The Banana Peel Project

I’ve finally updated my books page with a review/analysis of Charis Thompson’s fascinating study of assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs). Her 2005 book, Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies contains some incredible insights into the nature of technology and human subjectivity, and amazingly (for a student like me) some really cool ideas about what it means to do feminist science and technology studies. Check it out!

I write:

What Making Parents offers us is both a vision of one incarnation of this posthumanity—the one constructed in and through ARTs—and a pair of tools with which to trace the associations between ARTs and their corresponding subjects. In effect, Thompson offers us a picture of posthumanism from the point of view of the deconstructed subject through its experience of space and time. To reveal the contours of this subject, Thompson makes an empirical argument about metaphysics: a methodical, observational exploration of real objects and real people that nevertheless uncovers some fundamental truths about human values and experience.

Read the rest here.