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Science and Biocapitalist Reproduction: Commercial Surrogacy in Joanne Ramos’ The Farm
ABSTRACT By reimagining existing so-called surrogacy farms as a luxury surrogacy facility in the United States, Joanne Ramos’ novel The Farm extrapolates both from social realities in the realm of commercial surrogacy and from recent developments in the field of assisted reproductive technology (ART). In doing so, The Farm negotiates the use of reproductive science and technology as biocapitalist instruments of extractivism, and it envisions commercial surrogacy as a form of privatized colonialism which operates according to racist, classist, and heterosexist principles. The novel thus visualizes how the increasing privatization of ART further exacerbates reproductive inequalities, and it demonstrates how the biocapitalist reproduction of the few occurs at the cost of the many. At the same time, the novel’s own formal alignment with the premises of biocapitalism as well as the text’s significant historical and gender gaps undermine its attempt to criticize the substantial inequalities which result from biocapitalist developments in the field of reproduction.
KEYWORDS biocapitalism, capitalist realism, commercial surrogacy, The Farm, science and technology
