kinship (continued)

genetic kinship, 4–5, 18–19, 24, 50, 87, 90, 92, 101–102, 122, 139, 176, 179–180, 182

mundane kinship, x, 9, 12, 18–19, 143–152, 160, 174, 176, 180–183

strange kinship, 8, 41–42, 122, 131, 140, 174, 176

Kristeva, Julia, 64–67, 74, 90

laboratrope, 148–149, 151, 153

Latour, Bruno, 4, 14, 37, 125, 177n2

magic, 24, 30, 69, 73

mammalian membership/equipment, 3, 5–6, 9, 18–20, 31, 43, 49–50, 81, 88–90, 92–99, 101–102, 104n4, 107–108, 117, 119, 124, 143–149, 151, 160, 167, 170, 173–174, 176, 181–183

Mayhew, Henry, 69–73

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 8, 17–18, 41–42, 54n14, 119–122, 131–133, 139, 141n4, 142n5, 174

monsters, 163, 172

mouse

in film and literature, 20, 59

laboratory, ix, 2, 5–6, 24, 27, 29–31, 46, 66-67, 75–77, 79–81, 84n17, 86n30, 88–96, 101–102, 104n4, 114, 129, 141n3, 144–150, 159, 163–165, 169–171, 171n3, 171n5, 181, 183

pet, 20–22, 46–49, 54n5, 58, 83n9

vermin, 1, 20–22, 58, 61–65

murder, 10, 112, 136, 154

Nature, xi, 13–15, 20, 29–34, 37, 41, 97, 109–115, 118, 133, 135, 138–139, 148, 150, 160, 177n2, 177n5

natureculture, 31

nature, of laboratory rodents, 12, 17, 28, 20–32, 53n1, 84n15, 145, 148–149

Nazis, 111, 134, 136, 162, 170

neo-Cartesianism, 38, 48

non-speci-alSee also un-speci-al ‘we’, 95–96

Oncomouse, 24, 29–31, 79, 81, 96

Phenomenology, 38–44, 142n5

pinkie pup, 95, 136, 177n4

posthumanism, 37, 41, 47, 112, 140

posthuman biopolitics, 112, 135, 140

present-at-hand, 113–114, 163

Queen Victoria, 22, 69–71, 83n4, 156

rabbits, 44, 104n4, 127, 168–169, 172–173, 175

rat

commensal, 60–62, 82n2

in film and literature, 59–60, 73

laboratory, 2–12, 20, 24–32, 46–53, 53n4, 58–59, 74–81, 84n15, 84n16, 84n18, 84n20, 85n23, 85n25, 85n26, 86n31, 88–103, 107, 109, 112–115, 125–161, 164–170, 173–184

pet, 21–24, 45, 47, 49, 53n5, 58, 69–74, 83n10, 85n23

vermin, 21–24, 27, 53n5, 58, 64–66, 69–74