 114, 145, 158n1; free-floating, 116; material, 118
animation, 426; hearty, 234, 244; material, 121
antagonism, 198, 266, 270, 418
Anthropocene, 14, 16, 29, 50; Ahab and, 35, 38
anxiety, 102, 182, 183–84, 287
Arac, Jonathan: on “Chart,” 98
aroma, 199–200, 201, 203, 206, 211, 218, 306; flesh as, 207; uncontaminated, 200; whale, 209
Arsić, Branka, 2, 14, 15, 16, 27, 30, 111, 116, 117, 335, 426; “Desertscapes: Geological Politics in Clarel,” 420; lifeless life and, 337; Melville and, 416; on ontology, 17; Passive Constitutions, 2; self-representation and, 44n61; on thinking/feeling, 114–15
atmosphere, Ahab in, 5–8
Auerbach, Erich, 158n1
“Aye, aye!,” 146, 257, 258, 260, 261, 268
Barad, Karen, 4, 13, 48; agential realism and, 5; critical theory and, 52; quantum mechanical model of, 340n9
Bateman, Patrick, 280
Baudelaire, Charles, 314
Beachy-Quick, Dan, 85
Beale, Thomas, 78, 80, 83, 90n19, 416; diagram by, 77, 77 (fig.)
Beck, T. R., 42n30
becoming-serpent, 209, 211, 220
Benedi, Pilar Martínez, 18, 19, 20, 22, 147, 423
Benedict, Ruth, 382
Benjamin, Walter, 226n37, 345, 375
Bennett, Jane, 20, 24–25, 164, 174, 175, 203, 211, 218, 219, 220, 221n4, 222n12, 224n23, 236, 237–38, 325; agency and, 229; conceptualization and, 233; human norms and, 230; materialism and, 225n31, 228, 229, 232, 237; on monism, 243; new materialism and, 16, 111, 201, 202, 229; nonhuman actants and, 238; Odradek and, 162; ontology and, 161, 415; recognition scene and, 230; self and, 232; thing-power and, 20, 175n2, 161, 228; vital materialism and, 227, 238, 272; Vibrant Matter, 161, 175n2, 197, 228, 230, 233–34, 414–15
Bezanson, Walter E., 421
Bierce, Ambrose, 303
biology, 339n8; metaphysics and, 72, 73
biopolitics, 4, 23, 25, 28, 201, 231, 234, 236, 238, 287, 295, 332, 336; affirmative, 325, 340n9
Blackmur, R. P., 154
Blackstone, William, 294
Blair, Robert James, 141n2
Blake, David Haven, 142n9
Blake, William, 426; Behemoth and Leviathan, 209, 210 (fig.)
Blow, Charles, 37
blue ecohumanities, 55
Blum, Hester, 2
body, 12–17, 70, 97, 145, 256, 311, 416, 418; Ahab and, 77, 286; brain and, 84, 124n25; cetacean, 78, 79, 81, 88; completeness of, 65; continuous, 76–85; disabled, 187, 190; ethical treatment of, 74; identical particle-figures and, 72; libidinal, 243, 244, 245, 247, 254, 261; material, 7–8, 68; mind and, 109; opacity of, 73; pain and, 38; reconceptualization of, 3; self and, 133; sensations and, 68–69; social, 190; untouched, 73–74
body-as-unity, external objects and, 52–53
body-soul, 334–35
Bohr, Niels, 52
bones: cetacean, 79–80; porous, 80; posterior, 83; whale, 80
Boomer, Captain, 21, 185, 186, 187, 190, 193
brain, 84, 111, 117, 309; blossoming, 83; body and, 84, 124n25; composing by, 121; epigenetic, 13; injury, 120; sea and, 123; spinal theory of, 83; as transcendental matter, 118–20; whale, 81–82, 86; brain-spine, 83
Brethren of the Order of Celibacy, 361
British Museum, 361
Brown, Bill, 372n3
Brown, John, 218
Browne, Thomas, 86, 90n19, 281, 425
Bryant, John, 141n6
Bryant, Levi, 152
Buffon, 72, 426; internal mold of, 71, 79; metaphysical biology of, 73; natural history of, 416
Bulkington, 50, 54, 190, 303, 308; at sea, 59–62; ocean and, 418; oceanic radicalism and, 13, 60
Butler, Judith, 197, 202; on body, 145; on death drive, 219; echoic repetitions of, 146; materialism and, 218–19; performativity and, 152–53; queer turn and, 212, 219; “Solidarity/Susceptibility,” 197; susceptibility and, 220; temporality and, 217
Byron, John, 315
Byron, Lord, 425
Calverton, V. F., 44n53, 407n18
Cameron, Sharon, 88n2, 111, 171, 328, 341n29
candles of the Holy Ghost, 40n15
cannibalism, 30, 309, 310, 312, 330, 331
Cape Horn, hurricane and, 10
capitalism, 38, 198, 221n1, 295, 360, 361, 366, 369, 371, 417; iron cage of, 385; late, 370
capitalist society, 44n53, 407n18
Carlyle, Thomas, 381
Casale, Jerry, 402; Devo and, 395, 400; “Polymer Love,” 398–99; on Kent State shootings, 396
Casarino, Cesare, 111, 222n13; on Ahab’s mutilation, 106; labor/capitalism and, 275n28
Castiglia, Christopher, 11, 18, 23, 35, 418; on disability, 21; The Practices of Hope, 193
castration, 171, 172, 173, 174, 417
Cato, 180
cetaceans, anatomy of, 78–79
Chambers, Robert, 325
Chaplin, Charlie: Modern Times, 366
Chase, Owen, 310
chemistry, 2
civilization, 292, 312, 374n18; industrial, 390, 391, 392
Coffin, Peter, 189
cogito, 66, 164, 168; ambiental, 14, 84, 85–88
cognition, 3, 12–17, 22, 23, 43n37, 124n14, 127, 128, 136, 139, 417, 419
Cold War, 4, 32, 34, 108n2; Ahab and, 2, 35–39; reading, 36, 38; security directives of, 386
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 88n4, 89n5, 315, 381; Biographia Literaria, 68; Descartes and, 69, 89n7; Melville and, 89n7
commercial venture, 203, 211, 262
commodification, 28, 206, 211, 363
Commonwealth v. Rogers, 277, 279, 296n8
communication, 238, 257, 352, 380, 381; modern, 386; social, 383
compassion, 18, 21, 188, 193; defined, 192; denying, 190; parable of, 179; receiving, 190, 191; as socially transformative, 190
Complete Constitution, 237, 238, 239
“Computers and the Humanities” (conference), program for, 387 (fig.)
Comstock, William, 381
connections: interpersonal, 18, 133; neuronal, 120
Connolly, William, 226n44
consciousness, 130, 167; in-forms, 175; techno-sexual, 399
Constantine, 206
Consumer Reports, 393–94
contractual agreements, 233, 235, 237, 240, 250, 254, 255, 263, 269, 271
Cook, Robert Francis (R.F.C.), 361
Coole, Diana, 162, 174; new materialism and, 175, 413, 414; New Materialisms, 12, 163, 425–26; ontological dualism and, 164
Cooper, James Fenimore, 60, 346; The Pioneers, 142n9
Corpus Electromagneticum, 253–62
Coughlin, Charles E., 381, 383
Crabtree, Sarah, 289
Craig, Leon Harold, 226n35
Cuddy-Keane, Melba, 130
culture, 3, 238, 295, 336, 357n15; high, 361; mass, 383; national, 374n21; nature and, 265; popular, 384
Cuvier, Frederick, 78
Cuvier, Georges, 327
cyborg assemblages, 13, 48, 51, 53, 56
cyborgism, 49, 50–53, 54, 57; Ahab and, 13, 48, 56
Dante, 64n17
Darwin, Erasmus, 426
Davis, Harry P., 383
Dayan, Colin, 418, 426; The Law Is a White Dog, 349; Melville and, 29, 30–31, 33–34; on thinking mind, 74
de Man, Paul, 426
death, 38, 201, 263, 329, 331; anonymity of, 352; emblems of, 348; violent, 218
Deleuze, Gilles, 4, 5, 20, 115, 174, 257, 315, 423; Ahab “becoming-whale” and, 178n37; Foucault and, 117; on thinking, 117; vitalism of, 414
dematerialization, 187, 189, 190
Derrida, Jacques, 340n14
Descartes, René, 65, 70, 113, 174, 175, 308, 316, 317; Ahab and, 74, 75–76, 87, 88; cogito and, 164; Coleridge and, 69, 89n7; corpuscles of, 413; De Methodo, 89; Dissertatio de Methodo, 68, 69; Hobbes and, 89n5; idealism of, 68; Meditations on First Philosophy, 113, 302, 308; on memory, 75; on subjectivity, 75; supersensibility and, 302; on whole mind/whole body, 69–70
desire: collective, 262; expression of, 250; monomaniacal, 283; object cause of, 170, 171; subject’s, 171
determinism, 419; human agency and, 163–64
Devo, 3, 32–33, 398, 400, 401, 419; “Fraulein,” 402, 403, 404; flyer for, 403 (fig.); impetus for, 395–96; “Jocko Homo,” 403; “Mechanical Man,” 384; “Recombo DNA,” 395; “Smart Patrol,” 403
devolution, theory of, 32–33
Dickinson, Emily: “Certain Slant of Light,” 150; “Soundless as Dots/On a Disc of Snow,” 150
diet, 2, 26–27, 306, 310, 314–15; maritime, 416
Dimock, Wai Chee, 359; on mimetic repetition, 106; resonance and, 32, 419; “A Theory of Resonance,” 375
disability, 21, 23, 156, 180, 181, 186, 418; aesthetics of, 179; Ahab and, 185, 189, 194n1; avoidance and, 190; materiality of, 189; physical, 187–88; relationships with, 419; studies, 2, 3, 145, 154; style and, 179
diseases, 38, 288, 290, 293, 305, 306, 331; physiological/etiological accounts of, 27
disembowelments, 331
Dismal Swamp, 350
dismemberment, 149, 174, 179, 183, 185, 259; Ahab and, 188, 190
dissolution, 13, 15, 16, 17, 26, 58, 61, 94, 111, 116, 211, 246, 366–70, 401
distinctions, 136; in-group/out-group, 137–41; self/other, 139
Dolar, Mladen, 168
Don Quixote, 116
doubloon, 53, 217, 236, 247–51, 252–53, 259, 389; impact of, 256; pledge of, 261
Dreyfus, Hubert, 203
dualism, 16, 17, 422, 423; monism and, 175; ontological, 164, 175
Duckert, Lowell, 13, 48, 54, 56, 59
Duyckinck, Edward, 89n8
ecofeminism, 54
ecological matters, 18, 59, 229, 326
ecomaterialism, 13, 16, 48, 49, 62
economics, 295, 375, 418; politics and, 205
electromagnetic constitution, 261, 271, 272
electromagnetic currents, 6, 235, 266–67, 271, 272
electromagnetic storms, 246, 260, 269
electromagnetism, 2, 6, 23, 25, 28, 235, 236, 237, 239, 254, 240, 261, 267, 272; metaphor of, 238; nature of, 274n15
Elijah, smallpox and, 188
Ellul, Jacques, 400, 402, 411n81; on Moby-Dick, 386–87; on technique, 398, 399; The Technological Society, 375, 398
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 148, 165
emotions, 51, 128, 136, 138, 183; depiction of, 182; excessive, 288; turbulent, 186
empathy, 38, 67, 155, 417; cognitive, 18, 128, 129, 131, 133; emotional, 18, 127, 128, 129, 131, 134, 135, 139; lack of, 18, 127; object of, 131
encounter, touch-based, 131, 140
environment, 5–6, 58, 295; cetacean, 86
environmental humanities, 2, 12, 43n37
epistemology, 38, 81, 111, 118, 231, 238, 278, 422
Erasmus, martyrdom of, 101
Eros, 165
Esposito, Roberto, 325
Esquirol, Jean-Étienne-Dominique, 97–98, 281, 282, 283
Euripides, 222n12
Evans, K. L., 111, 423; One Foot in the Finite, 174, 422
Ewbank, Thomas, 388
existentialism, 382
external objects, body-as-unity and, 52–53
eye, supremacy of, 131
Faerie Queene, 327
fantasy, 161, 301, 416; Ahab and, 164; materialist, 116; scorbutic, 313
Faraday, Michael, 100
Farmer, Meredith, 221n4, 222n15, 225n28, 235–36, 299n36, 413, 415, 421, 422; “Melville’s Ontology,” 234
Faulkner, William: on Ahab, 36
feedback loops, 133, 235, 269, 385, 386, 398, 401
feeling, 2, 21, 26, 28, 31, 43n37, 66, 67, 70, 74, 86, 107, 127, 128, 130, 131, 147, 148, 158, 185, 206, 207, 218, 220, 231, 277, 283, 288, 295, 315, 354, 364, 425; body and, 69, 84, 87, 113; brain and, 84; brooding over, 287; deluge of, 133–37; intense, 353; loving, 209, 405; mockery of, 316; pain and, 69, 156; prereflective communion of, 133; of severed limb, 89, 132; thinking and, 83, 110, 112, 114–15, 136, 376; touch and, 19, 133; uncontrolled, 141
Felski, Rita, 414
fetishism, 201, 360, 369, 374n22
Fielding, Henry, 310
figuration, 72, 85, 154, 157, 213; alchemy of, 150; metabolism of, 156; writing and, 155
Fitzhugh, George, 367
fixations, 25, 278, 282, 283, 293
Flathman, Richard, 225n30
Fleissner, Jennifer, 43n48
flesh, 27, 200, 205, 206; anterior, 83; aromatic, 207, 211; phantasm and, 352; spirit and, 110; whale, 207, 214, 223n19, 223n20, 224n27, 225n28
fleshpots, 199, 200, 206, 209, 220
Fletcher, John Gould, 407n23
Ford, tires and, 394
Foster, Elizabeth, 37; “Another Note on Melville and Geology,” 35; “Melville and Geology,” 35; “Melville, Thoreau, and ‘The Apple-Tree Table,’” 35
Foucault, Michel, 325; biopolitics and, 332; biopower and, 236; corporeal genealogy of, 414; Deleuze and, 117; on water/madness, 217–18
Frank, Jason, 200, 223n22, 224n22
Frankfurt School, 384
Freeburg, Christopher, 143n20
Freeman, William, 280
Freud, Sigmund, 167, 168, 174, 218–19, 364
Frost, Samantha, 162, 174, 221n4, 225n30, 413; Biocultural Creatures, 197; new materialism and, 175, 202, 209, 414; New Materialisms, 12, 163, 425–26; ontological dualism and, 164; traffic/body and, 209
Fugitive Slave Act, 240
Galápagos Islands, 323, 324, 327, 328, 330, 332, 350
Gardiner, Augustus Kinsley, 296n4
Gardiner, Captain, 127, 136–37, 128, 284
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, 154–55
gaze, 137, 157, 158, 172, 207, 280, 295, 348, 353, 389
geography, medical, 26, 287, 299n34
geopolitics, 383
givel, term, 145–46
God, Ahab as, 76
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 325, 426
Golden Rule, 127
Goldstein, Amanda Jo, 414, 426
Goldstein, Jan, 297n15
Goodrich, 392
Gray, Stephen, 41n16
Grayson, William, 367
Greene, Nathaniel, 289
grief, 100, 309, 339n4; ancestry/posterity of, 189; insularity of, 187
Grosz, Elizabeth, 325
Guattari, Félix, 20, 174, 178n37
Haines, Christian P., 3, 20, 422, 425; materialism and, 15, 16, 17
Haines, Christopher P., 417
Hall, Stuart, 274n20
Hall, Thomas Steele, 72
hallucinations, 301, 314, 350, 351
Halyard, Harry, 381
Hamlet, Prince, 175
Hardack, Richard, 331
Hare, Robert, 10
Harman, Graham, 153
Harpoon Hall, 376–78, 380; photo of, 379; revisiting, 400–402, 404–5
harpooners, 7, 53, 130, 180, 252, 253, 260, 270, 271
Harrison, John, 307
Hart, Joseph C., 291; Miriam Coffin, 290, 381
Hawkins, Richard, 305
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 142n9, 178n40, 381
Hawthorne, Sophia, 150
Hearst, William Randolph, 383
hermeneutics, 94, 359, 361, 365
heroism, 30, 49, 175, 178n40, 347
hieroglyphics, 31, 203, 361, 364, 372n6
Hillway, Tyrus, 37; Captain Ahab, 36; “Melville as a Critic of Science,” 35; “Melville’s Geological Knowledge,” 35; “Melville’s Use of the Pseudo-Sciences,” 35
Hinton, Peta, 342n40
Hitler, Adolf: Ahab and, 32, 36, 37, 383, 391
Hoadley, John C., 90n16
Hobbes, Thomas, 198, 200, 202, 206, 208, 209, 221, 221n4, 222n18, 224n23, 225n30, 225n33, 226n39, 304, 313; Complete Constitution and, 237; De Natura Humana, 89n5; on death, 218; Descartes and, 89n5; illustration from, 208 (fig.); Leviathan and, 203, 204, 213, 310; Leviathan, 206, 208 (fig.), 212, 214, 216, 217, 225n34, 226n35, 226n38, 270, 416; materialism of, 24, 68; sovereignty and, 213; on swearing of oaths, 270
Homer, 64n17
homosocial interactions, 24, 135, 181, 206, 229, 363, 365
Honig, Bonnie, 27, 28, 107, 416, 422, 423, 424; agency and, 25; materialism and, 24; psychoanalytic reading by, 23
Horkheimer, Max, 384
Howard, Leon, 406n13
human, 227, 356; nonhuman and, 229; space beyond, 384
Human Issue, 380, 396; image from, 397 (fig.)
human/nature binary, 227
human spirit, purity of, 377
humans, 4; empowering, 23; human use of, 386, 388–89; nonhumans and, 230–31, 349
Hume, David, 156–57
Hunter, John, 78, 90n13, 90n14, 90n15; cetology of, 79–80, 416; whale oil and, 311; whale skin and, 312
hunting, 98, 202, 271, 281, 291, 388; whale, 33, 200, 205, 247, 401
Hurh, Paul, 339n4
hurricanes, 1, 9, 10, 204, 242, 268, 269
Hussein, Saddam, 37
hypos, Ishmael and, 179–80, 188
idealism, 13, 72, 73, 76, 85, 112, 416; Ahab and, 16, 74; Cartesian, 68, 71, 74; radical, 14; rejecting, 17
identity, 115, 119, 122, 132, 331–32, 355; collective, 56, 389; corporate, 50; cyborg, 48, 51–52; difference and, 130; materiality, 110; personal, 67, 88n2, 117
illness, 1, 2, 27, 42n30, 154, 156
imagination, 75, 278, 304, 315; monomania and, 283
Immigration and Nationality Act (1952), 390
Immigration and Naturalization Service, 390
individualism, 62, 331, 382, 384, 391; self-enclosed, 8, 37
instinct, 70, 84, 113, 184, 204, 265, 268
inter-indebtedness, 164
interior, 79; exterior and, 80–81
Interpersonal Multisensory Stimulation, 140
Iron Crown of Lombardy, 156–58, 165, 293
Iroquois, 312
Ishmael, 7, 8, 9, 10, 19, 32, 35, 54, 61, 62, 80, 83, 102, 107, 136, 151, 164, 172, 175, 188, 193, 199, 205, 207, 209, 213, 214, 236, 264, 291, 306; adventures of, 95, 212; affective isolation and, 21; Ahab and, 2, 13–14, 21, 47, 48, 49, 50, 54, 56, 58, 59, 73, 93, 120, 163, 167, 183, 184, 189, 315, 389, 416, 418; amnesia for, 215; aroma and, 211; articulation/disarticulation and, 79; avatar of, 189; brain and, 82, 86; cannibalism and, 309, 310; cetology of, 77, 78–79, 81; cultural roots of, 59; depression of, 114, 180, 418; disability and, 21, 180, 188; dismemberment of, 190; ecomaterialism of, 48; on fasting, 305; homoeroticism of, 86; insights of, 181; interpenetration and, 315; lamentation by, 334; on Leviathan, 202; living principle/supreme purpose and, 97; metaphors of, 105; metaphysics/biology and, 72; on Moby Dick, 189; mutiny and, 103, 254, 392; narration by, 147; nature of, 55; nostalgia and, 314, 315; open fingers of, 87; openness/curiosity of, 421; pain and, 147; philosophy of, 22; plurality and, 48; presence of, 55; quarterdeck scene and, 240–41; Queequeg and, 57, 58, 130, 132, 134, 138, 143n21, 155, 305; reverie of, 62, 332; self-sufficiency and, 304; Stubb and, 184, 185; trances of torments and, 165; version of, 418; water and, 55, 216–17; whales and, 66, 85, 224n24, 310, 312
ivory leg, 19, 20, 67, 70, 146, 162–63, 189, 329, 420
James, C. L. R., 32, 200, 389–90; Ahab/Hitler and, 36, 391; American Civilization, 390; The Black Jacobins, 390; Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways, 390, 391; on Melville, 198, 384, 385, 391, 392; political vision of, 384–85; spermaceti and, 404
James, Henry, 165
Jeszeck, Charles, 393
Jones, John Paul, 30, 346, 347, 351
Jonik, Michael, 116, 136, 143n20, 422; Melville and, 427n4; Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman, 420; on thought, 115
Joseph, Henry, 280
Kafka, Franz, 415; “The Cares of a Family Man,” 161–62
Kelly, John D., 291
Kelly, Sean Dorrance, 203
Kent State University, 398, 400; Melville celebration at, 376; shootings at, 32, 380, 395–96
Kilgour, Maggie, 371, 374n22, 374n23
King, Richard, 3
King, Stephen, 176n8
Kluckhohn, Clyde, 382
kneading, 85–88
Kohn, Eduardo, 357n14, 357n15; “How Hogs Dream,” 351; “Runa Realism,” 349
Kristiansson, Magnus, 217, 224n23, 226n39
labor, 29, 38, 58, 95, 279, 363; division of, 199; geography of, 371; surplus value and, 104; transnational, 2; wage, 367
Lacan, Jacques, 20, 165, 169; Ahab and, 168; castration and, 173; cogito and, 168; eccentricity and, 177n25; ego and, 168; extimacy and, 176n15; hystericism and, 170; “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious,” 167–68; Master Signifier of, 417; materialism and, 171; objet petit a and, 177n28; psychoanalysis and, 167; sublimation and, 177n22; unconscious and, 167–68
Lamb, Jonathan, 26–27, 28, 416, 420
Lancaster, James, 305
language, 118, 415, 418; limits to, 119; materiality of, 3; ontology of, 222n12; power of, 22
Latour, Bruno, 4, 5, 13, 44n60, 48, 236, 273n5, 360, 363, 374n17, 419; agency and, 414; Complete Constitution and, 237; humanities/sciences and, 36; Modern Constitution and, 265; nonhuman actors and, 52; trial of force and, 239; We Have Never Been Modern, 237
Lawrence, D. H., 101
le Gros, Louis, 424
Leviathan, 202, 203, 204, 209, 212, 213, 214, 235, 247, 257, 261, 310, 333, 384, 392, 399; bad subjects of, 207; power of, 220
Lewis, Bob, 395, 398, 399, 400
Leyden jar, 6, 95, 96, 99, 234–35, 236, 269, 294, 333; Ahab as, 8, 10
libidinality, 234, 244, 245, 247, 251, 252, 257, 259
life: cetacean, 83; complex, 72; continuity of, 65; as continuum of sensuous matter, 66; heteroaffective, 84; interconnectedness of, 326; normativity of, 326; phantom of, 329; racial/natural hierarchies of, 278; spectral, 337; supreme value of, 326; wife and, 341n22
life-death dialectic, 324, 326, 327, 329, 330, 333, 337, 338, 340n14
life drive, 165
lightning, 6, 7, 8, 99, 100, 166, 236, 241, 271
Lincoln, Charles, 277
Lind, James, 313
Linnaeus, Carl, 213
literary criticism, 12, 19, 37, 61, 179, 193, 426
literature: as democratic institution, 375; understanding of, 19
living act, described, 267
Livingston, Alexander, 218, 220
Locke, John, 175, 315–16, 369; Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 200
logos, 152; phenomena and, 155
Long, Huey, 383
Looby, Christopher, 130, 141n6
Los Angeles Staff, 398
lost leg, 18, 21, 156, 167, 183, 188, 257, 329, 417, 418; difficulties with, 184; monomania and, 179. See also phantom limbs
Luce, Henry, 383
Lupton, Julia, 221n8
Lyotard, Jean-François, 245
machines, 366–67, 388, 396, 398, 400, 401, 402
madness, 205; water and, 217–18
magnetism, 6–7, 8, 94, 99, 102, 333
Malabou, Catherine, 15, 112, 118–19, 422; correlationalism and, 124n17; materialism and, 122–23; Melville and, 16, 417; on neurobiology, 112; new materialism and, 118, 119–20, 121; plasticity of, 17, 120
Malm, Andreas, 122
Mapple, Father, 49, 54, 93, 101, 103; sermon of, 187–88, 378
Marcuse, Herbert, 373n15
Margoth, old materialism and, 421
maritime laws, 242, 255, 256, 262
Martin, Jonathan, 299n38
Marx, Karl, 201, 225n31, 361, 363, 368, 373n16, 373n17; alienation and, 369; Capital, 360, 367, 369; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, 367; social hieroglyphic and, 31, 365, 369
Massachusetts State Prison, 26, 277
Massachusetts Supreme Court, 277
Master Signifier, 417
materialism, 4, 38, 52, 119, 121, 122–23, 162, 163, 171, 216, 278, 295, 360, 417, 419, 420, 422–23, 424, 425, 426; Ahab and, 17; critical theory and, 413–14; democratic, 24; dialectical, 177n24, 415; division of labor and, 199; historical, 229, 238, 240, 272, 273n6, 370; immanent, 111; interdisciplinary approaches to, 427; Lacanian, 169, 170, 174–75; literary criticism and, 12; metabolism of, 156; old, 23, 197, 199, 421, 427; political allegory and, 37; political alternatives and, 28; posthumanist, 202; science and, 36; talking about, 11–35; vibrant, 218–19; vital, 161, 229, 230, 238, 240, 272; vulgarity of, 68. See also new materialism
materiality, 20, 97, 150, 156, 157, 164, 167, 362, 363, 427; disability, 190; figurative, 418; formless, 71; relationships with, 419; spectral, 231, 232, 233, 235, 237, 238, 246; transformative tendency of, 119; vibrant, 228, 234; virtual, 252; vital, 201, 231, 232, 414
materialization, 107, 129, 171, 173, 360
matter, 164, 426; humans/nonhumans, 12; immaterial living force and, 71; self-organizing, 238; sensation and, 67; thought and, 123n7
Matthiessen, F. O., 35, 382, 384; on Ahab, 37, 164, 165
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 10
Mbembe, Achille, 340n10
melancholy, 281–82, 283, 287–88
Melville, Herman, 7, 9, 10, 15, 17, 18, 19, 52, 54, 55, 60, 62, 78, 86, 98, 100, 111, 113, 118, 131, 133, 137, 148, 149, 153, 157, 198–99, 201, 202, 213, 215, 216, 217, 220, 221, 235, 241; afterlife and, 324, 336; agential powers and, 93–94, 95, 214; Ahab and, 1, 151, 171; authority and, 377, 382; characterology and, 155; corporeal obsessions of, 2; creativity of, 377–78; Descartes and, 68, 69, 70; diptych of, 32, 34, 363, 365; doubled narratives of, 48; drama and, 204–5, 347; flesh/phantasm and, 352; Hawthorne and, 150, 381; heroism and, 347; inverted similitude and, 364, 365; Israel and, 349, 352; James and, 198, 391, 392; knights/squires and, 212, 222n16; language of, 3, 10, 22–23, 29, 31, 34, 428n14; life-death dialectic and, 66, 324, 325, 326, 327, 329, 337, 342n41; material relationality/self-environment and, 377; materialism and, 2, 12, 94, 111, 122–23, 420, 422–23; medical geography and, 26, 299n34; metaphysics and, 353; meteorology and, 10, 11; monism and, 175; monomania and, 26, 296n4; new materialism and, 121, 174, 175, 198, 337; obfuscation/mystification and, 369; ontology and, 94, 115; phantoms and, 128, 132; philosophical realism of, 111, 422; poetry of, 303, 327, 332–33, 420, 421; politics and, 23, 107, 202, 385, 392; prophetic character and, 376; queerness/domesticity and, 155; revival of, 48, 382, 407n27; on savagery, 292; science and, 235; scurvy and, 27; Shakespeare and, 381; Shaw and, 26; spelling of, 100; subjectivity and, 20–21; surface and, 153, 154; technological surround and, 376; thinking of, 30, 43n38, 44n60, 111; understanding of, 37–38; whaling industry and, 303, 419
Melville, Herman, writing: The Ambiguities, 109, 362; “Art,” 421; “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 109, 152, 207, 374n19; Battle-Pieces, 302, 420, 421; “The Bell-Tower,” 35, 367; “Benito Cereno,” 367, 370; Billy Budd, 296n4; Clarel, 158, 296n4, 339n4, 421; “Conflict of Convictions,” 421; “The Encantadas,” 323, 324, 327, 328, 330, 332, 337, 419, 420; “Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century,” 421; “The Great Pyramid,” 421; “The Haglets,” 421; “The Hireling and the Slave,” 367; Israel Potter, 30–31, 345, 346, 348, 349, 354, 418, 420, 426; “The Lightning-Rod Man,” 327; Mardi, 10, 68, 296n4, 420, 422; Omoo, 27, 57, 305, 306, 416, 420; “On a Natural Monument in a Field of Georgia,” 27, 302; “The Paradise of Bachelors,” 361; “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” 31, 359, 360, 365, 366, 368, 369, 371, 374n19, 417, 420; “Pebbles,” 421; The Piazza Tales, 367, 370; Pierre, 109, 129, 150, 152, 345, 346, 362, 420; “Pontoosuc,” 327, 332; “Rammon,” 333; Redburn, 10, 276n4; “Shiloh,” 421; “The Tartarus of Maids,” 31, 360–61, 367, 370; Timoleon, 421; Typee, 27, 57, 305, 416, 420; White-Jacket, 5, 8, 10
Melville, Thomas, 305
Melville and the Creative Whale (exhibition), 376, 378
Mentz, Steve, 15, 16, 35, 418; philosophical positions and, 13–14; “Sailing without Ahab,” 13–14; voice and, 29
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 156
metamorphosis, 120, 269, 353, 416, 418
metaphor, 24, 30, 33, 105, 135, 153, 187, 190, 193, 216, 222n12, 352, 385, 386, 398; concept, 229, 238; of depression, 186; of incorporation, 56; of loss of self, 132; machines and, 404; meteorological, 269
metaphysics, 66, 71, 110, 189, 353, 377; biology and, 72, 73; military, 386; public, 107; subjectivity and, 373n15
Meteorological Association (Williams College), 41n25
Michelin, 393
Mills, C. Wright, 385
Milton, John, 425
Misrach, Richard, 149
Mitchell, David T., 155, 194n1
Mitchell, Silas Weir, 131, 132
MLA. See Modern Language Association
M’Naghten, Daniel, 278, 280, 281, 296n3
Moby Dick: antagonism for, 266; apparition of, 253; encounter with, 250, 264, 286; as predilection, 254; pursuit of, 105, 260, 265, 271, 272; relation to, 267
Moby Dick (Melville) chapters: “Ahab’s Leg” (ch. 106), 189; “A Bower in the Arsacides” (ch. 102), 329; “The Cabin” (ch. 129), 138; “The Candles” (ch. 119), 7, 94, 102, 106; “The Cassock” (ch. 95), 20, 172; “The Castaway” (ch. 93), 139; “The Chart” (ch. 44), 94, 95, 98, 102, 105, 117, 121, 165, 171, 174, 285, 420, 424–25; “The Chase—Second Day” (ch. 134), 47; “The Chase—Third Day” (ch. 135), 7, 417; “Cistern and Buckets” (ch. 78), 213; “The Counterpane” (ch. 4), 129, 131; “Dusk” (ch. 38), 95; “The Fountain” (ch. 85), 421; “The Grand Armada” (ch. 87), 338n1; “Knights and Squires” (ch. 26), 249; “Loomings” (ch. 1), 55, 212, 215, 380; “The Mast-Head” (ch. 35), 47, 178n39; “Moby Dick,” (ch. 41), 279, 281, 292; “Nantucket” (ch. 14), 280, 289, 293–94; “The Needle” (ch. 129), 67; “The Nut” (ch. 80), 117; “The Quarter-Deck” (ch. 36), 2, 7, 6, 95, 104, 105, 121, 137, 233, 234, 235–36, 238, 239–40, 240–41, 247, 268, 269, 284, 415, 419; “The Sphynx” (ch. 70), 135, 225n32; “Spouter-Inn” (ch.3), 57, 61, 129, 312; “A Squeeze of the Hand” (ch. 94), 107, 198–99, 404, 416, 420, 423, 424; “Sunset” (ch. 37), 95, 157, 173–74; “Surmises” (ch. 46), 102, 254; “The Symphony” (ch. 132), 104, 137, 169, 292; “The Try-Works” (ch. 96), 209, 423; “The Whiteness of the Whale” (ch. 42), 95, 121, 188
Modern Constitution, 237–38, 239, 265, 272
Modern, John, 32, 33, 34, 44n53, 422; on Ahab, 36; Melville and, 29; theory of resonance and, 419
Modern Language Association (MLA), 183, 184, 190
modernity, 237, 388; Ahab and, 269–72
monomania, 1, 23, 97–98, 122, 135, 136, 146, 151, 154, 287, 294; Ahab and, 26, 28, 47, 48, 96, 106, 117, 127, 162, 184, 205, 235, 278, 279, 281–86, 334; conceptualization of, 296n4; homicidal, 278, 280, 285; imagination and, 283; lost leg and, 162, 179; medical concept of, 281–86, 293, 416; narrow-flowing, 281; ruling passion and, 282; symptoms of, 166
Morgan, J. P., 383
Morton, Timothy, 337
Mote, Carl H., 406n14
Moten, Fred, 197
Mothersbaugh, Mark, 395, 396, 402
Murison, Justine, 132
mutiny, 102, 103, 260, 263, 392; Ahab and, 389; threat of, 254, 255
Nantucket, 27, 61, 103, 105, 137, 204, 263, 264, 284, 288, 289–90, 290–91, 292, 304, 312, 314, 316, 317, 378, 388; whaling industry and, 256, 261, 292, 293
Nantucket shipowners, contractual agreement with, 233, 235, 240, 249, 250, 254, 255, 260, 262, 269
narcissism, 42n31, 129, 131, 140, 331
narrative, 16, 189; coming-out, 181; counter, 197–98; disease, 293; medical, 285; rhythms, 179; styles, 22, 180
National Gallery, 192
Nature, 335, 348, 392; culture and, 265; deified, 331
neovitalism, 325, 336, 337, 340n9
neural networks, 121, 134, 386
neuroscience, 2, 19, 112, 133, 134, 139
New Bedford, 61, 85, 90n12, 308, 378, 388
New Bedford Whaleman’s Chapel, 187
New Bedford Whaling Museum, 380
new materialism, 15, 16, 112, 114, 118–23, 164, 170, 174, 175, 200, 209, 214, 227, 233, 325, 336, 337, 413, 415, 426; emergence of, 229; fleshpots and, 199; methodological principles of, 111; old materialism and, 427; separations and, 198; theopolitical economy and, 201; virtue of, 202
Ngai, Sianne, 2
Nielsen, Laura Beth, 221n4
Nixon, Richard, 396
Noble, Mark D., 16, 27, 425; agency and, 17, 418; dissolutions and, 15; market economy and, 24; ontology and, 21–22; self-representation and, 44n61
nondifference, 137, 140, 143n21; invisible sensations of, 129–33
nonhuman, 18, 23, 114, 162, 227, 228, 232, 128, 336, 356; human and, 229, 349
nonhuman actors, 3, 11, 52, 238
nostalgia, 23, 107, 289, 302, 307, 313, 314; Ahab and, 316; maritime, 301; polarities of, 316; scorbutic, 27, 301, 315; scurvy and, 317; as temporal disorder, 30
notching, 66–76
Nurmi, Tom, 420
Oakeshott, Michael, 225n30
oaths: Ahab and, 271, 272; swearing of, 269–72
objects: raising/elevating, 177n22; subjects and, 147, 170; symbolic, 359
objet petit a, 170, 171, 172, 177n23, 177n28
Office of War Information, 382
Oken, Lorenz, 82, 83, 84, 325; Elements of Physiophilosophy, 82, 90n16; The Whale, 90n16
Olson, Charles, 57, 58–59, 60, 378, 382; Call Me Ishmael, 47, 62; Ishmael and, 53–54, 64n17; Odysseys of, 64n17; Pacific and, 62; reading of, 49; theory of, 48; on Vincent, 377
ontology, 12–17, 21–22, 30, 95, 115, 156, 197, 201, 216, 231, 234, 236; Ahab’s, 65, 77, 79, 84, 85, 88; Anthropocene, 66–76; cetacean, 14, 76–85; essentialist, 38; flat, 13, 17, 20, 33, 161; human/ nonhuman, 239, 266; Ishmael’s, 14, 85; living-dead, 338; materialist, 94, 414; object-oriented, 153, 161, 227
Other, 19, 128, 130, 137, 140, 141, 170; racialized, 139; self and, 131, 134, 139
Otis, Amos, 280
pain, 2, 20, 29, 139, 158, 188; Ahab and, 146, 147; body and, 38; chronic, 18, 19, 145, 146, 148, 151, 152, 153, 154, 156; figurative materiality of, 419; phantom limb, 128; phenomenology of, 153; physical/ metaphysical, 187; vagueness of, 147, 151
pantheism, 54, 59, 106, 178n39, 324, 331, 332
Parsons, Amy, 2
passion, 205; crimes of, 284, 295; delirium of, 282; ruling, 74
Paxson, Chris, 221n4
Pease, Donald E., 27, 35, 336, 415, 419, 421–22, 425; materialism and, 425; Visionary Compacts, 422
Peel, Robert, 296n3
peg leg, 53, 56, 117, 132, 135, 163, 167, 172, 176n8, 183
Peleg, Captain, 164, 291, 292; account of, 146; Ahab and, 147, 188; metaphysics of, 66; pain and, 148
Pequod: Ahab and, 6, 9, 27, 255, 260; authority over, 389; corporate identity and, 50; crew of, 37, 62, 236, 242, 243, 255, 303; diet aboard, 26–27, 310; disaster for, 180, 305; leaks on, 104–5; material order of, 405; mission of, 239, 252, 255; oath and, 272; revised purpose of, 25; Samuel Enderby and, 182; sinking of, 58, 106; voyage of, 47–48, 51, 59, 60, 61, 254, 285, 293. See also ships
perception, 22, 140, 304, 359; lower-level, 136; sensorial, 360
Peretz, Eyal, 274n21
Perkins, Peter, 355
personhood, 2, 66, 70, 75, 96, 102, 348; integrity of, 65; nature of, 349; prosthetic, 3, 17–18
phantom limbs, 19, 131, 132–33; phenomenon of, 142n13; sensation of, 133, 135. See also lost leg
phenomenology, 19, 152, 157, 158
phenomenon, 238, 353; as experimental fact, 239; logos and, 155; phantomlike, 133
Philbrick, Nathaniel, 37
philosophy, 21, 180, 181, 187, 188; affirmative, 29; biocentric, 29; modern, 75, 164; neovitalistic, 29; post-Cartesian, 167
phosphorescence, 99
phrenology, 110
physiognomy, 110
Pip, 57, 128–29, 135, 218; Ahab and, 3, 18–19, 137–41, 143n20, 143n21; attachment to, 137–38; Stubb and, 139, 205
plasticity, 17, 81, 118, 119, 120
Plinlimmon, 362
Poe, Edgar Allan, 297n20
poetics, alternative/antityrannical, 14, 48
polarizing, 266, 269–70, 271–72, 316
political economy, 95, 107, 202, 203, 204, 205, 361, 371
political theology, 24, 107, 202, 237, 239, 416; Ahab and, 204, 205
political theory, 2, 3, 202, 221n5, 229, 427n1
politics, 23–28, 29, 201, 202, 229, 262, 263, 326, 376, 396, 414; Ahab and, 38, 108n2, 407n23; cultural, 54; economics and, 205; register of, 199
Polk, James, 240
Post, Francis, 90n12
posthumanism, 2, 3, 5, 16, 42n35, 56, 414
Potter, Israel, 31, 34, 345, 348, 354–55; disillusionment with, 352; hallucinations for, 351; portrayal of, 349, 356; reprieve for, 350; riotous cattle and, 353
power, 172, 229, 243, 260, 270, 325, 382, 384, 400, 402; agential, 94, 99; cerebral, 84; constituent, 200; cultural, 35; disruptive discharges of, 101; emergency, 246; fleeting concentrations of, 13, 15; homosocial, 200; knowledge, 236; labor, 363; political, 94, 385; sovereign, 255; speechless/placeless, 101; super-egoic, 236; totalitarian, 383; will to, 265
Prescott, Abraham, 280
Prichard, James Cowles, 287
Probyn, Elspeth, 54
production, cycles of, 366–70
Prometheus, 75, 93, 166, 285, 286, 317, 334, 425; Jupiter and, 298n25
prosthesis, 50, 129, 138, 179, 182, 185, 186–87, 189, 193, 417
prosthetic leg, 51, 93, 145, 172, 173, 174, 182, 186, 256, 401
pseudoscience, 236–37
psychoanalysis, 20, 167, 175, 199
Qaddafi, Muammar, 37
Quakers, 202, 293, 294; fighting, 280, 291, 292; Nantucket, 288–89
Queequeg, 50, 54, 58–59, 61, 129, 140, 190, 252, 312; cannibalism and, 310; death of, 58; fishy places and, 289; Ishmael and, 57, 58, 130, 132, 134, 138, 143n21, 155, 305; Moby Dick and, 253; multiracial utopian fantasy and, 13, 60; tattoos of, 49, 99; utopian pluralism of, 418; Yojo and, 312
Quiring, Björn, 270
race, 26, 43n37, 203, 282, 291; contradictions of, 417; disputes over, 240; disregarding, 137, 214; importance of, 38; studying, 288
racism, 2, 3, 110, 252–53, 325, 351
Ramachandran, V. S., 142n13
Ray, Isaac, 278
realism, 19, 153, 227, 422; agential, 5, 17, 52
reason, 68, 317; voluntary acts against, 225n34
recognition, 11, 87, 187, 190, 217, 230, 231, 232, 238, 277, 315, 340, 359, 383
Reinhardt, Mark, 206, 221n4, 224n23
Rekret, Paul, 199, 201, 202; capitalist social relations and, 23–24; counter-narrative and, 197, 198; new materialism and, 197
Renker, Elizabeth, 428n14
R.F.C. See Cook, Robert Francis
Robillard, Douglas, 82
Rogers, Abner, 26, 277, 278, 280, 281, 294, 299n38
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 381
Rosenberg, Jordy, 122
Rothenberg, Molly, 172
Rowland, Beryl, 373n10
Rutter, J. O. N., 41n16
Said, Edward, 373n13
Saint Elmo, 40n15, 107, 108; disembowelment of, 102; patronage of, 101
Saint Elmo’s fire, 6, 15, 40, 99, 100, 164
Sanborn, Geoffrey, 2–3, 11, 427n4
Sand, Robert C., 345–46
Santner, Eric L., 24–25, 107, 199, 200, 215, 237–38, 242, 244, 245, 261, 272, 415; biopolitics and, 238; busybodiedness and, 233, 236, 246; deanimated things and, 233; flesh/body and, 251; metaphors and, 24; new materialism and, 201, 202; nonhuman actants and, 238; psychoanalytic reading by, 23; quarterdeck scene and, 234–36; Second Body and, 247; spectral materiality and, 231, 232, 233, 235, 246; subject-matter and, 232–33; vital materiality and, 231; Weight of All Flesh, 231, 233, 251
Savarese, Ralph James, 18, 19, 20, 22, 417, 423
Sbriglia, Russell, 18, 20, 22, 297n20, 417, 422
Scarry, Elaine, 147
Schmitt, Carl, 225n33
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 341n25
Schroeder, Jonathan D. S., 27, 28, 42n30, 221n4, 303, 415, 416, 421; materialist turn and, 413; monomania and, 25–26
Schulman, George, 221n4
science, 23, 44n62, 52, 79, 235, 237, 239, 273n1; empirical, 311; Enlightenment, 88; humanities and, 39; materialism and, 36; principles of, 388; technology and, 39
Scientific American, 400
Scoresby, William, 297n12
scurvy, 23, 27, 28, 304, 309, 313; fighting, 305, 306; maritime, 301, 317
sea creatures, 209, 212, 217, 218
Sealts, Merton, 178n39
Sears, Roebuck, 393
Second Body, 238, 243, 250, 251, 252, 256; electromagnetic, 266; kingly, 242, 245, 247, 261; libidinal, 261; powers of, 256; white whale and, 248, 249
seeing, fantasy of, 148
self, 54, 94, 145; body and, 133; buffered, 410n73; narcissistic sense of, 131; newish, 232; other and, 131, 134, 139; queenly, 165
self-defense, 214, 289, 299n31
self-determination, 93, 98, 101
self-interest, 201, 211, 218, 230, 291
self-sufficiency, 27, 303, 304, 307, 309
sensation, 419; bodies and, 68–69; matter and, 67; tactile, 130; wash of, 114
sensorimotor system, 132, 133, 134
Shakespeare, William, 49, 117, 381
Shaw, Lemuel, 280, 294, 295; Melville’s rebuttal to, 26, 278; Rogers and, 279, 296n8
Shelley, Mary, 425
Sheridan, Alan, 177n25
ships: Adventure, 310; Bachelor, 286; Bachelor’s Delight, 370; Bon Homme Richard, 347, 355; Britannia, 305; Brookes, 313; Essex, 310; Julia, 306, 314–15; Mary Russell, 297n12; Rachel, 18, 27, 128, 136, 138, 284, 307; Rose-bud, 63n15; Samuel Enderby, 6, 21, 182, 185, 189, 190–91, 192, 284, 286; San Dominick, 374n18; Serapis, 355; The Shuttle, 355; Town-Ho, 63n15, 105. See also Pequod; whaleships
Shulman, George, 225n33
similes, 30, 33, 114, 187, 286, 347, 348, 350, 353, 354, 356, 418, 426
Sixth Meditation, 69
skulls, 76; cracks in, 110, 114, 115, 117; fibrous, 84; undeveloped, 82
slaves, 26, 30; wage laborers and, 367
sleepwalking, Ahab and, 95, 96, 98, 334
Smart, Christopher, 311–12
Snediker, Michael D., 18, 19, 22, 418, 420, 424, 426; pain and, 20, 38
Snow, C. P., 35–36
social contract, 24, 28, 200, 205, 209, 215, 220, 230, 237, 240, 269; Hobbesian, 204, 222n18
social hieroglyphic, 31, 34, 360, 363, 365, 369, 370
social relations, 37, 181, 392, 404; behavior in, 398, 405; capitalist, 23–24; noncognitive, 17
somatosensory system, 133, 134
sovereignty, 23, 24, 38, 94, 214, 216, 401; agential, 105; fiction and, 213; figurations of, 213; meaning-securing, 201; political theology of, 222n10
space, 332; temporality and, 362
Sparks, Jared, 346
sperm oil, 209, 307–8, 311, 380
sperm whales, 86, 206, 209, 211, 248, 278, 284, 311, 329
spermaceti, 74, 85, 87, 206, 213, 309, 311, 314, 404, 423, 424
Spillers, Hortense, 223n19
Starbuck, 5, 10, 25, 94, 102, 239, 241, 242, 248, 271, 292, 303, 307, 308, 314, 315, 316, 416, 423; agency and, 107; Ahab and, 57, 103, 104, 137, 169, 185, 202, 203, 204, 205, 215, 250, 253, 254, 255, 256–57, 260, 263, 264, 265, 267–68, 269, 291, 304; alternative energy field and, 259; anger of, 267–68; body/ will and, 117; capitalist relations and, 418–19; disciplinary order of, 261; discursive norms of, 257; dissent by, 262, 263–64; economic quest of, 106, 205; entreaty of, 137; good will of, 56; human eye and, 135; hunt and, 266; immortal infancy and, 117; labor and, 95; lesson from, 189; lower layer of, 262–64, 264–69; maxim of, 105; mutiny of, 254, 255, 260; political economy of, 107, 203; professionalism of, 106; reasoning and, 265; rebuke of, 134; self-sufficiency of, 304; significance of, 254; skill/stoicism of, 308; Stubb and, 302; on vengeance, 203–4
starvation, 27, 101, 301, 303, 305, 317
Steinberg, Neil, 37
Stengers, Isabelle, 44n60, 239
Stewart, William, 297n12, 299n38
stimulation: actual, 140; interpersonal multisensory, 139; tactile, 140
storms, 8; controversy over, 9–10; rotary, 9
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 182
Stubb, 53, 74, 103, 264, 309, 310, 312; Ahab and, 106, 242; economic quest of, 205; Ishmael and, 184, 185; nostalgia and, 314; Pip and, 139, 205; rationalization of, 329; Starbuck and, 302
subjectivity, 18, 31, 75, 163, 164, 168, 171, 172, 175, 201, 266, 271, 349, 352, 353, 366, 369, 370, 417, 419, 421, 426; Ahab and, 75; Cartesian model of, 169; dynamic view of, 174; formation of, 20–21; human, 161, 414, 425; metaphysics and, 373n15; partitioning of, 361; queer, 220
surface, 153; sophistication of, 154; vagueness of, 149; visible, 149
Swift, Jonathan, 301–2
Sydney Fish Market, 54
symbolism, 25, 31, 111, 119, 233, 243, 391, 415, 426
synesthesia, mirror-touch, 128, 129, 133, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, 417
Taji, on Yillah, 10
Taylor, Matthew A., 34, 419, 422, 425; materialism and, 33; Melville and, 29, 33
technique, 405; advanced formation of, 411n81; autonomy of, 395–96, 398–400
technology, 32, 33, 34, 368, 376, 384, 385, 395, 401, 419; disciplinary, 244; propaganda and, 398; regulatory, 244; science and, 39
Temple Church, 364
temporality, 217, 362, 367; nonlinear, 220; space and, 362
Thacker, Eugene, 337
thanato-politics, 336
thanato-vitalism, 327
Thanatos, 165
theology, 202, 203, 211, 223n20, 400
theopolitical economy, new materialism and, 201
thing-power, 20, 161, 167, 174, 219, 228, 266
thingness, 360
thinking, 73, 117, 120, 123, 168, 316; feeling and, 114–15; material substance and, 122; materiality of, 109; metaphoric, 154; metonymic instances of, 111; specificity of, 116; transindividual, 115
Thompson, E. P., 362
Thompson, W. R., 372n8, 374n18
Thoreau, Henry David, 366, 373n12, 415
Thorp, Willard, 382
thought, 120, 168, 175, 197, 316, 334–35, 421; Cartesian, 73, 163, 303; cetacean, 421; feeling and, 110, 114–15; German Romantic, 90n16; impersonal nature of, 115; interiority of, 122; material origins of, 16, 112; matter and, 123n7; organic vulnerability of, 112; shiver of, 76, 110, 112–18, 123; unconscious, 174
Tompkins, Kyla Wazana, 273n6
tortoises, 323, 324, 328, 337, 338, 340n17
totalitarianism, 32, 381, 383, 384, 385, 391; Ahab and, 236, 392, 404
Tralau, Johan, 217, 224n23, 226n39
transformation, 119, 151, 193; cybernetic, 400; social, 231
transubstantiation, 73, 368, 369
trauma, 2, 96, 120, 149, 186, 190, 394
trial of force, Ahab and, 234–40, 242, 247, 254, 269
Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, 389–90
Trotter, Thomas, 301, 304, 313
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, 346
Trump, Donald: Ahab and, 42n31
unconscious, 20, 168, 170, 174, 175, 417
undead, 167; not dead and, 176n8
U.S. Constitution, 240
vampirism, 327
Vanity Fair, 37
vengeance, 165, 180; capacity for, 278; quest for, 203, 204
Vietnam War, 396
Vincent, Howard P., 32, 33, 37, 400, 401, 402, 419; Human Issue and, 380; Melville scholarship and, 43n40, 376–77, 378, 419; on Moby-Dick, 380–81, 404; photo of, 379; The Trying-Out of “Moby-Dick,” 376, 377, 378, 381
violence, 47, 278; Ahab and, 53, 180; environmental, 2; polarizing, 267; pornography of, 148; reciprocal, 266–67, 269, 272; state, 33, 34, 398
Virgil, Aeneid, 348
vision, 22, 49, 51, 84, 140, 181, 248, 259, 401
vitalism, 2, 12, 18, 219, 226n39, 327, 414
vitality, 333, 341n28; common, 167; reservoir of, 260; vibratory, 174
voice, 29, 172, 389; dissenting, 262; illusion of, 157; power of, 271