Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Analysis: Synthesis
Interlude 1: Plastic Fantastic
1. Life by Design: Evolution and Creation Tales in Synthetic Biology
Interlude 2: From Still Life to More Intense Life
2. The Synthetic Kingdom: Transgenic Kinship in the Postgenomic Era
Interlude 3: "To Make an Eye, a Hair, a Leaf"
3. The Rebirth of the Author: New Life in Legal and Economic Circuits
Interlude 4: Much More than Human
4. Biotechnical Agnosticism: Fragmented Life and Labor among the Machines
Interlude 5: What Comes Before
5. Life Makes Itself at Home: The Rise of Biohacking as Political Action
Interlude 6: Life Embryonic and Prophetic
6. Latter-Day Lazarus: Biological Salvage and Species Revival
Conclusion
Appendix: A Note on Method
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index