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Tactical biopolitics : art, activism, and technoscience / edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip ; foreword by Joseph Dumit.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : Biological feedback / Joseph Dumit ; Introduction / Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip -- I. Theory and practice : biology as ideology. Interview with Richard Lewontin / interview by Gwen D'Arcangelis, Beatriz da Costa, and Kavita Philip ; Living the eleventh thesis / Richard Levins ; Interview with Richard Levins : On philosophy of science / interview by Abha Sur -- II. Life.science.art : curating the book of life. Biotech patronage and the making of Homo DNA / Jacqueline Stevens ; Soft science : artists' experiments in documentary storytelling / Rachel Mayeri ; Observations on an art of growing interest : toward a phenomenological approach to art involving biotechnology / Jens Hauser -- III. The biolab and the public. Outfitting the laboratory of the symbolic : toward a critical inventory of bioart / Claire Pentecost ; The ethics of experiential engagement with the manipulation of life / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr ; Labs shut open : a biotech hands-on workshop for artists / Oron Catts and Gary Cass -- IV. Race and the genome. Selective arrests, an ever-expanding DNA forensic database, and the specter of an early twenty-first-century equivalent of phrenology / Troy Duster ; Discovering nature, apparently: analogy, DNA imaging, and the latent figure protocol / Paul Vanouse ; The biopolitics of human genetics research and its application / Fatimah Jackson and Sherie McDonald ; In contradiction lies the hope : human genome and identity politics / Abha Sur and Samir Sur.

V. Gendered science. Common knowledge and political love / subRosa ; Producing transnational knowledge, neoliberal identities, and technoscientific practice in India / Kavita Philip ; Genes, genera, and genres : the natureculture of biofiction in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Karen Cardozo and Banu Subramaniam ; True life science fiction : sexual politics and the lab procedural / Gwyneth Jones -- VI. 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 / Mark Harrington ; The politics of rationality : psychiatric survivor's challenge to psychiatry / E. Gabriella Coleman ; Reaching the limit : when art becomes science / Beatriz da Costa -- VII. Biosecurity and bioethics. From bioethics to human practices, or assembling contemporary equipment / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett ; How do we insure security from perceived biological threats? / Jonathan King ; Bioparanoia and the culture of control / Critical Art Ensemble ; Chinese chickens, ducks, pigs, and humans, and the technoscientific discourses of global U.S. empire / Gwen D'Arcangelis -- VIII. Interspecies co-production. Training in the contact zone : power, play, and invention in the sport of agility / Donna J. Haraway ; Playing with rats / Kathy High ; Animal welfare in the laboratory : a case study in secular ethics of human-animal interaction / Larry Carbone.

'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.