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What if the terms ""technology"" and ""the body"" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their relationship as far more intimate - technologies as always already embodied, material bodies as always already technologized? What would it mean, then, to understand the relationship between technology and the body as a relation of indeterminacy? Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)political, and economic forces intra-act.

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Josef Barla is a postdoc researcher in the Biotechnology, Nature and Society research group based at Goethe University Frankfurt. He studied Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on questions at the intersection of technology, ecology, (techno-)biopolitics, and care.

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