Format:
1 online resource (535 pages)
ISBN:
9780262271127
Series Statement:
Leonardo Book Ser
Content:
Scientists, scholars, and artists consider the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Foreword: Biological Feedback -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Theory and Practice: Biology as Ideology -- 1. Interview with Richard Lewontin -- 2. Living the Eleventh Thesis -- 3. Interview with Richard Levins: On Philosophy of Science -- II. Life.science.art: Curating the Book of Life -- 4. Biotech Patronage and the Making of Homo DNA -- 5. Soft Science: Artists' Experiments in Documentary Storytelling -- 6. Observations on an Art of Growing Interest: Toward a Phenomenological Approach to Art Involving Biotechnology -- III. The Biolab and the Public -- 7. Outfitting the Laboratory of the Symbolic: Toward a Critical Inventory of Bioart -- 8. The Ethics of Experiential Engagement with the Manipulation of Life -- 9. Labs Shut Open: A Biotech Hands-on Workshop for Artists -- IV. Race and the Genome -- 10. Selective Arrests, an Ever-Expanding DNA Forensic Database, and the Specter of an Early Twenty-First-Century Equivalent of Phrenology -- 11. Discovering Nature, Apparently: Analogy, DNA Imaging, and the Latent Figure Protocol -- 12. The Biopolitics of Human Genetics Research and Its Application -- 13. In Contradiction Lies the Hope: Human Genome and Identity Politics -- V. Gendered Science -- 14. Common Knowledge and Political Love -- 15. Producing Transnational Knowledge, Neoliberal Identities, and Technoscientific Practice in India -- 16. Genes, Genera, and Genres: The Nature Culture of BioFiction in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation -- 17. True Life Science Fiction: Sexual Politics and the Lab Procedural -- VI. Expertise and Amateur Science -- 18. Uncommon Life -- 19. AIDS Activists and People with AIDS: A Movement to Revolutionize Research and for Universal Access to Treatment -- 20. The Politics of Rationality: Psychiatric Survivor's Challenge to Psychiatry.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262042499
Additional Edition:
Print version Tactical biopolitics
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tactical biopolitics Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, 2008 ISBN 9780262042499
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0262042495
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Biotechnologie
;
Biopolitik
;
Bioethik
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Author information:
Lewontin, Richard C. 1929-2021
Author information:
Thacker, Eugene
Author information:
Rabinow, Paul 1944-2021
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