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<p>This article theorizes the condition of hosted life within the biotech womb, framing it through the logic of chrono-proprietism—a regime where time is privatized and futurity is secured as a speculative asset for the affluent. I analyze the EctoLife concept video as a design fiction that discloses the management of hosted life under a Postdigital biotech imaginary. I argue that EctoLife’s biotech&#xa0;womb operates as a necropurificatory apparatus, extending colonial and theological fantasies of purifying life from the mess of decay, history, and the gestating body. Yet, within this violent fantasy lies a critical provocation: EctoLife’s vision of synthetic gestation forces a confrontation with hosted life as a streamlined process of purified becoming; biologically perfected, AI overseen, economically optimized, and digitally platformed. I trace how this Postdigital vitalism, governed by chrono-proprietism, might trouble certain feminist commitments to relationality and redemption. In response, I advance a Postdigital feminist ethics that refuses the promise of relational salvation, instead attending to the estrangement, asymmetry, and radical refusal that an era of hosted life demands.</p>

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The Biotech Womb and the Necropolitics of Purity: Social Reproduction, Racial Capitalism, and the Control of Futurity in Times of Hosted Life

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    2026年1月21日

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  • Petra Mikulan

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This article theorizes the condition of hosted life within the biotech womb, framing it through the logic of chrono-proprietism—a regime where time is privatized and futurity is secured as a speculative asset for the affluent. I analyze the EctoLife concept video as a design fiction that discloses the management of hosted life under a Postdigital biotech imaginary. I argue that EctoLife’s biotech womb operates as a necropurificatory apparatus, extending colonial and theological fantasies of purifying life from the mess of decay, history, and the gestating body. Yet, within this violent fantasy lies a critical provocation: EctoLife’s vision of synthetic gestation forces a confrontation with hosted life as a streamlined process of purified becoming; biologically perfected, AI overseen, economically optimized, and digitally platformed. I trace how this Postdigital vitalism, governed by chrono-proprietism, might trouble certain feminist commitments to relationality and redemption. In response, I advance a Postdigital feminist ethics that refuses the promise of relational salvation, instead attending to the estrangement, asymmetry, and radical refusal that an era of hosted life demands.