ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a particular moment in German history, around the year 2000, where for the first time arguments were introduced into public discourse in favour of the manipulation of the embryo that before had been a reprobate or abject bio-object. This bio-object profits from contradictory existence of modern binaries; of the clash of individualism and love, of nature and culture, to stabilize itself. The chapter describes the regulation of discursive traits building those discursive formations that enable the disconnect of the embryo from earlier discursive structures that tended to hold it apart from technology, and to reconnect it to discourses that ease and produce what people call its bio-objectification. The bio-object is the fruit-of-love-embryo. It was part of media hype about new reproductive technologies at a very specific, contingent political moment. The IVF-embryo of course plays a major role in this: new reproductive and genetic technologies make hitherto unavailable human nature technologically accessible and productive.
