Sakari Tamminen, Eric Deibel

Recoding Life (eBook, ePUB)

Information and the Biopolitical

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucault' biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. The authors argue that through discussions of political theories of sovereignty and related geopolitical conceptions of nature and society, we can understand how crucially important it is that life is constantly unsettling and disrupting the established and familiar ordering of the material world and the related ways of thinking and acting politically. As such, the book will appeal to scholars of science and technology studies, as well as scholars of the sociology, philosophy and anthropology of science, who are seeking to understand social and technical heterogeneity as a characteristic of the life sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315399201
• Artikelnr.: 56889777

Autorenporträt

Sakari Tamminen is an Adjunct Professor of Science and Technology Studies (Anthropology of Science and Technology) at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and co-editor of Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century.

Eric Deibel is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biotechnology at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and lectures STS to engineering students at Bilkent University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical
2. Rethinking the Biopolitical
3. Read, Write, Standardise
4. Crossing Boundaries: The Global Politics of Access and Plants as Species
of Life(TM)
5. Animal Genetic Resources as A Global Matter of Concern
6. Recoding Synthetic Life : From Openness to (Free as in) Freedom
7. Rethinking the Age of Biology: Biomass, Biohacking, and Open Source
Seeds
8. The Re-Articulation of Biopolitical Theory in an Era of Informatics