| Late 19th Century | 1980s |
|---|---|
| Representation | Simulation |
| Bourgeois novel | Science fiction |
| Realism and modernism | Postmodernism |
| Organism | Biotic component, code |
| Work | Text |
| Mimesis | Play of signifiers |
| Depth, integrity | Surface, boundary |
| Heat | Noise |
| Biology as clinical practice | Biology as inscription |
| Physiology | Communications engineering |
| Microbiology, tuberculosis | Immunology, AIDS |
| Magic bullet | Immunomodulation |
| Small group | Subsystem |
| Perfection | Optimization |
| Eugenics | Genetic engineering |
| Decadence | Obsolescence |
| Hygiene | Stress Management |
| Organic division of labour | Ergonomics, cybernetics |
| Functional specialization | Modular construction |
| Biological determinism | System constraints |
| Reproduction | Replication |
| Individual | Replicon |
| Community ecology | Ecosystem |
| Racial chain of being | United Nations Humanism |
| Colonialism | Transnational capitalism |
| Nature/culture | Fields of difference |
| Co-operation | Communications enhancement |
| Freud | Lacan |
| Labour | Robotics |
| Mind | Artificial intelligence |
| Second World War | Star Wars |
| White capitalist patriarchy | Informatics of domination |
Cited: The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies [*2]
| Pre-Second World War | Post-Second World War |
|---|---|
| Represented by R.M. Yerkes | Represented by E.O. Wilson |
| Psychobiology | Sociobiology |
| human engineering | communication control |
| organism | cybernetic machine |
| physiology | systems theory |
| intelligence | information |
| person | gene |
| personality science | population genetics and ecology |
| sex and mind | genes and survival machine |
| instinct and engineering | constraints and choice or redesign of trajectories |
| time-motion studies | ergonomics |
| human relations management | sociotechnical systems management optimization |
| adaptivity | optimization |
| eugenics for race hygiene | sexual investment strategies for geneteic profit |
| nervous system for integration | sensory channels and processing centres for environmental tracking |
| endocrine system for integration | chemical communication for environmental tracking |
| homoeostasis | feedback and other control system mechanism |
| superorganism | population |
Cited: The Biological Enterprise [*4]
| universal rationality | ethnophilosophies |
| common language | heteroglossia |
| new organon | deconstruction |
| unified field theory | oppositional positioning |
| world system | local knowledges |
| master theory | webbed accounts |
Cited: Situated Knowledges