The Good Robot

Sophie Lewis on Techno-Feminisms and Why Nature is Far Stranger Than We Think

August 03, 2022 University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
The Good Robot
Sophie Lewis on Techno-Feminisms and Why Nature is Far Stranger Than We Think
Show Notes

In this episode Sophie, author of Full Surrogacy Now and self-defined wayward Marxist, talks about defining good technology for the whole of the biosphere, why the purity of the human species has always been contaminated by our animal and technological origins, why nature is much, much stranger than we think, what that means for the lambs that are now being grown in artificial wombs, and why technologies like birth control and IVF can never liberate women within the power dynamics of our capitalist present.

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