BITS OF LIFE.
FEMINISM AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF MEDIA, BIOSCIENCE, AND
TECHNOLOGY
Contents
Bits of Life ix
An Introduction
ANNEKE SMELIK and NINA LYKKE
PART 1
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HISTORIES AND GENEALOGIES
1
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Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience 3
Portrait of an Implosion
NINA LYKKE
2
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Roots and Routes 16
The Making of Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience
MAUREEN MCNEIL
3
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“There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought!”
32
Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: Interview with Donna Haraway
NINA LYKKE, RANDI MARKUSSEN, and FINN OLESEN
PART 2
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RECONFIGURED BODIES
4
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Fluid Ecologies 45
Changing Hormonal Systems of Embodied Difference
CELIA ROBERTS
5
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Parenthood and Kinship in IVF for Humans and Animals 61
On Traveling Bits of Life in the Age of Genetics
AMADE M’CHAREK and GRIETJE KELLER
6
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From Rambo Sperm to Egg Queens 79
Two Versions of Lennart Nilsson’s Film on Human Reproduction
METTE BRYLD AND NINA LYKKE
7
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Screening the Gene 94
Hollywood Cinema and the Genetic Imaginary
JACKIE STACEY
PART 3
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REMEDIATED BODIES
8
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MyLifeBits 113
The Computer as Memory Machine
JOSÉ VAN DIJCK
9
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Tunnel Vision 129
Inner, Outer, and Virtual Space in Science Fiction Films and Medical
Documentaries
ANNEKE SMELIK
10
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What If Frankenstein(‘s Monster) Was a Girl?
147
Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age
JENNY SUNDÉN

PART 4
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PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE
11
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Living in a Posthumanist Material World 167
Lessons from Schrödinger’s Cat
KAREN BARAD
12
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The Politics of Life as Bios /Zoe 179
ROSI BRAIDOTTI
Bibliography 196
Contributors 211
Index 215