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2022

Journal Article

The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’

Stephens, Elizabeth (2022). The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’. Cultural Studies, 37 (1), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2042580

The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’

2021

Journal Article

Normality: A collection of essays

Cryle, Peter and Stephens, Elizabeth (2021). Normality: A collection of essays. History of the Human Sciences, 34 (2), 3-8. doi: 10.1177/0952695120984074

Normality: A collection of essays

2021

Book Chapter

Re-Imagining the “birthing machine:” art and anatomy in obstetric and anatomical models made by women

Stephens, Elizabeth (2021). Re-Imagining the “birthing machine:” art and anatomy in obstetric and anatomical models made by women. Anatomy of the medical image: knowledge production and transfiguration from the Renaissance to today. (pp. 74-94) edited by Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004445017_005

Re-Imagining the “birthing machine:” art and anatomy in obstetric and anatomical models made by women

2020

Journal Article

Speculative biology: precarious life in art and science resurrection projects

Stephens, Elizabeth (2020). Speculative biology: precarious life in art and science resurrection projects. Continuum, 34 (6), 870-886. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1842128

Speculative biology: precarious life in art and science resurrection projects

2020

Journal Article

Post-normal: crisis and the end of the ordinary

Stephens, Elizabeth (2020). Post-normal: crisis and the end of the ordinary. Media International Australia, 177 (1), 92-102. doi: 10.1177/1329878x20958151

Post-normal: crisis and the end of the ordinary

2017

Book

Normality: a critical genealogy

Stephens, Elizabeth and Cryle, Peter (2017). Normality: a critical genealogy. Chicago, IL, United States: University of Chicago Press. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226484198.001.0001

Normality: a critical genealogy

2015

Journal Article

Bad feelings: an affective genealogy of feminism

Stephens, Elizabeth (2015). Bad feelings: an affective genealogy of feminism. Australian Feminist Studies, 30 (85), 273-282. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2015.1113907

Bad feelings: an affective genealogy of feminism

2011

Book

Anatomy as spectacle: Public exhibitions of the body from 1700 to the present

Stephens, Elizabeth (2011). Anatomy as spectacle: Public exhibitions of the body from 1700 to the present. Liverpool, United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press.

Anatomy as spectacle: Public exhibitions of the body from 1700 to the present

2026

Book Chapter

Masculinity as masquerade: gay macho in the novels of Jean Genet

Stephens, Elizabeth (2026). Masculinity as masquerade: gay macho in the novels of Jean Genet. Cruising pavilion: architecture, dissident sex and cruising cultures. (pp. 171-179) edited by Pierre-Alexandre Matteos and Charles Teyssou. Leipzig, Germany: Spector Books.

Masculinity as masquerade: gay macho in the novels of Jean Genet

2026

Book

Automation culture: intersections between art, automation, and living systems

Oron Catts, Sarah Collins, Elizabeth Stephens and Ionat Zurr eds. (2026). Automation culture: intersections between art, automation, and living systems. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

Automation culture: intersections between art, automation, and living systems

2026

Book Chapter

The forgotten history of the phonoscope: bodies and the limits of automation

Stephens, Elizabeth (2026). The forgotten history of the phonoscope: bodies and the limits of automation. Automation culture: intersections between art, automation, and living systems. (pp. 182-207) edited by Oron Catts, Sarah Collins, Elizabeth Stephens and Ionat Zurr. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

The forgotten history of the phonoscope: bodies and the limits of automation

2026

Book

Artificial life

Catts, Oron, Collins, Sarah, Stephens, Elizabeth and Zurr, Ionat (2026). Artificial life. Perth, WA, Australia: UWA Press.

Artificial life

2025

Journal Article

Uterus as interface: reimagining artificial wombs in Marian Sandberg's Remote

Stephens, Elizabeth (2025). Uterus as interface: reimagining artificial wombs in Marian Sandberg's Remote. Artlink, 45 (3), 40-43. doi: 10.3316/informit.T2025120300009602104739092

Uterus as interface: reimagining artificial wombs in Marian Sandberg's Remote

2025

Journal Article

Eleanor Crook’s Santa Medicina: an anatomical allegory in bronze and wax

Elizabeth Stephens (2025). Eleanor Crook’s Santa Medicina: an anatomical allegory in bronze and wax. Physis, 40 (2), 533-547.

Eleanor Crook’s Santa Medicina: an anatomical allegory in bronze and wax

2025

Conference Publication

Platiglomerate life

Stephens, Elizabeth (2025). Platiglomerate life. CSAA, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 25-28 November 2025.

Platiglomerate life

2025

Conference Publication

"Noisy experiments: infant incubator exhibitions in the American amusement park"

Stephens, Elizabeth (2025). "Noisy experiments: infant incubator exhibitions in the American amusement park". Signal and Noise: AuSTS annual conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 9-11 July 2025.

"Noisy experiments: infant incubator exhibitions in the American amusement park"

2025

Conference Publication

Making the experimental body: Claude Bernard and the genealogy of experimentation

Stephens, Elizabeth (2025). Making the experimental body: Claude Bernard and the genealogy of experimentation. European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, Paris, France, 1-5 July 2025.

Making the experimental body: Claude Bernard and the genealogy of experimentation

2024

Conference Publication

"When monsters speak": gender and feminist studies in Australia

Stephens, Elizabeth (2024). "When monsters speak": gender and feminist studies in Australia. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, North Ryde, NSW Australia, 25-29 November 2024.

"When monsters speak": gender and feminist studies in Australia

2024

Journal Article

Efficiency and the productive body: the Gilbreths’ photographic motion studies of work

Stephens, Elizabeth (2024). Efficiency and the productive body: the Gilbreths’ photographic motion studies of work. Body & Society, 30 (3), 59-94. doi: 10.1177/1357034x241262176

Efficiency and the productive body: the Gilbreths’ photographic motion studies of work

2024

Conference Publication

Ectogenic desire: stories of placentas, mothers, and machines from the past, present, and future

Stephens, Elizabeth (2024). Ectogenic desire: stories of placentas, mothers, and machines from the past, present, and future. ISEA 2024, Virtual/Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 24-27 June 2024.

Ectogenic desire: stories of placentas, mothers, and machines from the past, present, and future