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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (535 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/5
• Soggetto topico: Biology - Social aspects; Technological innovations - Social aspects; Biotechnology - Social aspects; Biopolitics; Art and science
• Soggetto non controllato: DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art; SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies; ARTS/Art History/Contemporary Art
• Altri autori: Da CostaBeatriz PhilipKavita <1964->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Public ; 7. 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 Application ; 13. 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 Treatment ; 20. 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 Rats ; 28. Animal Welfare in the Laboratory: A Case Study in Secular Ethics of Human-Animal InteractionContributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: '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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tactical biopolitics
• ISBN: 0-262-27112-5; 1-4356-5500-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782148503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)