Introduction analysis: synthesis
Interlude 1: Plastic fantastic
Life by design: evolution and creation tales in synthetic biology
Interlude 2: from still life to more intense life
The synthetic kingdom: transgenic kinship in the postgenomic era
Interlude 3: To make an eye, a hair, a leaf
The rebirth of the author: new life in legal and economic circuits
Interlude 4: much more than human
Biotechnical agnosticism: fragmented life and labor among the machines
Interlude 5: what comes before
Life makes itself at home: the rise of biohacking as political action
Interlude 6: life embryonic and prophetic
Latter-day Lazarus: biological salvage and species revival.