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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. Bits of Life assumes a posthuman definition of
the body. It is grounded in questions about today's biocultures,
which pertain neither to humanist bodily integrity nor to the
anthropological assumption that human bodies are the only ones that
matter. Editors Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke aid in mapping changes
and transformations and in striking a middle road between the
metaphor and the material. In exploring current reconfigurations of
bodies and embodied subjects, the contributors pursue a
technophilic, yet critical, path while articulating new and
thoroughly appraised ethical standards.
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. Bits of Life assumes a posthuman definition of
the body. It is grounded in questions about today's biocultures,
which pertain neither to humanist bodily integrity nor to the
anthropological assumption that human bodies are the only ones that
matter. Editors Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke aid in mapping changes
and transformations and in striking a middle road between the
metaphor and the material. In exploring current reconfigurations of
bodies and embodied subjects, the contributors pursue a
technophilic, yet critical, path while articulating new and
thoroughly appraised ethical standards.
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