Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Series Preface ix
5. Introduction: The Biopolitics of Metabolic Disturbance 1
6. Part I: Macro-Peristalsis
7. 1 Metabolic Rift and the Remedy of Faecal Recycling 25
8. 2 Faecal Habitus 45
9. 3 Marx’s Regulation of Metabolism 58
10. 4 The Second Brain 80
11. Part II: Micro-Peristalsis
12. 5 Unkinking, Streamlining and the Household Engineer 109
13. 6 The Peristaltic Desiring- Machine of Miss Louise 129
14. 7 The Creative Devolution of Reverse Peristalsis 146
15. 8 Peristaltic Politics of a Suffragette 187
16. Conclusion: Faecal Biopolitics in the Twenty- First Century 231
17. Bibliography 262
18. Index 275