Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).