Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World

Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Freezing Politics......Page 11
1 Introduction: The Politics of Low Temperature......Page 13
Description of Chapters......Page 24
Notes......Page 30
References......Page 31
Introduction......Page 37
From Inert Ice to Frozen States......Page 44
Dwelling in Frozen States......Page 48
Situating Cryopolitics Historically......Page 50
Reclaiming a Progressive Cryopolitics: Materialities, Temporalities, and Generative Capacities......Page 53
Conclusion: Reclaiming a Dynamic Cryopolitics of Home and Dwelling......Page 60
References......Page 62
Cryogenic Culture and Artificial Cryosphere......Page 69
Cryopower and Cryogenic Life......Page 71
Horizontal and Vertical Regimes of Artificial Cold......Page 74
Cryopolitics as Biopolitical Economy of Cold......Page 75
Notes......Page 76
References......Page 77
Freeze Frames: Life, Time, and Ice......Page 81
Technics of Freezing......Page 91
4 Ode to the Ice Bucket......Page 93
Notes......Page 97
References......Page 98
5 Nature and the Refrigerating Machine: The Politics and Production of Cold in the Nineteenth Century......Page 99
A Species of Steam Engine......Page 101
Artificial Arctics......Page 103
A Fleeting Commodity......Page 106
Imperial Appetites......Page 107
A Most Beneficial Application......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 118
Notes......Page 120
References......Page 122
Introduction: Frozen Corpses, Chilled Chickens......Page 127
Anthropology of Virus Hunters......Page 130
Storing Viral Samples......Page 134
Stockpiling Vaccines......Page 138
A Cold War Genealogy: Storing Oil, Stockpiling Weapons......Page 141
Notes......Page 147
References......Page 148
Freezing Ontologies......Page 153
Anthropocene......Page 155
Disruptions......Page 156
Time Ideology and Linearity......Page 157
The Elasticity of Time and the Long Transitive Moment......Page 159
Restoration and Apocalypse......Page 160
Messiah Envy......Page 162
Notes......Page 163
References......Page 164
8 Out of the Glacier into the Freezer: Ötzi the Iceman’s Disruptive Timings, Spacings, and Mobilities......Page 167
Notes......Page 181
References......Page 182
9 Beyond the Life/Not-Life Binary: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Cryopreservation, Interspecies Thinking, and the New Materia......Page 189
First Critique: Cryopreservation Is Implicated in the Colonial Appropriation of Indigenous Natural Resources......Page 191
Second Critique: Cryopreservation Aims to Preserve Indigenous DNA, but Is Predicated on Indigenous Death......Page 192
Third Critique: Genomic Indigeneity Is an Inadequate Form of Indigenous Resistance to the Death Narrative......Page 195
Indigenizing Interspecies Thinking......Page 197
What Is not New about the New Materialisms? An Indigenous Metaphysic Networked Sets of Social-Material Relations......Page 199
Life, Blood, and a Sacred Stone......Page 204
Learning to See the Others......Page 207
References......Page 209
Freezing Bodies......Page 213
10 Suspense: Reflections on the Cryopolitics of the Body......Page 215
Person and Thing: The Material Practices of Making Body Parts Exchangeable......Page 217
Self and Other: Enacting Boundaries with Cryopreservation......Page 219
Concluding Remarks......Page 221
References......Page 222
11 The Freezer Program: Value after Life......Page 225
History of Cryonics in Fiction and Fact......Page 230
Cryonics as History......Page 238
Realizing the Value of Cryonics......Page 241
Notes......Page 246
References......Page 249
12 The Frozen Archive, or Defrosting Derrida......Page 255
Spectral Commodities......Page 257
The Frozen Archive......Page 260
Defrosting Derrida......Page 262
References......Page 263
Freezing Species......Page 267
Introduction......Page 269
Ho‘awa: Seeds, Stasis, and the Promise of Vitality to Come......Page 273
‘Alala: Birds and Frayed Relationalities......Page 277
Kahuli: Snails, Hope, and Loss......Page 282
Notes......Page 287
References......Page 289
14 Freezing the Ark: The Cryopolitics of Endangered Species Preservation......Page 293
The Frozen Ark Project......Page 294
The Biopolitics of Captive Breeding......Page 298
The Epistemology of the Postvital Life Sciences......Page 300
The Temporality of Cryopreservation......Page 302
The Cryopolitics of Frozen Zoos......Page 305
Questionable Futurology......Page 309
Notes......Page 311
References......Page 312
15 The Utopia for the Golden Frog of Panama......Page 317
The Year of the Frog (Panama, December 2008)......Page 318
Live Free or Die......Page 326
The Frog Fridge......Page 328
Capture and Escape......Page 332
Future Promise......Page 337
Notes......Page 339
References......Page 341
16 The Cryopolitics of Survival from the Cold War to the Present: A Fugue......Page 345
Notes......Page 349
References......Page 350
Contributors......Page 353
Index......Page 357