5. The Lure of Immateriality in Accounts of Development and Evolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Mattering. Feminism, Science, and Corporeal Politics 1
5. Part I. Probing New Theories of Matter
6. 1. Matter in the Shadows 23
7. 2. New Material Feminisms and Historical Materialism 43
8. 3. On the Politics of “New Feminist Materialisms” 58
9. 4. Nonlinear Evolution, Sexual Difference, and the Ontological Turn 73
10. Part II. Nature/Culture in the Twenty-First Century Sciences Part III Biopolitics and Necropolitics
11. 5. The Lure of Immateriality in Accounts of Development and Evolution 91
12. 6. Embodying Intersectionality 104
13. 7. Sex/Gender Matters and Sex/Gender Materialities in the Brain 122
14. 8. The Communicative Phenomenon of Brain-Computer Interfaces 140
15. Part III. Biopolitics and Necropolitics
16. 9. Technologies of Failure, Bodies of Resistance 159
17. 10. The Enactment of Intention and Exception through Poisoned Corpses and Toxic Bodies 173
18. 11. Neurofeminism 188
19. 12. Female Bodily (Re)Productivity in the Stem Cell Economy 204
20. 13. Prisons Matter 224
21. Part IV. New Materialism and Research Practices
22. 14. Urban Api-Ethnography 245
23. 15. Un/Re-Making Method 258
24. 16. Experimental Subjects Kick Back 284
25. About the Contributors 301
26. Index 307