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Zur Medialität der Samenbank, oder: die Nacht der Substanz

Author(s): Karafyllis, Nicole C.

Abstract

A modern sperm bank can actually be described by using media terms such as ›stock‹ or ›infrastructure‹. However, the mediality of sperm seems to be persistently lingering in a blind spot, its vitality artificially prolonged in the dark of the cooling chamber. This article discusses different variants to treat the problem of describing the teleology of nature with the help of media terms and offers a new take on the story of ›the birds and the bees‹. The argumentation stresses the importance of sperm as the very quintessence of a non-reducible substance whose latency as a medial a priori of life thus becomes palpable.

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Karafyllis, Nicole C.: Zur Medialität der Samenbank, oder: die Nacht der Substanz. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 10 (2019), Nr. 1, S. 39-61. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18723.
@ARTICLE{Karafyllis2019,
 author = {Karafyllis, Nicole C.},
 title = {Zur Medialität der Samenbank, oder: die Nacht der Substanz},
 year = 2019,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18723}",
 volume = 10,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 1,
 pages = {39--61},
}
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