Index

abjection, 118, 272, 281, 298–99, 308, 323–24, 329

Agamben, Giorgio, 48, 141

Alaimo, Stacy, 295–97

Alten, Steve, 66, 68, 72–77

animal rights, 34, 76, 160

Anthropocene, 1–2, 7, 26, 49, 83, 113, 131, 138, 154, 169, 177, 196, 220, 298, 317; anthropocentrism, 12, 52, 220, 266; anxiety, 7–8; death, 223, 323–24

apartheid, 176, 180, 184, 187–89

apocalypse: anthropocenic, 8, 14–15, 21, 94, 130, 315, 330; in popular culture and cultural criticism, 20, 22; (post-)apocalyptic narratives, 190, 255, 260, 264–65, 308, 324, 330–31

Arndt, Ernst Moritz, 221–23

assemblage, 57, 60, 112, 224, 256–58, 271, 273, 278–79, 293, 305, 307–8, 333

Baldick, Chris, 81, 145

Ballard, J. G., 199, 200, 202

Bennett, Jane, 19, 225

Bezan, Sarah, 274, 280

biopower, 154–55, 158, 160, 163–64, 166, 196. See also Foucault, Michel

bodies, 54, 89, 95, 118, 131, 137, 154, 158, 189, 224, 256, 278; blurring of bodily boundaries, 54, 95, 131, 158–59, 225, 254–57, 261, 271, 274, 280

Bogost, Ian, 11, 13

Botting, Fred, 56, 134

Brown, Charles Brockden, 116, 118, 122, 126

Brunner, John, 199–200

Bubandt, Nils, 10, 18, 294

Burgess, Anthony, 200, 202–4, 208

capitalist extraction, 88–89, 214, 216–23

Capitalocene, 106, 139, 169–70, 177–78, 182, 220, 295

Carey, M. R., 255, 265

carnivorism, 156, 158–59, 162–64

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 316, 326

Chthulucene, 220, 249–50, 257–58, 290, 298, 300. See also Haraway, Donna

Clavin, Kevin, 207–8

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, 16–19, 67, 74–75, 79, 224, 291, 305

Colebrook, Claire, 20, 29, 49, 331

colonialism, 84, 88, 92, 95, 141, 152, 176, 179, 181, 189, 220

consumption, 91, 152, 159, 161, 197, 317

cosmic pessimism, 49, 52, 58

Crutzen, Paul, and Eugene Stoemer, 154, 316

cyborg, 17–19. See also Haraway, Donna

dark ecology, 151, 322–26

dark energy, 236, 242–43

de-anthropocentrism, 293–94, 301, 308

death care, 272, 273, 274, 278

Deckard, Sharae, 131, 137

deconstruction, 9. See also Derrida, Jacques

deep time, 14, 29, 40, 131, 225

de-extinction, 27–28, 32–40

demonism, 114, 228, 236, 241, 244

Demos, T. J., 186

Derrida, Jacques, 9, 16, 315, 324–25

desire, 16–17, 218, 294, 299–300

Doughty, Caitlin. See Order of the Good Death

Edelman, Lee, 300

empathy, 253–55

entanglement, 10, 15, 19, 21, 35, 38, 130–31, 224–26, 271, 299

Enlightenment, 112–13, 179, 231, 254

epistemic rift, 179–81, 184–85

exploitation, 19; capitalist, 27, 179, 221, 324; colonial, 37, 179, 181, 189; of past extinctions, 39; of human and extrahuman nature and labor, 72, 75, 115, 138, 140, 142–43, 152, 155–57, 162, 185

extinction, 8, 10, 20–21, 26–28, 30–31, 37, 64, 70, 74, 153, 253

fantastic, the, 87, 182, 324

Fisher, Mark, 10–14, 49, 53, 295, 303

folk gothic, 134–37, 144

Foucault, Michel, 17, 154, 158

Freud, Sigmund, 95, 183, 314, 315, 332–33

Frost, David, 235

fungi, 260–63, 281–85, 333–34

Gan, Elaine, 10, 18, 294

Ghosh, Amitav, 64–65, 183, 187, 254

ghosts, 14, 18, 37, 39, 97, 189

gothic preoccupation with (life after) death, 275, 276, 277, 285

Grusin, Richard, 7, 27

Haden, Francis Seymour, 275–78, 283

Hannibal, 280–81, 283, 285

Haraway, Donna, 17–18, 60, 67, 114, 139–40, 255, 257–59, 266, 271, 278, 285, 290, 298–300, 302, 315, 317

Harman, Graham, 11–14, 133

Harrison, Harry, 199–200, 202

Heise, Ursula, 37–38, 65

Hoffman, E. T. A., 213–16, 220–24, 226, 228, 230–31

horror, 21, 50–51, 53–54, 59, 65–67, 112, 207, 283, 295, 329–31

humanism: (assumed) human exceptionalism, 40, 72, 74, 77, 253, 271, 272, 277; (assumed) human mastery over nature, 7–8, 46, 48, 57–58, 65, 72, 112, 140, 154–55, 223, 308, 317, 327–28, 333; decentering of humanity, 8, 19, 152, 299

hyperobjects, 13–15, 21, 293–94, 320–22, 325. See also Morton, Timothy; object-oriented ontology

intimacy, 213, 229, 329

Kiernan, Caitlín R., 291–308

Kirksey, Eben, 60, 253, 255, 265, 305, 308

labor, 84, 114, 116, 120, 140, 156, 176, 179, 189

Lacan, Jacques, 314, 332

Latour, Bruno, 7, 38, 225

Le Guin, Ursula, 202, 304

Liba-Mama. See Mami Wata

living dead, 26, 162, 188, 190

love, 206, 218, 253–55, 263–65

Lovecraft, Howard Phillips, 7–8, 12–14, 21, 46, 48–60, 258, 291–92, 298, 321

Lynch, David, 235–36, 238–40, 242, 244, 248

MacCormack, Patricia, 20, 45

Malthusianism, 196

mama dlo. See Mami Wata

Mami Wata, 91–94

masculinity, 70, 75, 77, 155, 259

Mashigo, Mohale, 175–77, 181, 184, 188–90

materialism, 51–52, 213, 216, 225, 294, 297

megalodon, 65–72, 76

Miéville, China, 291

Mignolo, Walter, 189

mining, 82, 219–23, 231

monstrosity, 13, 15–20, 22, 54–56, 67, 87, 127, 152, 299–300, 319, 321–26, 328, 330, 332

Monteiro, Fabrice, 90–97

Moore, Jason, 93, 133, 139, 177, 179–82, 184–85, 187, 296

Morton, Timothy, 13–15, 21, 49, 60, 115, 128, 137, 138–39, 142, 293–94, 320, 329

natural death processes, 273

Naturphilosophie, 225–26

necro-ecology, 274, 276–78, 280, 283, 285

Niblett, Michael, 92, 96, 138, 182

Nixon, Rob, 178, 317

Noe, George Edward, 66, 68–69

nonhuman death networks, 285

nostalgia, 27, 38, 145, 242, 246

object-oriented ontology (OOO), 11–14, 293, 294, 297, 320, 324. See also hyperobjects; Morton, Timothy

Okri, Ben, 85–90, 97

Order of the Good Death (death acceptance organization), 278–79

other-than-human, 8, 10, 15–16, 18–19, 21–22, 29, 38, 51–52, 55, 57, 59, 75, 95, 111, 131, 195, 201, 225, 228–29, 257, 265, 271, 273, 276, 285, 291, 322–23, 330. See also object-oriented ontology

overpopulation, 195–201, 203, 206–8

Patel, Raj, 178

Peak, David, 50, 53

petro-economy, 86, 89, 94, 97, 130–32, 134–35, 137–38, 140, 142, 236, 237, 240, 296; ecological damage of petroleum culture, 132; flaring, 88; Nigerian petro-state, 85, 88; petroleum uncanny, 131; petro-magic-realism, 87; petro-nostalgia, 235, 236, 239, 242, 246; petro-predation in Nigeria, 85

plantation: agricultural practices of, 115; colonial, 112, 116, 152; ecologically destructive, 132; global division by production and consumption, 112–13; monocultural production, 112, 114–15, 122, 127, 132, 162, 164; ornamental landscape and horticultural logic, 112, 115–16, 120, 122, 125; Plantationocene, 105–7; racialized, 135, 151. See also exploitation; Haraway, Donna; slavery; Tsing, Anna

pleasure, 117–18, 120, 161, 207, 299

Plumwood, Val, 75, 218

pollution, 55, 83, 219, 318–19

posthumanism, 18, 51, 131, 265. See also Morton, Timothy; object-oriented ontology

psychoanalysis, 9, 11, 315

queering, 300

racial inequality, 82–84, 89–90, 97, 136, 179–80, 188. See also slavery

realism, 13, 64–65, 200, 225, 254, 258. See also speculative realism

re-extinction, 34–35, 38–39

representation, 90, 195; in terms of a crisis of, 64, 198–201, 207, 295–97, 317, 325

repressed, the, 13, 32, 151. See also Freud, Sigmund

Revive and Restore (nonprofit), 33, 36–38

Rose-Innes, Henrietta, 183–84, 187–88

Schubert, Gotthilf Heinrich, 221, 223–27, 231

science fiction, 14, 47, 48, 65, 67, 203, 258

Sharpe, Christina, 83–84, 90

Shelley, Mary, 202, 241, 270–71, 274, 319, 326–29

Shriver, Lionel, 201, 204–6

Sixth Mass Extinction, 28–29, 73, 257, 294

slavery, 84, 89, 91, 94, 120, 131, 139–43, 145

slow violence, 64, 83, 178, 219, 317

Song, Min Hyoung, 130–31, 135, 141–42

Spade, Katrina (creator of Recompose), 279, 282–83

spectrality, 8–9, 13, 15, 22, 27–28, 324

speculative realism, 7, 12–14, 21, 293, 297, 320

state of exception, 45–49

strange, the, 10–12, 93, 133, 298–99, 320–21, 325

sublime, the, 326–31

suffocation, 82, 84–85, 89–90

Swanson, Heather, 10, 18, 294

terror, 81–82, 89, 96, 112, 299, 326, 331

Thacker, Eugene, 21, 294

toxicity, 84–85, 89–90, 95–98

True Detective, 130–36, 138–45

Tsing, Anna, 113–15, 271, 279, 284–85, 333

uncanny, the, 7, 9–11, 13, 15, 22, 27, 89, 91, 127, 131, 152, 183–87, 213–15, 227, 229, 230–31, 243, 247, 254, 258, 272, 304, 320–22, 324. See also Freud, Sigmund

unconscious, the, 202, 314–15, 332. See also Freud, Sigmund

undead See living dead

uneven violence, 82–84, 90, 94, 156

vampirism, 88, 156, 202

VanderMeer, Jeff, 15, 27, 46, 49, 55–58, 60, 292

Vasudevan, Pavithra, 83–84

vegetarianism, 159–63

Walker, George Alfred, 275–78, 283

Wallerstein, Immanuel, 88, 178–80

waste, 84, 88–91, 94, 96, 139

Water-Mamma. See Mami Wata

web of life, 180, 184, 187. See also Moore, Jason

weeds, 114–15, 122, 124, 127

Weinstock, Jeffrey, 27, 32, 51

weird, the, 11–15, 21–22, 58–59, 61, 133, 152, 238, 245, 254, 290–99, 301, 303, 308, 317, 320–21, 323

Wenzel, Jennifer, 131, 140–41

Williams, Raymond, 115–16

Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J., 21–22

Yusoff, Kathryn, 219

zombie, the, 17, 30–32, 47, 264, 323