1st Edition
Living Techno-Natures Biohybrid Objects, Life, and Technology
PART I
Machinic Life: Philosophical Perspectives on Bioinspiration
1 A Mouse Out of “Grey Rags and Dust”: Nature Inspiration and Technology Games
Marco Tamborini
2 Sympoietic Machines: Evolutionary Theories and Technology
Christoph Hubatschke
PART II
Re/Generating Life: Biohybrid Approaches and Technological Promises
3 When Life is Made to Work Against Itself: Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Death Labor, and the Mechanization of Death
Josef Barla
4 Fluorescent Disturbance: The Zebrafish as a Biohybrid Sensor in the Hydrosocial Cycle
Julian Koptisch
5 Biohybrid Archives: Ecologies of Memory from Silicon to DNA
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
PART III
Simulating Life: Computing, Ethics, and Boundaries of Artificiality
6 Biohybrid Robotics and the Case for Boundary Ethics
Rafael Mestre and Sergey Astakhov
7 Technical Resistance and Bio-Hybridity: Investigating the Complexities of Making a Robot Human-Like
Hannah Link
8 From Biomimetic Artificial Intelligence to Biohybrid Computing: McCulloch and Pitts, Rosenblatt, and Nowadays Biohybrid Practices
Giulio Amore
Biography
Josef Barla is a postdoctoral researcher in the sociology of science and technology and principal investigator of the German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded research training group Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His research lies at the intersection of biopolitics, ecology, and technology.
Marco Tamborini teaches philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of biology, bioinspired and engineering disciplines (e.g., bionics, biorobotics, synthetic biology, architectural design, embodied AI), philosophical anthropology, philosophy of technology and technoscience, as well as philosophy of culture from the 19th century to the present.
