LEADER 04104nam 22006375 450 001 9910162715003321 005 20240606151931.0 010 $a0-226-44063-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226440637 035 $a(CKB)3710000001022134 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001651286 035 $a(DE-B1597)524445 035 $a(OCoLC)969637128 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226440637 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4787539 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001022134 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSynthetic $eHow Life Got Made /$fSophia Roosth 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2017] 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-226-44046-X 311 $a0-226-44032-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Analysis: Synthesis --$tInterlude 1: Plastic Fantastic --$t1. Life by Design: Evolution and Creation Tales in Synthetic Biology --$tInterlude 2: From Still Life to More Intense Life --$t2. The Synthetic Kingdom: Transgenic Kinship in the Postgenomic Era --$tInterlude 3: "To Make an Eye, a Hair, a Leaf" --$t3. The Rebirth of the Author: New Life in Legal and Economic Circuits --$tInterlude 4: Much More than Human --$t4. Biotechnical Agnosticism: Fragmented Life and Labor among the Machines --$tInterlude 5: What Comes Before --$t5. Life Makes Itself at Home: The Rise of Biohacking as Political Action --$tInterlude 6: Life Embryonic and Prophetic --$t6. Latter-Day Lazarus: Biological Salvage and Species Revival --$tConclusion --$tAppendix: A Note on Method --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques, these scientists treated biological media as elements for design and manufacture: viruses named for computers, bacterial genomes encoding passages from James Joyce, chimeric yeast buckling under the metabolic strain of genes harvested from wormwood, petunias, and microbes from Icelandic thermal pools. In Synthetic: How Life Got Made, cultural anthropologist Sophia Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. The first book-length ethnographic study of this discipline, Synthetic documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age. Roosth traces this new science from its origins at MIT to start-ups, laboratories, conferences, and hackers' garages across the United States-even to contemporary efforts to resurrect extinct species. Her careful research reveals that rather than opening up a limitless new field, these biologists' own experimental tactics circularly determine the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon. Exploring the life sciences emblematic of our time, Synthetic tells the origin story of the astonishing claim that biological making fosters biological knowing. 606 $aBiotechnology 606 $aSynthetic biology 610 $aanalysis. 610 $aartifice. 610 $aconstruction. 610 $akinship. 610 $alabor. 610 $alife. 610 $amanufacture. 610 $aproperty. 610 $asynthesis. 610 $asynthetic biology. 615 0$aBiotechnology. 615 0$aSynthetic biology. 676 $a660/.6509 686 $aBK 8200$2rvk 700 $aRoosth$b Sophia$0887800 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162715003321 996 $aSynthetic$91983149 997 $aUNINA