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Tactical biopolitics : art, activism, and technoscience /
'Tactical Biopolitics' suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorising and reflective practices. The multidisciplinary contributions focus on the political significanc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword : Biological Feedback / Joseph Dumit
- Introduction / Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip
- I. Theory and Practice : Biology as Ideology
- 1. Interview with Richard Lewontin / Interview by Gwen D'Arcangelis, Beatriz da Costa, and Kavita Philip
- 2. Living the Eleventh Thesis / Richard Levins
- 3. Interview with Richard Levins : On Philosophy of Science / Interview by Abha Sur
- II. Life.science.art : Curating the Book of Life
- 4. Biotech Patronage and the Making of Homo DNA / Jacqueline Stevens
- 5. Soft Science : Artists' Experiments in Documentary Storytelling / Rachel Mayeri
- 6. Observations on an Art of Growing Interest : Toward a Phenomenological Approach to Art Involving Biotechnology / Jens Hauser
- III. The Biolab and the Public
- 7. Outfi tting the Laboratory of the Symbolic : Toward a Critical Inventory of Bioart / Claire Pentecost
- 8. The Ethics of Experiential Engagement with the Manipulation of Life / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
- 9. Labs Shut Open : A Biotech Hands-on Workshop for Artists / Oron Catts and Gary Cass
- 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 / Troy Duster
- 11. Discovering Nature, Apparently: Analogy, DNA Imaging, and the Latent Figure Protocol / Paul Vanouse
- 12. The Biopolitics of Human Genetics Research and Its Application / Fatimah Jackson and Sherie McDonald
- 13. In Contradiction Lies the Hope : Human Genome and Identity Politics / Abha Sur and Samir Sur
- V. Gendered Science
- 14. Common Knowledge and Political Love / subRosa
- 15. Producing Transnational Knowledge, Neoliberal Identities, and Technoscientific Practice in India / Kavita Philip
- 16. Genes, Genera, and Genres : The NatureCulture of BioFiction in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation / Karen Cardozo and Banu Subramaniam
- 17. True Life Science Fiction : Sexual Politics and the Lab Procedural / Gwyneth Jones
- VI. Expertise and Amateur Science
- 18. Uncommon Life / Eugene Thacker
- 19. AIDS Activists and People with AIDS : A Movement to Revolutionize Research and for Universal Access to Treatment / Mark Harrington
- 20. The Politics of Rationality : Psychiatric Survivor's Challenge to Psychiatry / E. Gabriella Coleman
- 21. Reaching the Limit : When Art Becomes Science / Beatriz da Costa
- VII. Biosecurity and Bioethics
- 22. From Bioethics to Human Practices, or Assembling Contemporary Equipment / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett
- 23. How Do We Insure Security from Perceived Biological Threats? / Jonathan King
- 24. Bioparanoia and the Culture of Control / Critical Art Ensemble
- 25. Chinese Chickens, Ducks, Pigs, and Humans, and the Technoscientific Discourses of Global U.S. Empire / Gwen D'Arcangelis
- VIII. Interspecies Co-Production
- 26. Training in the Contact Zone : Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility / Donna J. Haraway
- 27. Playing with Rats / Kathy High
- 28. Animal Welfare in the Laboratory : A Case Study in Secular Ethics of Human-Animal Interaction / Larry Carbone.