Three-dimensional ‘bioprinting’ is under development, which may produce living human organs and tissues to be surgically implanted in patients. Like tissue engineering and regenerative medicine generally, the process of bioprinting potentially disrupts experience of the human body by redefining understandings of, and becoming actualised in new practices and regimes in relation to, the body. The authors consider how these novel sociotechnical imaginaries may emerge, having regard to law’s contribution to, as well as its possible transformation by, the process of 3D bioprinting. The authors draw on Gilbert Simondon and corporeal, material feminists to account for these disruptions as ‘ontogenetic,’ in the sense that technology can produce new ontologies or beings. The authors focus namely on ontogenesis, individuation and the pre-individual forces that comprise, and yet remain inexhausted by, the process of 3D bioprinting. The authors argue legal phenomena are pre-individual forces that ‘in-form’ ontogenesis. These pre-individual forces are indistinguishable from those implicated in the individuation of the body’s physical form; thereby, the individuation of the bodily material through 3D bioprinting may be expressive and generative of sociolegal phenomena, at least as those relate to the body. The authors conclude that 3D bioprinting shores up conventional, liberal conceptions in law of the human body as individual, bounded and primarily contractual. Three-dimensional bioprinting may introduce ontological difference to the extent it promises and realises a new temporality of the human as a species- and legal-subject, although such a development would only seem to expand, rather than attenuate, a biopolitical regime.

三维“生物打印”正在开发中，它可能会产生活的人体器官和组织，以便通过手术植入患者体内。与一般的组织工程和再生医学一样，生物打印过程可能会通过重新定义对身体的理解并在与身体相关的新实践和制度中实现，从而破坏人体的体验。作者考虑了这些新的社会技术想象如何出现，考虑到法律对 3D 生物打印过程的贡献及其可能的转变。作者利用 Gilbert Simondon 和有形的物质女权主义者将这些破坏解释为“本体论”，即技术可以产生新的本体论或存在。作者专注于个体发生，个体化和个体化前的力量构成了 3D 生物打印过程，但仍不竭力。作者认为，法律现象是“形成”个体发生的前个体力量。这些前个体的力量与那些牵涉到身体物理形态个体化的力量没有区别。因此，通过 3D 生物打印对身体材料的个性化可能是社会法律现象的表现和生成，至少与身体有关的那些现象如此。作者得出的结论是，3D 生物打印支持传统的、自由的人体法概念，即个体的、有界的和主要是契约的。三维生物打印可能会在一定程度上引入本体论差异，它承诺并实现人类作为物种和法律主体的新时间性，