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

As an entanglement itself, this book would not exist if it were not for the help, ideas, and contributions of friends, colleagues, and many other things of material and immaterial nature. Setting up a list cannot do justice for the friendships, intellectual and personal encounters, and the companionships that made it possible to write this book over the last few yearswhich went by all too quickly. Nevertheless, I wish to thank all those minds and hearts that inspired and encouraged me to write this book, hoping that one way or the other they will find themselves in it.I would like to express all my gratitude to Mona Singer who introduced me into the world of feminist science fiction and from there to the fabulous work of Donna Haraway in the first place. More than for her patience, I would like to thank her for profoundly shaping my critical thinking and for constantly reminding me that 'we' are always already in the thick of things. Thank you also for the many meetings and the highly productive discussions we had in the doctoral seminar group.I am deeply grateful to Karen Barad for inviting me as a visiting fellow to the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California at Santa Cruz in the academic year of 2012/2013. Thank you for establishing our small theory group and for introducing me to Magdalena Górska, Bue Thastum, and Elaine Gan -I still miss the discussions we had at campus as well as our inspiring meetings off campus. I would also like to thank Jenny Reardon and Andrew Mathews for welcoming me warmly and for providing me with a workspace at the Science and Justice Research Center as well as my other colleagues at Oakes College for all the stirring debates we had.My profound thanks go to the faculty of the Initiativkolleg "Gender, Violence and Agency in the Era of Globalization" (GIK) at the

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. 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 Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Mapping the Terrain 2 Locating the Technological with/in Rhizomatic Networks 3 Re(con)figuring the Apparatus 4 Cutting Technology and the Body Together-Apart References