Impossible, Admirable, Androgyne
Firestone, Technology, and Utopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23211891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Bassett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 85-110 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230109995_5 |
| OpenAlex | W2120331927 |
| ISBN | 9780230109995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
As I write this chapter confirmation drifts in from the radio; forty years on Shulamith Firestone’s hopes for new forms of automated reproduction have not been realized—but neither have they been abandoned. Despite many developments in reproductive technology, they remain, as they were in her time, “almost possible.” On closer listening it turns out that humans would not be the first of the vertebrates to get their act (un)together: Komodo dragons, whose island living easily isolates them, have been doing it for ages. Afterward, the dragon has sex with its progeny and things return to their usual oviparous state. The Radio 4 conclusion is that “nature always finds a way.” For dragons, perhaps; for humans the agency enabling various forms of nonstandard reproduction is likely to be techno-science, a means through which we change our sense of what nature is.
Active listening · Agency (philosophy) · Algorithm · Art history · Biology · Epistemology · Genealogy · Geography · Oviparity · Reproduction · Sociology · State (computer science) · Utopia · Communication · Computer Science · Ecology · History · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Reproductive Health and Technologies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |