Body/theory/politic : body-theory -- The Puritans' two bodies -- "'physics' of power" : phase transitions and turbulence in the Antinomian controversy -- Cotton Mather : the angel and the animalcula -- "I am the poet of little things" : Walt Whitman and minor poetics/politics -- A physical theory of heredity/heresy : the education of Henry Adams -- "A sonorous people" : techno-music and the joyful body-politic
Summary
A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history
