1st Edition
The Somatechnics of Life and Death Towards a New Feminist Biopolitics
Introduction: The Somatechnics of Life and Death: Recent Trends in Gender Studies
Elizabeth Stephens and Karin Sellberg
1. (Micro)chimerism, Immunity and Temporality: Rethinking the Ecology of Life and Death
Margrit Shildrick
2. The Queer Temporality of CandidaHomo Biotechnocultures
Tarsh Bates
3. The Logic of Life: Thinking Suicide through Somatechnics
Saartje Tack
4. Disrupting Time: Somatechnics and the Opening of the Interval
Laura Roberts
5. Experimenting with ‘Life’ in Nineteenth-Century Physiology: Brown-Séquard's Method for Characterising Blood
Patrick M. Walsh
6. The ‘Turns’ of Feminist Time: Evolutionary Logic, Life and Renewal in ‘New Materialist’ Feminist Philosophy
Karin Sellberg
7. The Somatechnics of Breath: Trans* Life at this Moment in History: An Interview with Susan Stryker
Elizabeth Stephens and Karin Sellberg
Biography
Elizabeth Stephens is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of three books, most recently Normality: A Critical Genealogy (2017).
Karin Sellberg is Lecturer in Humanities in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia. She has published extensively on feminist discourses of corporeality and time, and has edited two books: Gender & Time (2017) and Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement (2015).
