Bits of Life: Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and TechnologyAnneke Smelik, Nina Lykke 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. |
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Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience 3 | 3 |
Roots and Routes | 16 |
There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought | 32 |
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