ABSTRACT
Nature/culture is moving at the interface of bodies and machines. Investments in contemporary technoscience concentrate their sights on the fields of medicine, pressing for elaboration and more intimate entanglements of bio and techno. Medical interventions make evident the contingencies of the otherwise taken for granted as singular, and unambiguously bounded, body. Medical simulators, in Ericka Johnson's phrasing, recreate practice-specific knowledge and methods of intervention. Feminist science and technology studies (STS) in particular has a deep and ongoing commitment to the project of tracing how bodies are figured in technoscience, and medicine is among the most consequential arenas in which those figurations come to matter. The simulator operates as part of an apparatus in the Baradian sense, an arrangement through which medical practitioners, instruments and patient bodies are articulated and made agentially real. The body interface is reconfigured from a static place to something performed in time, in the ontological choreographies through which bodies and technologies are both differentiated and aligned.
