Tactical biopolitics : art, activism, and technoscience /
Tactical biopolitics : art, activism, and technoscience /
edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip ; foreword by Joseph Dumit.
- Cambridge, MA ; London : MIT Press, 2010.
- XXII, 511 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm cm
- Leonardo .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biological feedback / Introduction / Theory and practice : biology as ideology. Interview with Richard Lewontin / interview by Living the eleventh thesis / Interview with Richard Levins : On philosophy of science / interview by Life.science.art : curating the book of life. Biotech patronage and the making of Homo DNA / Soft science : artists' experiments in documentary storytelling / Observations on an art of growing interest : toward a phenomenological approach to art involving biotechnology / The biolab and the public. Outfitting the laboratory of the symbolic : toward a critical inventory of bioart / The ethics of experiential engagement with the manipulation of life / Labs shut open : a biotech hands-on workshop for artists / Race and the genome. Selective arrests, an ever-expanding DNA forensic database, and the specter of an early twenty-first-century equivalent of phrenology / Discovering nature, apparently: analogy, DNA imaging, and the latent figure protocol / The biopolitics of human genetics research and its application / In contradiction lies the hope : human genome and identity politics / Joseph Dumit ; Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip -- Gwen D'Arcangelis, Beatriz da Costa, and Kavita Philip ; Richard Levins ; Abha Sur -- Jacqueline Stevens ; Rachel Mayeri ; Jens Hauser -- Claire Pentecost ; Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr ; Oron Catts and Gary Cass -- Troy Duster ; Paul Vanouse ; Fatimah Jackson and Sherie McDonald ; Abha Sur and Samir Sur. Foreword : I. II. III. IV. Gendered science. Common knowledge and political love / Producing transnational knowledge, neoliberal identities, and technoscientific practice in India / Genes, genera, and genres : the natureculture of biofiction in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / True life science fiction : sexual politics and the lab procedural / Expertise and amateur science. Uncommon life / Eugene Thacker ; AIDS activists and people with AIDS : a movement to revolutionize research and for universal access to treatment / The politics of rationality : psychiatric survivor's challenge to psychiatry / Reaching the limit : when art becomes science / Biosecurity and bioethics. From bioethics to human practices, or assembling contemporary equipment / How do we insure security from perceived biological threats? / Bioparanoia and the culture of control / Chinese chickens, ducks, pigs, and humans, and the technoscientific discourses of global U.S. empire / Interspecies co-production. Training in the contact zone : power, play, and invention in the sport of agility / Playing with rats / Animal welfare in the laboratory : a case study in secular ethics of human-animal interaction / subRosa ; Kavita Philip ; Karen Cardozo and Banu Subramaniam ; Gwyneth Jones -- Mark Harrington ; E. Gabriella Coleman ; Beatriz da Costa -- Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett ; Jonathan King ; Critical Art Ensemble ; Gwen D'Arcangelis -- Donna J. Haraway ; Kathy High ; Larry Carbone. V. VI. VII. VIII.
'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.
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Biology--Social aspects
Technological innovations--Social aspects
Biotechnology--Social aspects
Biopolitics
Art and science
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biological feedback / Introduction / Theory and practice : biology as ideology. Interview with Richard Lewontin / interview by Living the eleventh thesis / Interview with Richard Levins : On philosophy of science / interview by Life.science.art : curating the book of life. Biotech patronage and the making of Homo DNA / Soft science : artists' experiments in documentary storytelling / Observations on an art of growing interest : toward a phenomenological approach to art involving biotechnology / The biolab and the public. Outfitting the laboratory of the symbolic : toward a critical inventory of bioart / The ethics of experiential engagement with the manipulation of life / Labs shut open : a biotech hands-on workshop for artists / Race and the genome. Selective arrests, an ever-expanding DNA forensic database, and the specter of an early twenty-first-century equivalent of phrenology / Discovering nature, apparently: analogy, DNA imaging, and the latent figure protocol / The biopolitics of human genetics research and its application / In contradiction lies the hope : human genome and identity politics / Joseph Dumit ; Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip -- Gwen D'Arcangelis, Beatriz da Costa, and Kavita Philip ; Richard Levins ; Abha Sur -- Jacqueline Stevens ; Rachel Mayeri ; Jens Hauser -- Claire Pentecost ; Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr ; Oron Catts and Gary Cass -- Troy Duster ; Paul Vanouse ; Fatimah Jackson and Sherie McDonald ; Abha Sur and Samir Sur. Foreword : I. II. III. IV. Gendered science. Common knowledge and political love / Producing transnational knowledge, neoliberal identities, and technoscientific practice in India / Genes, genera, and genres : the natureculture of biofiction in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / True life science fiction : sexual politics and the lab procedural / Expertise and amateur science. Uncommon life / Eugene Thacker ; AIDS activists and people with AIDS : a movement to revolutionize research and for universal access to treatment / The politics of rationality : psychiatric survivor's challenge to psychiatry / Reaching the limit : when art becomes science / Biosecurity and bioethics. From bioethics to human practices, or assembling contemporary equipment / How do we insure security from perceived biological threats? / Bioparanoia and the culture of control / Chinese chickens, ducks, pigs, and humans, and the technoscientific discourses of global U.S. empire / Interspecies co-production. Training in the contact zone : power, play, and invention in the sport of agility / Playing with rats / Animal welfare in the laboratory : a case study in secular ethics of human-animal interaction / subRosa ; Kavita Philip ; Karen Cardozo and Banu Subramaniam ; Gwyneth Jones -- Mark Harrington ; E. Gabriella Coleman ; Beatriz da Costa -- Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett ; Jonathan King ; Critical Art Ensemble ; Gwen D'Arcangelis -- Donna J. Haraway ; Kathy High ; Larry Carbone. V. VI. VII. VIII.
'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.
9780262514910 0262514915
GBB078083 bnb
015588843 Uk
Biology--Social aspects
Technological innovations--Social aspects
Biotechnology--Social aspects
Biopolitics
Art and science