ToC -- Cover -- Back Cover -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Popular Science, Evolution and Global Information Management -- I. Reconstructing the social and scientific -- II. Scientific and cultural narratives of expansion -- III. Information and control systems -- IV. Historicizing science -- 2 Dirty Naturalism and the Regime of Thermodynamic Self-Organization -- I. Social regulation and the power of art -- II. Self-organization and energy flows -- III. Ecocriticism and thermodynamics -- IV. Social work and moral parasites -- 3 The Ecology of Empire -- I. The Call of the Wild and the national frontier -- II. Wild Fang and the ideology of domestication -- III. The multiplicity of animal bodies -- IV. Ghosts of American citizens -- V. Where to draw the line? Biological kinshipand legal discourse -- 4 After the Flood: Performance and Nation -- I. Managing life -- II. Business morality and Western water policy -- III. 'Constitutional restlessness' and 'something not ourselves' -- IV. Systems of art: perception and communication -- V. Pure fiction -- 5 The Miseducation of Henry Adams: Fantasies of Race,Citizenship and Biological Dynamos -- I. Evolution as historical process -- II. Thermodynamics and citizenship -- III. The new American as techno-subject -- IV. Beyond evolution: information, control and paranoia -- V. 'The Rule of Phase Applied to History' -- VI. 'A Letter to American Teachers of History' -- Conclusion -- I. Henry Adams: ecocritic? -- II. 'Cyborg politics' and the technoscientific regime -- III. The American System and global debt -- IV. Biopolitics and posthuman life: the call of Jack London -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.