04169nam 2200661 a 450 991077931860332120230126203029.00-7735-8801-91-283-92022-010.1515/9780773588011(CKB)2550000000996519(EBL)3332568(SSID)ssj0000870468(PQKBManifestationID)11532534(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870468(PQKBWorkID)10818234(PQKB)10782595(Au-PeEL)EBL3332568(CaPaEBR)ebr10642596(CaONFJC)MIL423272(OCoLC)929122049(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/sjrqxq(MiAaPQ)EBC3332568(DE-B1597)656414(DE-B1597)9780773588011(EXLCZ)99255000000099651920130114d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiving factories[electronic resource] biotechnology and the unique nature of capitalism /Kenneth FishMontreal McGill-Queen's University Press20131 online resource (233 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7735-4084-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction - Of Spider-Goats and Mechanical Monsters""; ""1 - Marx and the Unique Nature of Industrial Capitalism""; ""2 - Conceptualizing Living Factories""; ""3 - Harnessing Life Itself as a Productive Force""; ""4 - Breaking the Machine Metaphor: The Difference that Life Makes""; ""5 - The Conscious Organ of the Living Factory""; ""6 - The Meaning of Marxâ€?s Organic Metaphors""; ""7 - Living Factories and the Materiality of Capitalism""; ""Conclusion - Towards a Bright Green Marxism?""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index"""Techniques of genetic engineering are changing the role of living things in the production process. From rabbits that produce human pharmaceuticals in their milk to plants that produce plastics and other building materials in their leaves, life itself is increasingly harnessed as a force of industry - a living factory. What do these cutting edge developments in biotechnology tell us about our relation to nature? Going beyond the usual focus on the ethics and risks surrounding genetically modified organisms, Kenneth Fish takes the emergence of living factories as an opportunity to revisit fundamental questions concerning the relation between human beings, technology, and the natural world. He examines the coincidence of the living factory metaphor in contemporary accounts of biotechnology and in the work of Karl Marx, who described the machine as "a mechanical monster whose body fills whole factories, and whose demonic powers ... burst forth in the fast and feverish whirl of its countless working organs." Weaving together accounts of biotechnology in the molecular- and cyber-sciences, corporate literature, and environmental sociology, Living Factories casts our contemporary relation to nature in a new light. Fish shows that living factories reveal the unique role of capitalism in infusing the forces of nature with conscious purpose subordinated to processes of commodification and accumulation, and that they give a new meaning, and urgency, to the liberation of the forces of production from the fetters of capital."--Publisher's website.Biotechnology industriesGenetic engineeringEconomic aspectsCapitalismSocial aspectsEnvironmental sociologyBiotechnology industries.Genetic engineeringEconomic aspects.CapitalismSocial aspects.Environmental sociology.338.476606WF 9710rvkFish Kenneth1562397MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779318603321Living factories3829958UNINA04125nam 22006855 450 991048380240332120251204105506.09783030698898303069889010.1007/978-3-030-69889-8(CKB)4100000011912135(MiAaPQ)EBC6579160(Au-PeEL)EBL6579160(OCoLC)1250090672(DE-He213)978-3-030-69889-8(EXLCZ)99410000001191213520210430d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKinship in the Age of Mobility and Technology Migrant Family Mobilities in the Contemporary Global Novel /by Lamia Tayeb1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (x, 204 pages)Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference,2752-73609783030698881 3030698882 Chapter 1. Introduction: Transnational Kinship, Technology and the Global Novel -- Chapter 2. Kinship Transformed: Global Technologies and the Unfettering of Family Ties -- Chapter 3. Born into a Muddle of Relationships: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth -- Chapter 4. Between National Diaspora: Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Transnational Wives and Families -- Chapter 5. ‘Navigating’ the Planetary Field of Kinship and Family: Khaled Hosseini and Nadia Hashimi -- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Towards a Planetary Field of Kinship and Relation. .This volume aims to address kinship in the context of global mobility, while studying the effects of technological developments throughout the 20th century on how individuals and communities engage in real or imagined relationships. Using literary representations as a spectrum to examine kinship practices, Lamia Tayeb explores how transnational mobility, bi-culturalism and cosmopolitanism honed, to some extent, the relevant authors’ concerns with the family and wider kinship relations: in these literatures, kinship and the family lose their familiar, taken-for-granted aspect, and yet are still conceived as ‘essential’ spheres of relatedness for uprooted individuals and communities. Tayeb here studies writings by Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled Housseini and Nadia Hashimi, working to understand how transnational kinship dynamics operate when moved beyond the traditional notions of the blood relationship, relationship to place and identification with community. Lamia Tayeb is Assistant Professor of English at the Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia. She is the author of The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature: The Cases of Nadine Gordimer, Michael Ondaatje and David Malouf (2006).Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference,2752-7360Anthropology and the artsPhilosophical anthropologyAnthropologyEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsLiteratureAnthropology of the ArtsAnthropological TheorySociology of MigrationWorld LiteratureAnthropology and the arts.Philosophical anthropology.Anthropology.Emigration and immigrationSocial aspects.Literature.Anthropology of the Arts.Anthropological Theory.Sociology of Migration.World Literature.823.7809.393352Tayeb Lamia1975-1069568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910483802403321Kinship in the age of mobility and technology2556294UNINA