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,
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
Anneke Smelik is professor of visual culture at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Nina Lykke is professor of gender studies, Linkoeping University, Sweden, and head of the Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies.