vortex, 8–9, 10, 11, 259, 294; closing, 9, 153; Descartian, 302, 308, 332

vulture, 166, 285, 286, 298n25, 334; monstrousness of, 335

Wade, Nicholas, 230

Wallerstein, Immanuel, 373n11

walu, term, 152

Washington, George, 57

water, 216–17; madness and, 217–18

Weber, Max, 291, 385

whale oil, 209, 307–8, 310, 311, 380

whalebone, 184, 307, 309, 312, 329

Whaleman’s Chapel, 85

whalers, 26, 305, 312, 380; doubloon and, 248; scurvy and, 306

whales: aesthetic transcendence of, 150; normal, 248; studying, 87. See also sperm whales

whaleships, 223n18, 312, 382

whaling, 248, 249, 278, 293, 380, 419; labor of, 58

whaling industry, 148, 192, 261, 289, 380, 388

white collar, 361, 370, 385

white rage, 26, 286–93, 294

white supremacy, 218, 351

whiteness, 97, 121, 151, 218, 277, 280, 281, 288, 294, 335

Whitman, Walt, 165, 415

whole mind, whole body and, 69–70

Whyte, Jessica, 226n36

Williams, Stanley, 43n46

Willis, Thomas, 313, 315

Wilson, Eric, 1

Wilson, Ivy, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 417

Wohl, Victoria, 21n4, 222n12

Wolfe, Cary, 42n35

Wolff, Nathan, 42n31

Woodcock, Squire, 354

Woodford, Orrin, 280

Wordsworth, William, 290, 420

wrinkled brow, 110, 120–23

Yillah, 10

ymbutan, term, 151–52

Young, Philip, 373n10

Žižek, Slavoj, 20–21, 176n8, 176n13, 275n27, 242; on castration, 173; on death drive, 165; objet petit a and, 177n23; on phallic objects, 172; prosthetic leg and, 173; on subjectivity, 169–70

Zupančič, Alenka, 175