| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the politics of low temperature / Joanna Radin & Emma Kowal -- A cryopolitics to reclaim our frozen material states / Michael Bravo -- The rise of cryopower : biopolitics in the age of cryogenic life / Alexander Friedrich -- Ode to the ice bucket / Soraya de Chadarevian -- Nature and the refrigerating machine : the politics and production of cold in the nineteenth century / Rebecca Woods -- Stockpiling as a technique of preparedness : conserving the past for an unpredictable future / Frédéric Keck -- Reflections on the zone of the incomplete / Deborah Bird Rose -- Out of the glacier into the freezer : Ötzi the Iceman's disruptive timings, spacings, and mobilities / David Turnbull -- Beyond the life/not life binary : a feminist-indigenous reading of cryopreservation, interspecies thinking and the new materialisms / Kim TallBear -- Suspense : cryopolitics of the body / Klaus Hoeyer -- The freezer program : value after life / Jonny Bunning -- The frozen archive, or defrosting derrida / Warwick Anderson -- Banking the forest : loss, hope and care in Hawaiian conservation / Thom van Dooren -- Freezing the ark : the cryopolitics of endangered species preservation / Matthew Chrulew -- The utopia for the golden frog of Panama / Eben Kirksey -- The cryopolitics of survival from the cold war to the present : a fugue / Charis Thompson -- Index. |
| Summary |
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc.
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Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc. |
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Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Methods.
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Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Political aspects.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Death -- Psychological aspects. |
| Indexed Term |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Methods (Music)
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| Added Author |
Radin, Joanna, editor.
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Kowal, Emma, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cryopolitics. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2017] (DLC) 2016031905 |
| ISBN |
9780262338691 (electronic book) |
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0262338696 (electronic book) |
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9780262338707 |
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026233870X |
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9780262035859 |
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0262035855 |
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