Suspended Life: Exploring Cryopreservation Practices in Contemporary Societies

Project Information

CRYOSOCIETIES

Grant agreement ID: 788196

DOI 10.3030/788196

EC signature date 19 July 2018

Start date 1 April 2019

End date 31 March 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 497 587,00

EU contribution € 2 497 587,00

Coordinated by

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Welcome to Whenever: Exploring Suspended Life in Cryopreservation Practices:

Author(s): Thomas Lemke
Published in: Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2021, Page(s) 700 - 726, ISSN 0162-2439
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/01622439211057860

Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality

Author(s): Thomas Lemke
Published in: Theory, Culture & Society, 2022, ISSN 0263-2764
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/02632764221113737

Cryovalues beyond High Expectations: Endurance and the Construction of Value in Cord Blood Banking

Author(s): Ruzana Liburkina
Published in: Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2022, Page(s) 777 - 804, ISSN 0162-2439
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/01622439221108229

On (global) care chains in times of crisis: egg donation and domestic work in Spain

Author(s): Sara Lafuente-Funes, Amaia Pérez Orozco
Published in: Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2020, ISSN 2572-9861
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2020.1796326

The Role of Vitrification in Spanish Reproductive Labs: A Cryo-revolution Led by Strategic Freezing

Author(s): Sara Lafuente-Funes
Published in: Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2023, Page(s) 752 - 776, ISSN 0162-2439
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/01622439231155649

Making Futures by Freezing Life: Ambivalent Temporalities of Cryopreservation Practices

Author(s): Veit Braun; Sara Lafuente-Funes; Thomas Lemke; Ruzana Liburkina
Published in: Science, Technology, & Human Values, Issue Volume 48, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 693–699, ISSN 1552-8251
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/01622439231170557

Other (3)

Aufgeschobenes Leben

Author(s): Thomas Lemke, Ruzana Liburkina, Veit Braun, Sara Lafuente-Funes
Published in: GiD - Gen-ethischer Informationsdienst, Issue 253, 2020, Page(s) 34-35
Publisher: Gen-ethisches Netzwerk e.V.

Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging. Lucy van de Wiel, New York: NYU Press, 2020, 344 pp.

Author(s): Sara Lafuente-Funes, Laura Perler
Published in: Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2021
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12671

Investigating Cryopreservation Practices in Contemporary Societies: A New ERC Project

Author(s): Veit Braun, Sara Lafuente-Funes, Thomas Lemke, Ruzana Liburkina
Published in: EASST Review, Issue 39, 2020
Publisher: EASST

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Review of “Nicole C. Karafyllis (Hg.), Theorien der Lebendsammlung. Pflanzen, Mikroben und Tiere als Biofakte in Genbanken (Lebenswissenschaften im Dialog, Bd. 25)

Author(s): Veit Braun
Published in: Technikgeschichte, Issue 87, 2020, Page(s) 5-6, ISSN 0040-117X
Publisher: Kiepert

Beyond Life and Death. Investigating Cryopreservation Practices in Contemporary Societies

Author(s): Thomas Lemke
Published in: Soziologie, Issue 48, 2019, Page(s) 450-466, ISSN 0340-918X
Publisher: Campus Verlag

Cryopreserving the present? The climate crisis and the emergence of a politics of suspension

Author(s): Thomas Lemke
Published in: Studia Krytyczne / Critical Studies, Issue 10, 2021, Page(s) 55–62, ISSN 2450-9078
Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski

Book chapters (1)

Going Further: Lebensformen, Politics, and Critique

Author(s): Thomas Lemke
Published in: The Value of Critique. Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour, 2019, Page(s) 120-125, ISBN 9783593510101
Publisher: Campus Verlag

Conference proceedings (2)

Dynamiken des Stillstands: Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive auf kryobiologische Anwendungen

Author(s): Ruzana Liburkina, Thomas Lemke, Veit Braun, Sara Lafuente-Funes
Published in: 46th Annual Meeting of the Deutscher Kaelte und Klimatechnischer Verein 2020: Deutsche Kaelte-und Klimatagung 2020 Proceedings, Issue Vol. 1, 2021, Page(s) 60-67, ISBN 978-1-7138-2423-7
Publisher: Deutscher Kälte- und Klimatechnischer Verein
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/hrzk6

Biopolitik revisited. Ein neues Regime der Kryopolitik.

Author(s): Thomas Lemke
Published in: Polarisierte Welten. Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2022., 2023
Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie