Bits of Life : Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology

Acknowledgments vii Bits of Life ix An Introduction Anneke Smelik Nina Lykke PART 1 HISTORIES AND GENEALOGIES Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience Portrait of an Implosion 3(13) Nina Lykke Roots and Routes The Making of Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience 16(16) Maureen McNeil ``There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought!'' Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: Interview with Donna Haraway 32(13) Nina Lykke Randi Markussen Finn Olesen PART 2 RECONFIGURED BODIES Fluid Ecologies Changing Hormonal Systems of Embodied Difference 45(16) Celia Roberts Parenthood and Kinship in IVF for Humans and Animals On Traveling Bits of Life in the Age of Genetics 61(18) Amade M'Charek Grietje Keller From Rambo Sperm to Egg Queens Two Versions of Lennart Nilsson's Film on Human Reproduction 79(15) Mette Bryld Nina Lykke Screening the Gene Hollywood Cinema and the Genetic Imaginary 94(19) Jackie Stacey PART 3 REMEDIATED BODIES My Life Bits The Computer as Memory Machine 113(16) Jose Van Dijck Tunnel Vision Inner, Outer, and Virtual Space in Science Fiction Films and Medical Documentaries 129(18) Anneke Smelik What If Frankenstein('s Monster) Was a Girl? Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age 147(18) Jenny Sunden PART 4 PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE Living in a Posthumanist Material World Lessons from Schrodinger's Cat 165(12) Karen Barad The Politics of Life as Bios/Zoe 177(16) Rosi Braidotti Bibliography 193(16) Contributors 209(3) Index 212