{"product_id":"bits-of-life-9780295988092","title":"Bits of Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"..[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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Signs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBits of Life\u003c\/i\u003e: An Introduction \/ Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 1. HISTORIES AND GENEALOGIES\u003cbr\u003e 1. Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience: Portrait of an Implosion \/ Nina Lykke\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Roots and Routes: The Making of Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience \/ Maureen McNeil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. \"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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 2. RECONFIGURED BODIES\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fluid Ecologies: Changing Hormonal Systems of Embodied Difference \/ Celia Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Parenthood and Kinship in IVF for Humans and Animals: On Traveling \u003ci\u003eBits of Life\u003c\/i\u003e in the Age of Genetics \/ Amade M'Charek and Grietje Keller\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. From Rambo Sperm to Egg Queens: Two Versions of Lennart Nilsson's Film on Human Reproduction \/ Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Screening the Gene: Hollywood Cinema and the Genetic Imaginary \/ Jackie Stacey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 3. REMEDIATED BODIES\u003cbr\u003e 8. MyLifeBits: The Computer as Memory Machine \/ Jose van Dijck\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Tunnel Vision: Inner, Outer, and Virtual Space in Science Fiction Films and Medical Documentaries \/ Anneke Smelik\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. What if Frankenstein('s Monster) Was a Girl?: Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age \/ Jenny Sunden\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 4. PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE\u003cbr\u003e 11. Living in a Posthumanist Material World: Lessons from Schrodinger's Cat \/ Karen Barad\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Politics of Life as Bios\/Zoe \/ Rosi Braidotti\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400916050263,"sku":"9780295988092","price":33.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295988092.jpg?v=1730471939","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bits-of-life-9780295988092","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}