Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee, editors

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Chart of Transitions / Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee 1
1. Representation—Simulation—Generation / Rita Raley 33
2. Bourgeois Novel, Realism—Science Fiction, Post-modernism—Visionary Fiction, Cataclysm / Alexis Lothian 41
3. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Radha May (Elisa Giardina-Papa, Nupar Mathur, and Bathsheba Okwenje) 48
4. Organism—Biotic Component / Leon J. Hilton 52
5. Depth, Integrity—Surface, Boundary—Circulation, Residence Time / Eva Hayward and Stefan Helmreich 57
6. Heat—Noise / Ollie Zhang 65
7. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Hi¿ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart 71
8. Biology as Clinical Practice—Biology as Inscription—Biological Transmutation-Adaptation / Kathy High 77
9. Physiology—Communications Engineering / Esther Leslie 83
10. Small Group—Subsystem / Lawrence Lek 90
11. Perfection—Optimization—Absolution / Alexander R. Galloway 99
12. Eugenics—Population Control / Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone 103
13. Decadence, Magic Mountain—Obsolescence, Future Shock—Speculation, Cosmopolis / Bahar Noorizadeh and Bassem Saad 110
14. Hygiene—Stress Management—Procrastination / Mahan Moalemi 118
15. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Larissa Lai 124
16. Microbiology, Tuberculosis—Immunology, AIDS—Epigenetics, Body Burdens / Isadora Neves Marques 130
17. Organic Division of Labor —Ergonomics/Cybernetics of Labor—Inorganic Division of Labor / Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal 136
18. Functional Specialization—Modular Construction—Object Orientation / Jacob Gaboury 146
19. Reproduction—Replication / Luciana Parisi 152
20. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Ashkan Sepahvand 159
21. Organic Sex Role Specialization—Optimal Genetic Strategies / Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Luiza Prado de O. Martins 168
22. Biological Determination—Evolutionary Inertia, Constraints—Future Folklore / Ashley Ferro-Murray and Justin Talplacido Shoulder 176
23. Community Ecology—Ecosystem—Automated Environments / Jennifer Gabrys 182
24. Racial Chain of Being—Neo-imperialism, United Nations Humanism—the More Things Change-the More Things Change / Shaka McGlotten 189
25. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Jian Neo Chen 196
26. Scientific Management in Home/Factory—Global Factory/Electronic Cottage / Ho Rui An 203
27. Family/Market/Factory—Women in the Integrated Circuit—Feminist Corpus of Organismic Art / Caroline A. Jones 211
28. Family Wage—Comparable Worth / Dalida María Benfield 218
29. Public/Private—Cyborg Citizenship / Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez, with contributions from micha cárdenas on behalf of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 226
30. Nature/Culture—Fields of Difference—Composting / Jennifer Mae Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis 232
31. Cooperation—Communications Enhancement—Algorithmic Care / Stephanie Dinkins 241
32. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / madison moore 249
33. Freud—Lacan—Bergson / Homay King 257
34. Sex—Genetic Engineering / Shu Lea Cheang and Matthew Fuller 264
35. Labor—Robotics / Lucy Suchman 270
36. Mind—Artificial Intelligence / Ana Teixeira Pinto 276
37. World War II—Star Wars—War as Big Data / Tung-Hui Hu 282
38. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Thao Phan 288
Afterword: Pandemics of Transformation for Livable Worlds / Donna J. Haraway 295
Epilogue: Interpreting Information / Patricia Reed 297
Bibliography 305
Contributors 335
Index 349