Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction: Nature, Species and Machines
1.1. The Significance of the Cambridge Declaration
1.2. Anthropocene Cultures and Signals
1.3. The Rise of the Machines
1.4. Marc Bloch and the Machine
1.5. Classical Sociology and the Machine
1.6. Machine Aesthetics
1.7. Species, Human ‘Nature’ and Machines
2. Marx and the Machines
2.1. Marxism and Nature
2.2. Reading the Grundrisse
2.3. John Bellamy Foster and the Metabolic Rift
2.4. Engels, Manchester and Machines
2.5. Engels and Nature
2.6. The Futures of Nature
3. The Cetacean Holocaust
3.1. Eternal Treblinka
3.2. The Human Invasion
3.3. The Cetacean Holocaust Begins
3.4. Scoresby and the Greenland Trade
3.5. Melville’s Modernity
4. The Human Encampments
4.1. Theorising Campitude
4.2. Camps of Extinction, Refuge and Flight
4.3. Camps of Secessia
4.4. The Meaning of Human Camps
4.5. The Metropolis and Modernity
5. Locomotive Cultures
5.1. Motive-power, Technics and the Hand
5.2. Technics and Leroi-Gourhan
5.3. The Locomotive as Dream
5.4. The Locomotive as Nightmare
5.5. Metabolic Vehicles
6. Memory, Animals and Nature
6.1. Documenting the Arctic and Antarctic
6.2. Cetacean Memory
6.3. Seeing and Listening to Animals
6.4. Rethinking Dominion
6.5. Biology, Species and Memory
6.6. Archives of Cetacea
6.7. In the Belly of the Whale
7. Natures, Cultures, Futures
7.1. Labour, Reproduction and Nature
7.2. The Animal Counter-republics
7.3. The Field, the Forest and the Island
Bibliography
Biography
Martyn Hudson is an associate researcher in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, and author of The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origins of Modernity, and .Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory
