Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: This Thing We Call Life
  • Life Is Like a Verb: A Conversation with Dorion Sagan
  • 1 Life in Water, Life in Stone: The Limits of Bioidentification
  • Kinship, Consent, and Mutual Responsibility: A Conversation with Kyle Whyte
  • 2 A Sense of Commonality: Bioidentification in Deep Ecology
  • 3 Death Itself: The Politics of Human Extinction
  • 4 "This Universe Belongs to Life": Planetary Protection and Planetary Belonging
  • Signs of Life: A Conversation with Catharine Conley
  • Conclusion: De Anima
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index