Biopolitics and Utopia: An Interdisciplinary Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
American Bodies in a Time of War: The Militarized Body as a Utopian Space and Biopolitical Project for the State....Pages 13-40
“Abnormals” or “Exceptions”: The Use of Technologies for Intersex People and People with Disabilities....Pages 41-61
The Inauspicious Regulatory Beginnings of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis....Pages 63-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Utopian Visions of “Making People”: Science Fiction and Debates on Cloning, Ectogenesis, Genetic Engineering, and Genetic Discrimination....Pages 89-117
Decolonizing the Future: Biopolitics, Ethics, and Foresight through the Lens of Science Fiction....Pages 119-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
“All Day, All Week, Occupy Wall Street!”: Space, Biopower, and Resistance....Pages 141-166
Eating for the Future: Veganism and the Challenge of In Vitro Meat....Pages 167-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Utopia and Biopolitics: The Need for an Ethics in Biotechnology....Pages 193-201
Back Matter....Pages 203-210