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Book SynopsisSince World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a distinction between the two. This title deals with the fusion of biological and technological power and the entanglements of biocultures.
Trade Review"..[Mark[s] the profound theoretical shifts that accompany new configurations of life and the material in a posthuman age. . . . [Provides] succinct and rich overviews of where feminist studies, especially feminist technoscience studies, stands today."
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Bits of Life: An Introduction / Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke
PART 1. HISTORIES AND GENEALOGIES
1. Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience: Portrait of an Implosion / Nina Lykke
2. Roots and Routes: The Making of Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience / Maureen McNeil
3. "There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought!" Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: Interview with Donna Haraway / Nina Lykke, Randi Markussen, and Finn Olesen
PART 2. RECONFIGURED BODIES
4. Fluid Ecologies: Changing Hormonal Systems of Embodied Difference / Celia Roberts
5. Parenthood and Kinship in IVF for Humans and Animals: On Traveling Bits of Life in the Age of Genetics / Amade M'Charek and Grietje Keller
6. From Rambo Sperm to Egg Queens: Two Versions of Lennart Nilsson's Film on Human Reproduction / Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke
7. Screening the Gene: Hollywood Cinema and the Genetic Imaginary / Jackie Stacey
PART 3. REMEDIATED BODIES
8. MyLifeBits: The Computer as Memory Machine / Jose van Dijck
9. Tunnel Vision: Inner, Outer, and Virtual Space in Science Fiction Films and Medical Documentaries / Anneke Smelik
10. What if Frankenstein('s Monster) Was a Girl?: Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age / Jenny Sunden
PART 4. PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE
11. Living in a Posthumanist Material World: Lessons from Schrodinger's Cat / Karen Barad
12. The Politics of Life as Bios/Zoe / Rosi Braidotti
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Contributors
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