| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Science Studies
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Science studies.
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| Contents |
1 Mapping the Terrain; Technology Beyond Determinism; The Technological is Political; Technology and the Body: An Asymmetrical Relation; 2 Locating the Technological with/in Rhizomatic Networks; The Mode of Existence of Technical Objects; Technical Mediation as Processes of Mutual Mobilization; Power and Agency in Heterogeneous Networks; Relational Ontology and the Question of the Political; The Absent Present Body; 3 Re(con)figuring the Apparatus; On Material-Semiotic Actors and Generative Nodes Apparatuses as Boundary-Drawing Practices Figurations Matter: The Techno-Apparatus as Figure and Method; 4 Cutting Technology and the Body Together-Apart; Difference that Matters: The Biopolitics of the Spirometer; Materializing Authentic Bodies: The Human Provenance Pilot Project; Conclusions: A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body. |
| Summary |
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 |
| Biography |
Josef Barla is a postdoctoral 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Technology -- Philosophy.
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Technology -- Philosophy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barla, Josef. Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production : A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body. Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, ©2019 9783837647440 |
| ISBN |
3839447445 (electronic book) |
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9783839447444 (electronic book) |
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9783837647440 |
| Standard No. |
10.14361/9783839447444. |
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