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The cyborgization of brainbodies with computer hardware and software today ranges in scope from the realization of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) to visions of mind upload to silicon, the latter being targeted toward a transhuman future. Refining posthumanist concepts to formulate a posthumanities perspective, and contrasting those approaches with transhumanist trajectories, I explore the intersectional dimension of realizations and visions of neuro-technological developments, which I name TechnoBrainBodies-in-Cultures. In an intersectional analysis, I investigate the embedding and legitimation of transhumanist visions brought about by neuroscientific research and neuro-technological development based on a concept of modern neurobiological determinism. The conjoined trajectories of BCI research and development and transhumanist visions perpetuate the inscription of intersectional norms, with the concomitant danger of producing discriminatory effects. This culminates in normative capacity being seen as a conflation of the abled, successful, white masculinized techno-brain with competition. My deeper analysis, however, also enables displacements within recent BCI research and development to be characterized: from ''thought-translation to affective conditioning and from controllability to obstinacy within the BCI, going so far as to open the closed loop. These realizations challenge notions about the BCI's actor status and agency and foster questions about shifts in the corresponding subject-object relations. Based on these analyses, I look at the effects of neuro-technological and transhumanist governmentality on the question of whose lives are to be improved and whose lives should be excluded from these developments. Within the framework of political feminist materialisms, I combine the concept of posthumanities with my concept of TechnoBrainBodies-in-Cultures to envision and discuss a material-discursive strategy, encompassing dimensions of affect, sociality, resistance, compassion, cultural diversity, ethnic diversity, multiple sexes/sexualities, aging, dis/abilities-in short, all of this intersectional stuff-as well as obstinate techno-brain agencies and contumacies foreseen in these cyborgian futures.

The cyborgization of brainbodies with computer hardware and software today ranges in scope from the realization of Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs) to visions of mind upload to silicon, the latter being targeted toward a transhuman future. Refining posthumanist concepts to formulate a posthumanities perspective, and contrasting those approaches with transhumanist trajectories, I explore the intersectional dimension of realizations and visions of neuro-technological developments, which I name TechnoBrainBodies-in-Cultures. In an intersectional analysis, I investigate the embedding and legitimation of transhumanist visions brought about by neuroscientific research and neuro-technological development based on a concept of modern neurobiological determinism. The conjoined trajectories of BCI research and development and transhumanist visions perpetuate the inscription of intersectional norms, with the concomitant danger of producing discriminatory effects. This culminates in normative capacity being seen as a conflation of the abled, successful, white masculinized techno-brain with competition. My deeper analysis, however, also enables displacements within recent BCI research and development to be characterized: from ''thought-translation" to affective conditioning and from controllability to obstinacy within the BCI, going so far as to open the closed loop. These realizations challenge notions about the BCI's actor status and agency and foster questions about shifts in the corresponding subject–object relations. Based on these analyses, I look at the effects of neuro-technological and transhumanist governmentality on the question of whose lives are to be improved and whose lives should be excluded from these developments. Within the framework of political feminist materialisms, I combine the concept of posthumanities with my concept of TechnoBrainBodies-in-Cultures to envision and discuss a material-discursive strategy, encompassing dimensions of affect, sociality, resistance, compassion, cultural diversity, ethnic ...

Die Geschlechterforschung in den Technik- und Naturwissenschaften versucht Geschlechtergrenzen aufzulösen und Dichotomien zu dekonstruieren, wird jedoch auf Schritt und Tritt mit der Ungleichheit der Geschlechter konfrontiert. Indessen hat sich auch hier eine kritische Geschlechterforschung entwickelt, die die Situation von Frauen, die Geschlechterkonstruktionen und die methodisch-epistemologischen Vorgehensweisen analysiert. Die hier angekündigte Publikation bietet Einblicke in die theoretischen Grundlagen und aktuellen Diskussionen der Gender Studies in den Technik- und Naturwissenschaften mit dem Ziel, den Dialog mit den Gesellschaftswissenschaften zu fördern. Die Autorinnen liefern eine Reihe von Beispielen, von der konstruktiven Veränderung von IT-Produkten beim E-Learning bis hin zur spannenden Frage der Wirkmacht >neuer< Körperbilder in der digitalen Bildkultur

Gender Studies beteiligen sich an Digitalisierung und werden durch sie heraus gefordert: Was macht Digitalisierung mit den Gender Studies? Und umgekehrt was machen Gender Studies mit Digitalisierung? Während einige Akteur*innen der Gender Studies sich bereits seit geraumer Zeit mit den Möglichkeiten digitaler Angebote auseinandersetzen, sammeln andere zwangsweise anlässlich der Corona-Pandemie Erfahrungen mit der digitalen Lehre. Dieses Positionenportfolio möchte einen Raum eröffnen, um die gegenwärtigen Entwicklungen
vielstimmig zu reflektieren. Wir haben dazu eine Reihe von Akteur*innen der Gender Studies eingeladen, ihre Perspektiven auf digitale Gender Studies darzulegen, ihre digitalen Angebote rund um die Lehre vorzustellen und deren Rahmenbedingungen zu thematisieren. Herausgekommen ist eine Reihe von Positionspapieren, die die Potenziale und Grenzen digitaler Angebote und Lehre ausleuchten.

The following dialogue between two biologists and Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars, Banu Subramaniam and Sigrid Schmitz, took place on June 16th, 2016 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. Banu Subramaniam gave a talk on "Interdisciplinary Hauntings: The Ghostly Words of Naturecultures." Afterwards both researchers discussed the linkages between feminist science studies, postcolonial perspectives, and eco-diversity discourses.

Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at the Goldsmith College, University of London. With her books "The Cultural Politcs of Emotion" and "The Promise of Happiness", she had a strong influence on feminist and queer discourses in affect studies. Sigrid Schmitz had a conversation with her about the different facets and framings of the terms 'emotion' and 'affect', and about the relations between bodies and sensations. The following dialogue addresses the ambiguity of meanings and wordings in the affect discourse and the use of 'feminist killjoys' in feminist debates and political activism.