The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production : A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body

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. Cover Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 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 References

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.

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