Charis Thompson

In Making Parents, The ontological choreography of reproductive technology, Charis Thompson talks about Fetal surgery - operating on the fetus while it is still in the womb. This turns the mother and her unborn child into quasi subjects and quasi objects. They're both agents in the same way that agents are in actor network theory, but the mother can be treated as a subject of biomedical intervention but that the same way she's giving permission to preform those operations. That at any time we can be both subjects and objects in institutions that are more powerful than us and have control over us, yet we always have a certain amount of transformative opportunity that we can actualize inside these systems.