The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production

Josef Barla

ISBN 10: 3837647447 / ISBN 13: 9783837647440

Published by Transcript Verlag Mär 2025, 2025

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Neuware -What if the terms 'technology' and 'the body' did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another What if we understood their relationship as far more intimate - technologies as always already embodied, material bodies as always already technologized What would it mean, then, to understand the relationship between technology and the body as a relation of indeterminacy Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)political, and economic forces intra-act.transcript Verlag, Hermannstraße 26, 33602 Bielefeld 232 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Mär 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837647447
• ISBN 13: 9783837647440
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 148H x 17D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 367 grams

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Synopsis

What if the terms "technology" and "the body" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their relationship as far more intimate – technologies as always already embodied, material bodies as always already technologized? What would it mean, then, to understand the relationship between technology and the body as a relation of indeterminacy?
Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)political, and economic forces intra-act.

About the Author

Josef Barla is a postdoc researcher in the Biotechnology, Nature and Society research group based at Goethe University Frankfurt. He studied Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on questions at the intersection of technology, ecology, (techno-)biopolitics, and care.