05308oam 2200769Ia 450 991078214850332120190503073344.00-262-27112-51-4356-5500-1(CKB)1000000000536343(EBL)3338907(OCoLC)244796623(SSID)ssj0000255080(PQKBManifestationID)11218174(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000255080(PQKBWorkID)10211670(PQKB)10656842(StDuBDS)EDZ0000131096(MiAaPQ)EBC3338907(OCoLC)244796623(OCoLC)471131293(OCoLC)646754997(OCoLC)722678070(OCoLC)961560907(OCoLC)962622724(OCoLC)965992916(OCoLC)991911384(OCoLC)992029064(OCoLC)1037911663(OCoLC)1038693767(OCoLC)1045477958(OCoLC)1055331952(OCoLC)1066595470(OCoLC)1081237693(OCoLC-P)244796623(MaCbMITP)7494(Au-PeEL)EBL3338907(CaPaEBR)ebr10236043(EXLCZ)99100000000053634320080902d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTactical biopolitics art, activism, and technoscience /edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip ; with a foreword by Joseph DumitCambridge, Mass. MIT Press©20081 online resource (535 p.)LeonardoDescription based upon print version of record.0-262-04249-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Series Foreword; Foreword: Biological Feedback; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Theory and Practice: Biology as Ideology; 1. Interview with Richard Lewontin; 2. Living the Eleventh Thesis; 3. Interview with Richard Levins: On Philosophy of Science; II. Life.science.art: Curating the Book of Life; 4. Biotech Patronage and the Making of Homo DNA; 5. Soft Science: Artists' Experiments in Documentary Storytelling; 6. Observations on an Art of Growing Interest: Toward a Phenomenological Approach to Art Involving Biotechnology; III. The Biolab and the Public7. Outfitting the Laboratory of the Symbolic: Toward a Critical Inventory of Bioart8. The Ethics of Experiential Engagement with the Manipulation of Life; 9. Labs Shut Open: A Biotech Hands-on Workshop for Artists; 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; 11. Discovering Nature, Apparently: Analogy, DNA Imaging, and the Latent Figure Protocol; 12. The Biopolitics of Human Genetics Research and Its Application13. In Contradiction Lies the Hope: Human Genome and Identity PoliticsV. Gendered Science; 14. Common Knowledge and Political Love; 15. Producing Transnational Knowledge, Neoliberal Identities, and Technoscientific Practice in India; 16. Genes, Genera, and Genres: The Nature Culture of BioFiction in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation; 17. True Life Science Fiction: Sexual Politics and the Lab Procedural; VI. Expertise and Amateur Science; 18. Uncommon Life; 19. AIDS Activists and People with AIDS: A Movement to Revolutionize Research and for Universal Access to Treatment20. The Politics of Rationality: Psychiatric Survivor's Challenge to Psychiatry21. Reaching the Limit: When Art Becomes Science; VII. Biosecurity and Bioethics; 22. From Bioethics to Human Practices, or Assembling Contemporary Equipment; 23. How Do We Insure Security from Perceived Biological Threats?; 24. Bioparanoia and the Culture of Control; 25. Chinese Chickens, Ducks, Pigs, and Humans, and the Technoscientific Discourses of Global U.S. Empire; VIII. Interspecies Co-Production; 26. Training in the Contact Zone: Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility; 27. Playing with Rats28. Animal Welfare in the Laboratory: A Case Study in Secular Ethics of Human-Animal InteractionContributors; Index'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 significance of recent advances in biological science.Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)BiologySocial aspectsTechnological innovationsSocial aspectsBiotechnologySocial aspectsBiopoliticsArt and scienceDIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media ArtSOCIAL SCIENCES/Media StudiesARTS/Art History/Contemporary ArtBiologySocial aspects.Technological innovationsSocial aspects.BiotechnologySocial aspects.Biopolitics.Art and science.306.4/5Da Costa Beatriz1572072Philip Kavita1964-1536205OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910782148503321Tactical biopolitics3846701UNINA