Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World (The MIT Press)

Synopsis

The Social, Political, And Cultural Consequences Of Attempts To Cheat Death By Freezing Life. Introduction : The Politics Of Low Temperature / Joanna Radin & Emma Kowal -- A Cryopolitics To Reclaim Our Frozen Material States / Michael Bravo -- The Rise Of Cryopower : Biopolitics In The Age Of Cryogenic Life / Alexander Friedrich -- Ode To The Ice Bucket / Soraya De Chadarevian -- Nature And The Refrigerating Machine : The Politics And Production Of Cold In The Nineteenth Century / Rebecca Woods -- Stockpiling As A Technique Of Preparedness : Conserving The Past For An Unpredictable Future / Frédéric Keck -- Reflections On The Zone Of The Incomplete / Deborah Bird Rose -- Out Of The Glacier Into The Freezer : Ötzi The Iceman's Disruptive Timings, Spacings, And Mobilities / David Turnbull. Beyond The Life/not Life Binary : A Feminist-indigenous Reading Of Cryopreservation, Interspecies Thinking And The New Materialisms / Kim Tallbear -- Suspense : Cryopolitics Of The Body / Klaus Hoeyer -- The Freezer Program : Value After Life / Jonny Bunning -- The Frozen Archive, Or Defrosting Derrida / Warwick Anderson -- Banking The Forest : Loss, Hope And Care In Hawaiian Conservation / Thom Van Dooren -- Freezing The Ark : The Cryopolitics Of Endangered Species Preservation / Matthew Chrulew -- The Utopia For The Golden Frog Of Panama / Eben Kirksey -- The Cryopolitics Of Survival From The Cold War To The Present : A Fugue / Charis Thompson -- Index. Edited By Joanna Radin And Emma Kowal. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.