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

Anneke M Smelik

ISBN 10: 0295988096 / ISBN 13: 9780295988092

Published by University Of Washington Press Feb 2008, 2008

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Neuware - 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,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bits of Life : Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press Feb 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295988096
• ISBN 13: 9780295988092
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 254W x 177H x 17D millimeters 254 millimeters width by 177 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 477 grams

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Synopsis

Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a clear distinction between the two. This entanglement of biology with technology isn't new, but the pervasiveness of that integration is staggering, as is the speed at which the two have been merging in recent decades. As this process permeates more of everyday life, the urgent necessity arises to rethink both biology and technology. Indeed, the human body can no longer be regarded either as a bounded entity or as a naturally given and distinct part of an unquestioned whole.

Bits of Life assumes a posthuman definition of the body. It is grounded in questions about today's biocultures, which pertain neither to humanist bodily integrity nor to the anthropological assumption that human bodies are the only ones that matter. Editors Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke aid in mapping changes and transformations and in striking a middle road between the metaphor and the material. In exploring current reconfigurations of bodies and embodied subjects, the contributors pursue a technophilic, yet critical, path while articulating new and thoroughly appraised ethical standards.

About the Author

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.