Index

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

afterlife, 29, 34, 324, 336

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

Ahab, King, 175, 251

Ahabism, 49, 50

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

Albany Academy, 41n25, 42n30

allegory: biblical, 188; materiality of, 150–51; political, 37, 107; sexual, 373n10; subordinate, 150

Althusser, Louis, 219, 414

ambient beings, 76–85

American Communist Party, 381

American Revolution, 30, 346

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

animal studies, 2, 16

animation, 426; hearty, 234, 244; material, 121

animism, 336, 415

antagonism, 198, 266, 270, 418

Anthropocene, 14, 16, 29, 50; Ahab and, 35, 38

anthropocentrism, 11, 39, 425

anxiety, 102, 182, 183–84, 287

Arac, Jonathan: on “Chart,” 98

Arendt, Hannah, 211, 224n26

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

Arvin, Newton, 35, 348

atmosphere, Ahab in, 5–8

atomism, 2, 12, 18, 71, 413

Auerbach, Erich, 158n1

authoritarianism, 37, 390

authority, 209, 382

automation, 33, 398

automatism, 324, 390

“Aye, aye!,” 146, 257, 258, 260, 261, 268

Bachelard, Gaston, 87, 88

bachelors, 362, 364, 365, 366

Barad, Karen, 4, 13, 48; agential realism and, 5; critical theory and, 52; quantum mechanical model of, 340n9

Barnum, Jill, 82, 90n16

Bartleby, 215, 370, 374n19

Bateman, Patrick, 280

Baudelaire, Charles, 314

Bayle, Pierre, 70, 89n8

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

becoming-whale, 174, 178n37

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

Bildad, 146, 291, 292, 316–17

bioculture, 24, 209

biologism, 119, 336

biology, 339n8; metaphysics and, 72, 73

biopolitics, 4, 23, 25, 28, 201, 231, 234, 236, 238, 287, 295, 332, 336; affirmative, 325, 340n9

biopower, 33, 326, 236, 336

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

blue humanities, 13, 47, 54

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-brain, 87, 128

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

Boyle, Robert, 237, 311, 313

Boysen, Benjamin, 415, 423

Braidotti, Rosi, 13, 48, 54

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

Brown, Nathan, 156, 157

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

Burnett, D. Graham, 77, 90n12

busybodiedness, 233, 236, 246

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

cetology, 78, 213, 416

Chambers, Robert, 325

Chaplin, Charlie: Modern Times, 366

charisma, 235, 263, 383

Charleton, Walter, 313, 315

Chase, Owen, 310

Cheah, Pheng, 371, 374n21

chemistry, 2

Chen, Mel Y., 4, 11, 12

Christianity, 65, 292, 378

civilization, 292, 312, 374n18; industrial, 390, 391, 392

clarity, 145, 188, 359

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, James, 305, 310

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

Cornier, Harriet, 280, 285

Corpus Electromagneticum, 253–62

Coughlin, Charles E., 381, 383

Crabtree, Sarah, 289

Craig, Leon Harold, 226n35

cranium, 84, 85, 284

crime, 23, 38, 295, 296n6

Crypt (club), 402, 403

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

cybernetics, 32, 386, 400

cyborg assemblages, 13, 48, 51, 53, 56

cyborgism, 49, 50–53, 54, 57; Ahab and, 13, 48, 56

Daggoo, 99, 252, 253

Dante, 64n17

Darwin, Charles, 328, 340n16

Darwin, Erasmus, 426

Davis, David Brion, 277, 294

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

death drive, 165, 219, 326–27

Dedlow, George, 131, 132, 139

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

democracy, 385, 392, 405, 414

demos, 28, 263–64

depression, 179–80, 182, 418

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

Devil’s Dungeon, 363, 364

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

dignity, 103, 249, 251

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

discrimination, 3, 42n30, 349

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

economic interest, 25, 223n20

economic structures, 23, 198

economics, 295, 375, 418; politics and, 205

ecotheorists, 55, 59

ego, 1, 168, 174, 418

Einstein, Albert, 202, 218–19

electricity, 7, 8, 102, 201

electrobiology, 234, 235, 236

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

Ellis Island, 32, 390

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

Enlightenment, 287, 288

environment, 5–6, 58, 295; cetacean, 86

environmental humanities, 2, 12, 43n37

epigenesis, 13, 18, 119

epistemology, 38, 81, 111, 118, 231, 238, 278, 422

Erasmus, martyrdom of, 101

Eros, 165

eroticism, 129, 364, 401, 404

Esposito, Roberto, 325

Esquirol, Jean-Étienne-Dominique, 97–98, 281, 282, 283

ethics, 29, 74, 236, 326

etymology, 147, 151, 192

Euripides, 222n12

Evans, K. L., 111, 423; One Foot in the Finite, 174, 422

evolutionary theory, 325, 419

Ewbank, Thomas, 388

exceptionalism, 94, 201, 265

existentialism, 382

expressionism, 19, 148

external objects, body-as-unity and, 52–53

eye, supremacy of, 131

Faerie Queene, 327

Falconer, William, 301, 304

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

fascism, 37, 381

fatalism, 59, 327

Faulkner, William: on Ahab, 36

Fedallah, 57, 135, 171, 172

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

Final Solution, 235, 402

Fink, Bruce, 167, 177n25

Firestone, 392, 393, 394–95

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

Franco, Francisco, 36, 383

Frank, Jason, 200, 223n22, 224n22

Frankfurt School, 384

Franklin, Benjamin, 346, 347

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

Gay Head, 53, 252

gaze, 137, 157, 158, 172, 207, 280, 295, 348, 353, 389

General Motors (GM), 380, 394

Genesis, 246, 258

geography, medical, 26, 287, 299n34

geopolitics, 383

givel, term, 145–46

globules, 87, 206, 207

God, Ahab as, 76

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 325, 426

Golden Rule, 127

Goldstein, Amanda Jo, 414, 426

Goldstein, Jan, 297n15

Goodman, Kevis, 221n4, 226n38

Goodrich, 392

Goodyear, 392, 393, 394

Gray, Stephen, 41n16

Grayson, William, 367

Greene, Nathaniel, 289

grief, 100, 309, 339n4; ancestry/posterity of, 189; insularity of, 187

Grosz, Elizabeth, 325

Grusin, Richard, 12, 33

Guattari, Félix, 20, 174, 178n37

Hacking, Ian, 302, 316

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

Haraway, Donna, 13, 48, 52

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

Hayford, Harrison, 48, 376

Hearst, William Randolph, 383

Hekman, Susan, 12, 273n1

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

Hoffer, Johannes, 313, 315

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

hopeless, 21, 184, 193

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

humanity, 155, 207, 348

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

immateriality, 67, 72, 243

Immigration and Nationality Act (1952), 390

Immigration and Naturalization Service, 390

individualism, 62, 331, 382, 384, 391; self-enclosed, 8, 37

information theory, 380, 386

Inns of Court, 363, 364, 365

instinct, 70, 84, 113, 184, 204, 265, 268

interdependency, 227, 236

inter-est, 211, 224n26

inter-indebtedness, 164

interior, 79; exterior and, 80–81

Interpersonal Multisensory Stimulation, 140

intersubjectivity, 17, 54

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

Ishmaelism, 53–57, 62

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

Jericho horn, 31, 360, 364

Jesus, 157, 342n30

Jeszeck, Charles, 393

Job, 202, 220, 225n33

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

Jupiter, 53, 298n25

Kafka, Franz, 415; “The Cares of a Family Man,” 161–62

Kant, Immanuel, 118, 175

Kantorowicz, Ernst, 231, 242

Katz, Leslie, 130, 132

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

kinship, 55, 101, 230, 231

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

life-in-itself, 325, 339n8

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

living principle, 97, 334

Livingston, Alexander, 218, 220

Locke, John, 175, 315–16, 369; Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 200

logos, 152; phenomena and, 155

London, Keith R., 32, 395

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

Luciano, Dana, 11, 12

Lucretius, 201, 219, 243, 413

Lukács, Georg, 369, 373n17

Lupton, Julia, 221n8

Lyell, Charles, 327, 328

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

marginalization, 33, 34, 280

Margoth, old materialism and, 421

maritime laws, 242, 255, 256, 262

Marr, Timothy, 4, 342n31

Martel, James, 221n4, 226n37

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

Marxism, 198, 200, 363

Massachusetts State Prison, 26, 277

Massachusetts Supreme Court, 277

Master Signifier, 417

material continuum, 13, 82–83

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

materialist turn, 2, 11, 413

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

mechanization, 32, 34, 367

medical humanities, 2, 43n7

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

memory, 75, 76; linear, 220

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

metempsychosis, 323, 333

Meteorological Association (Williams College), 41n25

meterology, 1, 2, 10, 242

Michelin, 393

Middle Passage, 30, 347

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

M’Naghten Rule, 277, 296n8

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

monism, 112, 175, 178n39, 415

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

morbidness, 281, 292, 335

Morgan, J. P., 383

Morrison, Toni, 218, 277, 294

Morton, Timothy, 337

Mote, Carl H., 406n14

Moten, Fred, 197

Mothersbaugh, Bob, 395, 396

Mothersbaugh, Mark, 395, 396, 402

Mottram, Eric, 398, 410n70

Muñoz, José, 217, 226n37

Murison, Justine, 132

Murray, Henry, 36, 376, 383

Mussolini, Benito, 37, 383

mutations, 230, 252, 257, 348

mutiny, 102, 103, 260, 263, 392; Ahab and, 389; threat of, 254, 255

mythology, 237, 239, 349

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

natural history, 77, 353, 416

Nature, 335, 348, 392; culture and, 265; deified, 331

Nazism, 36, 381, 383

necropolitics, 326, 336

necrovitalism, 29, 34

Negri, Antonio, 247, 275n26

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

nonhuman animals, 28, 356

nonhuman assemblages, 48, 228

nonhuman forces, 116, 245

nonhuman turns, 11, 12, 33

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

Oath Ceremony, 241, 269–72

oaths: Ahab and, 271, 272; swearing of, 269–72

objectification, 33, 370, 417

objects: raising/elevating, 177n22; subjects and, 147, 170; symbolic, 359

objet petit a, 170, 171, 172, 177n23, 177n28

Odradek, 161–62, 163

Odysseus, 313, 314

Odyssey, 309, 313

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

Otter, Samuel, 2, 110, 140

“Pacific Man,” 49, 62

pacifism, 203, 219, 288

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

Paracelsus, 86, 91n19

parasitism, 327, 331

Parsees, 57, 171

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

Penny Magazine, 100, 108n6

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

phallus, 20, 172, 173

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

Pierre, 8, 346; Lucy and, 420

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

Plato, 65, 88, 298n25, 420

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 problems, 28, 336

political structures, 23, 214

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

Popular Front, 390, 407n27

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

psychology, 23, 115, 167, 382

Qaddafi, Muammar, 37

quadrupeds, 79–80, 82, 90n14

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

queer turn, 212, 219

queerness, 155, 273n1, 420

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

radial age, 392–95, 409n60

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

Redfield, William, 9, 10

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

res cogitans, 73, 74, 175

R.F.C. See Cook, Robert Francis

riotocracy, 30, 330, 341n23

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

sacrifice, 202, 203, 222n13

Said, Edward, 373n13

Saint Elmo, 40n15, 107, 108; disembowelment of, 102; patronage of, 101

Saint Elmo’s fire, 6, 15, 40, 99, 100, 164

St. James’s Park, 350, 352

Saint Veronica, 368, 369

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

Second Meditation, 74, 75

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-destruction, 324, 326

self-determination, 93, 98, 101

self-interest, 201, 211, 218, 230, 291

self-organization, 386, 398

self-reflection, 87, 426

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

sepulchritude, 325, 419

Serres, Michel, 228, 273, 423

Shakespeare, William, 49, 117, 381

Shaw, Lemuel, 280, 294, 295; Melville’s rebuttal to, 26, 278; Rogers and, 279, 296n8

Shelley, Mary, 425

Shelley, Percy, 425, 426

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

shroud, 50, 51, 52, 53

Shulman, George, 225n33

Siebers, Tobin, 179, 190

similes, 30, 33, 114, 187, 286, 347, 348, 350, 353, 354, 356, 418, 426

Sixth Meditation, 69

skeletons, 78, 79

skulls, 76; cracks in, 110, 114, 115, 117; fibrous, 84; undeveloped, 82

slavery, 240, 278, 293, 301

slaves, 26, 30; wage laborers and, 367

sleepwalking, Ahab and, 95, 96, 98, 334

Smart, Christopher, 311–12

Smithfield Market, 351, 353

Snediker, Michael D., 18, 19, 22, 418, 420, 424, 426; pain and, 20, 38

Snow, C. P., 35–36

Snyder, Sharon L., 155, 194n1

social acerbities, 206, 207

social adhesion, 107, 205

social categories, 19, 130

social construction, 227, 414

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 orders, 29, 32, 229

social relations, 37, 181, 392, 404; behavior in, 398, 405; capitalist, 23–24; noncognitive, 17

sociality, 107, 197, 205, 348

solipsism, 34, 99

somatosensory system, 133, 134

Sontag, Susan, 154, 156

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

Spark, Clare L., 37, 422

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

spinal theory, 82, 83

Spinoza, Baruch, 413, 423

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

suicide, 180, 215, 228, 283

Sull, Donald N., 394, 409n50

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

Tartarus, 323, 365, 370

Tashtego, 52, 99, 213, 253

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

tires, 393–94, 395, 398

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

transcendentalism, 325, 331

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

Trumbull, Henry, 345, 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

vibrant matter, 227, 415, 417

Vietnam War, 396

villi, 14, 80, 81, 84, 86

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

voluntarism, 197, 198, 214, 215, 220