Technology takes an unprecedented position in contemporary society. In particular, it has become part and parcel of governmental attempts to manufacture life in new ways. Such ideas concerning the (self-)governance of life organize around the same contention: that technology and life are, in fact, highly interconnectable. This is surprising because if one enters the sites of techno-scientific experimentation, those visions turn out to be much frailer and by no means “in place” yet. Rather, they afford or enforce constant interfacing work, a particular mode of manufacturing life, rendering disparate, sturdy, and often surprisingly incompatible things available for one another. Here, we contend that both of those aspects, pervasive rationalities of interconnectability and practices of interfacing mark the cornerstones of what we call a new(ly articulated) techno-bio-politics of life. In order to grasp the government of life under the technological condition, we must understand how both human and non-human entities are being rendered interconnectable and re-worked through practices of interfacing. We take neuro-technology and care robotics as two illustrative cases. Our analysis shows that the contemporary government of life is not primarily concerned with life itself in its biological re-constitution but rather with life as it is interfaced with and through technology.

技术在当代社会中占据了前所未有的地位。特别是，它已成为政府以新方式制造生命的尝试的一部分。这些关于生活（自我）治理的想法围绕着同样的论点组织起来：技术和生活实际上是高度相互关联的。这是令人惊讶的，因为如果一个人进入技术科学实验的场所，这些愿景会变得更加脆弱，而且还没有“到位”。相反，它们提供或强制执行持续的接口工作，一种制造生活的特殊模式，使彼此可以使用不同的、坚固的、而且常常令人惊讶地不相容的东西。在这里，我们认为这两个方面，即普遍存在的互联性理性和交互实践标志着我们所谓的新的（明确表达的）生活技术-生物政治的基石。为了掌握技术条件下的生命治理，我们必须了解人类和非人类实体如何通过交互实践变得相互关联和重新工作. 我们将神经技术和护理机器人作为两个说明性案例。我们的分析表明，当代生命治理主要关注的不是生命本身的生物重构，而是生命与技术的交互和通过技术。