Bits of Life

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Anneke M. Smelik and Nina Lykke Klappentext Provocative essays inquire into the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of a feminist approach to the meeting of biotechnology and information technology. A speedy, smart, provocative, hybrid assemblage of essays on contemporary technoscientific and mass(ively) mediated cultural transformations that is deeply invested in helping us think our way toward possible futures."--Jackie Orr, Syracuse University. Anneke Smelik is professor of visual culture at Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Nina Lykke is professor of gender studies, Linkoeping University, Sweden, Zusammenfassung Since 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 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 Bibliography Contributors Index ...

Autorentext

Edited by Anneke M. Smelik and Nina Lykke

Klappentext

Provocative essays inquire into the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of a feminist approach to the meeting of biotechnology and information technology. A speedy, smart, provocative, hybrid assemblage of essays on contemporary technoscientific and mass(ively) mediated cultural transformations that is deeply invested in helping us think our way toward possible futures."--Jackie Orr, Syracuse University. Anneke Smelik is professor of visual culture at Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Nina Lykke is professor of gender studies, Linkoeping University, Sweden,

Zusammenfassung
Since 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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

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

Bibliography

Contributors

Index