Species and Machines

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

• ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface1. Introduction: Nature, Species and Machines1.1. The Significance of the Cambridge Declaration1.2. Anthropocene Cultures and Signals1.3. The Rise of the Machines1.4. Marc Bloch and the Machine1.5. Classical Sociology and the Machine1.6. Machine Aesthetics1.7. Species, Human ‘Nature’ and Machines2. Marx and the Machines2.1. Marxism and Nature2.2. Reading the Grundrisse2.3. John Bellamy Foster and the Metabolic Rift2.4. Engels, Manchester and Machines2.5. Engels and Nature2.6. The Futures of Nature3. The Cetacean Holocaust3.1. Eternal Treblinka3.2. The Human Invasion3.3. The Cetacean Holocaust Begins3.4. Scoresby and the Greenland Trade3.5. Melville’s Modernity4. The Human Encampments4.1. Theorising Campitude4.2. Camps of Extinction, Refuge and Flight4.3. Camps of Secessia4.4. The Meaning of Human Camps4.5. The Metropolis and Modernity5. Locomotive Cultures5.1. Motive-power, Technics and the Hand5.2. Technics and Leroi-Gourhan5.3. The Locomotive as Dream5.4. The Locomotive as Nightmare5.5. Metabolic Vehicles6. Memory, Animals and Nature6.1. Documenting the Arctic and Antarctic6.2. Cetacean Memory6.3. Seeing and Listening to Animals6.4. Rethinking Dominion6.5. Biology, Species and Memory6.6. Archives of Cetacea6.7. In the Belly of the Whale7. Natures, Cultures, Futures7.1. Labour, Reproduction and Nature7.2. The Animal Counter-republics7.3. The Field, the Forest and the IslandBibliography