Bovine Regimes : When Animals Become Technologies

This special volume centers on bovines to analyze the circumstances in which the management and understanding of animals are intertwined and merged with technological systems. The geographically diverse historical and anthropological contributions employ temporality as a central lens to examine the changing proximity of animals to technology over time. Collectively, they demonstrate how bovine bodies have been important sites for manifesting the relationship among people, technology, and power structures. Such a relational animal-technology approach ultimately enriches the understanding of both technology and animality. Sex Panic and the Productive Infertility of the Freemartin, is the collaborative contribution by artist Lucy Beech and historian of Science Tamar Novick.