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==[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Partial_life/Introduction Introduction]==
==[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Partial_life/Introduction Introduction]==
This Living Book is partially living – it is about the semi-living and partial lives, about tissues without a body. While the biological body cannot survive without organs and cells, the latter two groups can survive in a technological body, which has been removed and separated from their original biological body. They are living fragments of biological bodies, forms of lab-grown life which have been reconfigured, mixed and remixed, reappropriated, recontextualised and instrumentalised. The semi-living thus require a different epistemological and ontological understanding as well as a different consideration and, by extension, a different taxonomy of life. The liminality of this kind of technological approach to life can lead to a form of fetishism -- ''Neolifism''. The semi-living and partial lives are a new class of objects or beings. In most cases they consist of living and non-living materials; of cells and/or tissues from a complex organism which have been grown over, or into, constructed scaffolds and subsequently kept alive with an artificial support. They are both similar and different from other human artefacts (Homo sapiens’ extended phenotype), such as constructed objects and selectively bred domestic plants and animals (both pets and husbandry). These entities are living biological systems which are artificially designed and which, in their isolation, construction, growth and maintenance, need technological intervention. [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Partial_life/Introduction (more...)]  
This Living Book is partially living – it is about the semi-living and partial lives, about tissues without a body. While the biological body cannot survive without organs and cells, the latter two groups can survive in a technological body, which has been removed and separated from their original biological body. They are living fragments of biological bodies, forms of lab-grown life which have been reconfigured, mixed and remixed, reappropriated, recontextualised and instrumentalised. The semi-living thus require a different epistemological and ontological understanding as well as a different consideration and, by extension, a different taxonomy of life. The liminality of this kind of technological approach to life can lead to a form of fetishism -- ''Neolifism''. The semi-living and partial lives are a new class of objects or beings. In most cases they consist of living and non-living materials; of cells and/or tissues from a complex organism which have been grown over, or into, constructed scaffolds and subsequently kept alive with an artificial support. They are both similar and different from other human artefacts (Homo sapiens’ extended phenotype), such as constructed objects and selectively bred domestic plants and animals (both pets and husbandry). These entities are living biological systems which are artificially designed and which, in their isolation, construction, growth and maintenance, need technological intervention. [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Partial_life/Introduction (more...)]  
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== The Historical Perspective on the Semi-Living  ==
== The Historical Perspective on the Semi-Living  ==


=== Precursors of the Semi-Living  ===
=== Precursors of the Semi-Living  ===


[http://www.slpowermuseum.com/equipment/cypher/cyphersManual.pdf Standard of the World Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo N.Y., U.S.A. Annual catalogue, published 1896] <br><br> [http://www.archive.org/details/poultrygrowersgu00cyph Poultry Growers' Guide for 1912, published by Buffalo, Cyphers Incubator Co.] <br><br> Dr Lawrence M. Gartner and Dr Carol B. Gartner<br> [http://www.neonatology.org/classics/nic.nih1985.pdf The Care of Premature Infants: Historical Perspective]
[http://www.slpowermuseum.com/equipment/cypher/cyphersManual.pdf Standard of the World Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo N.Y., U.S.A. Annual catalogue, published 1896]
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[http://www.archive.org/details/poultrygrowersgu00cyph Poultry Growers' Guide for 1912, published by Buffalo, Cyphers Incubator Co.]  
 
Dr Lawrence M. Gartner and Dr Carol B. Gartner<br> [http://www.neonatology.org/classics/nic.nih1985.pdf The Care of Premature Infants: Historical Perspective]
 
=== The History of Tissue Culture  ===
=== The History of Tissue Culture  ===


Alexis Carrel<br> [http://jem.rupress.org/content/15/5/516.full.pdf On the Permanent Life of Tissues Outside of the Organism] <br><br> Alexis Carrel and Montrose T. Burrows<br> [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2125263/pdf/387.pdf Cultivation of Tissues In Vitro and Its Technique] <br><br> Alexis Carrel and Montrose T. Burrows<br> [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2124775/pdf/244.pdf An Addition to the Technique of the Cultivation of Tissues In Vitro] <br><br> Alexis Carrel<br> [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2125069/pdf/287.pdf Contributions to the Study of the Mechanism of the Growth of Connective Tissue] <br><br> J. A. Witkowski<br> [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1082475/pdf/medhist00098-0025.pdf Alexis Carrel and the Mysticism of Tissue Culture]<br><br> Alexis Carrel<br> [http://quantumfieldtheory.org/ALEXIS%20CARREL%20Man%20the%20Unknown%201935.pdf ''Men, the Unknown''] <br><br>
Alexis Carrel
Julian Huxley<br> [http://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/tissue/index.html The Tissue Culture King]
[http://jem.rupress.org/content/15/5/516.full.pdf On the Permanent Life of Tissues Outside of the Organism]  
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Alexis Carrel and Montrose T. Burrows
 
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2125263/pdf/387.pdf Cultivation of Tissues In Vitro and Its Technique]  
 
Alexis Carrel and Montrose T. Burrows
 
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2124775/pdf/244.pdf An Addition to the Technique of the Cultivation of Tissues In Vitro]  
 
Alexis Carrel
 
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2125069/pdf/287.pdf Contributions to the Study of the Mechanism of the Growth of Connective Tissue]
 
J. A. Witkowski
 
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1082475/pdf/medhist00098-0025.pdf Alexis Carrel and the Mysticism of Tissue Culture]
 
Alexis Carrel
 
[http://quantumfieldtheory.org/ALEXIS%20CARREL%20Man%20the%20Unknown%201935.pdf ''Men, the Unknown'']  
 
Julian Huxley
 
[http://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/tissue/index.html The Tissue Culture King]
 
=== The Plasticity of Cell Lines  ===
=== The Plasticity of Cell Lines  ===



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Partial Life and the Semi-Living

edited by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr

Introduction

This Living Book is partially living – it is about the semi-living and partial lives, about tissues without a body. While the biological body cannot survive without organs and cells, the latter two groups can survive in a technological body, which has been removed and separated from their original biological body. They are living fragments of biological bodies, forms of lab-grown life which have been reconfigured, mixed and remixed, reappropriated, recontextualised and instrumentalised. The semi-living thus require a different epistemological and ontological understanding as well as a different consideration and, by extension, a different taxonomy of life. The liminality of this kind of technological approach to life can lead to a form of fetishism -- Neolifism. The semi-living and partial lives are a new class of objects or beings. In most cases they consist of living and non-living materials; of cells and/or tissues from a complex organism which have been grown over, or into, constructed scaffolds and subsequently kept alive with an artificial support. They are both similar and different from other human artefacts (Homo sapiens’ extended phenotype), such as constructed objects and selectively bred domestic plants and animals (both pets and husbandry). These entities are living biological systems which are artificially designed and which, in their isolation, construction, growth and maintenance, need technological intervention. (more...)

The Historical Perspective on the Semi-Living

Precursors of the Semi-Living

Standard of the World Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo N.Y., U.S.A. Annual catalogue, published 1896

Poultry Growers' Guide for 1912, published by Buffalo, Cyphers Incubator Co.

Dr Lawrence M. Gartner and Dr Carol B. Gartner
The Care of Premature Infants: Historical Perspective

The History of Tissue Culture

Alexis Carrel On the Permanent Life of Tissues Outside of the Organism

Alexis Carrel and Montrose T. Burrows

Cultivation of Tissues In Vitro and Its Technique

Alexis Carrel and Montrose T. Burrows

An Addition to the Technique of the Cultivation of Tissues In Vitro

Alexis Carrel

Contributions to the Study of the Mechanism of the Growth of Connective Tissue

J. A. Witkowski

Alexis Carrel and the Mysticism of Tissue Culture

Alexis Carrel

Men, the Unknown

Julian Huxley

The Tissue Culture King

The Plasticity of Cell Lines

About the ATCC-LGC Standards Partnership, which facilitates the distribution of ATCC cultures and bioproducts to life science researchers throughout Europe and India

Stephen J. O'Brien
Cell Culture Forensics

Brendan P. Lucey, Walter A. Nelson-Rees and Grover M. Hutchins
Henrietta Lacks, HeLa Cells, and Cell Culture Contamination

The Technoscientific Body

Mark J. Powers et al.
A Microfabricated Array Bioreactor for Perfused 3D Liver Culture


Jianzhong Xi, Jacob J. Schmidt and Carlo D. Montemagno
Self-Assembled Microdevices Driven by Muscle

Thomas Boland et al.
Cell and Organ Printing 2: Fusion of Cell Aggregates in Three-Dimensional Gels

I. Datar and M. Betti
Possibilities for an In Vitro Meat Production System


P. D. Edelman et al.
In Vitro Cultured Meat Production

Cell Fusion

Cell Fusion

Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells

Jeremy P. Brockes and Anoop Kumar
Appendage Regeneration in Adult Vertebrates and Implications for Regenerative Medicine

Farhan Chowdhury et al.
Soft Substrates Promote Homogeneous Self Renewal of Embryonic Stem Cells via Downregulating Cell-Matrix Tractions

Hannah Landecker
Living Differently in Time: Plasticity, Temporality, and Cellular Biotechnologies

Semi-Living Art

Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
Towards a New Class of Being –The Extended Body

Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
Big Pigs, Small Wings: On Genohype and Artistic Autonomy

Oron Catts, ed.
The Aesthetics of Care

Neolife

The Tissue Culture and Art Project

The Frozen Ark Project 

Attributions