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Informationen zum Autor Phillip Thurtle Klappentext Using sources ranging from horse-breeding manuals to eugenics treatises, natural history tables to railway surveys, and novels to personal diaries, and drawing on the work of figures as diverse as Thorstein Veblen, Jack London, Edith Wharton, William James, and Luther Burbank, this edition uses David Starr Jordan--naturalist, poet, eugenicist, and educator--as a touchstone for deciphering the mode of rationality that genetics superseded. Zusammenfassung Explains the technological! economic! cultural and narrative transformations necessary to make genetic thinking possible. This book offers a cultural history that challenges our own ways of organizing knowledge even as it explicates those of an earlier era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction I. Harnessing Heredity: Middle Class Mores and Information Management in Large-Scale Breeding Prelude 1. Middle Class Mores: Beaufort's Bastards 2. Breeding True: Processing a New Elite Conclusion -"A Backward Glance": Corporate Inheritance as Bastard Birth II. Fish-Market Phenomenology: The Habits of Thought and the Space of Exchange in Late Nineteenth-Century Natural History Prelude 3. The Political Economy of Natural History 4. Homologous Networks of Exchange: The Intersubjective Infrastructure of Scientific Exchange 5. Categorizing Experience: Space and Time in Nineteenth-Century Natural History 6. The Pacific Railway Survey: The Subject in the Panoramic Mode III. History Writing Great Men Writing History: Recapitulation Narratives and Stories as Scientific Models Prelude 7. Storied Pasts 8. The Plot Thickens: The Political Economic Dimensions of Biological Stories Conclusion -Osborn and the Horse: The Conservative Literary Inheritance of Evolutionary Stories IV. The Poetics of Wandering: Time, Narrative, and the Affective/Phenomenological Body Prelude 9. Wandering and Narrative 10. Wandering and Inheritance in Light of the Sensory-Motor Complex 11. Writing, Goods, and Memory Conclusion -New Folds in Space and Time V. Hybrid Space, Hybrid Time: Record Keeping and the Indexing of Genomic Space and Time Prelude 12. Industrial Perspectives: Luther Burbank 13. Record Keeping: A Post-Hermeneutic Means for Charting the Space of Flows Conclusion The Different Domains of Life Notes Bibliography Index ...
