... Humanitarian intervention Lakoff George Canguilhelm Georges Johnson Mark Coevolution Marks Michael Walker R B J body politic biopolitics bacteria social theory microbes biome state security ecology Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, aching, attract all matter...

...This chapter demonstrates that the relationship between humans and their commensal bacteria can help International Relations acknowledge and respect multiple perspectives and actors as vital to both politics and to our survival; being human may be less about our individuality and uniqueness than...

... paradigm Walker R B J Ethics Immunology Body Metchnikoff Elie Forum on Microbial Threats Haraway Donna Antibiotic resistant bacteria Metagenomics Whitehead Laurence Microbiome Noise Serres Michel Eukaryotes Entanglement Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Pluralism Symbiosis Posthuman...

... Hobbes Thomas Metchnikoff Elie Nation state Organism Biopower Latour Bruno body politic biopolitics bacteria social theory microbes biome state security ecology I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom...

... biopolitics bacteria social theory microbes biome state security ecology I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them...

... to them. After considering examples of the effect of gold on humans, who are dazzled by its splendor, corrupted by its value, and made cruel through their ravenous hunt for the metal, the chapter observes gold in its interactions with bacteria, governments, collapsing stars, geothermal currents...

... philosophy, science and technology studies and world politics, this pathbreaking book challenges the body-politic on the grounds of its materiality. Just as the human body is not whole and separate from other bodies, but populated by microbes, bacteria, water and radioactive isotopes, Stefanie Fishel argues...