Recoding life information and the biopolitical

This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucault’s biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. It examines a wide range of bioscientific knowledge practices that allow life...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Tamminen, Sakari, author (author), Deibel, Eric, author
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis 2018.
2018.
Edición:First edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421112906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • chapter 1 Recoding life: information and the biopolitical
  • chapter 2 Rethinking the biopolitical
  • chapter 3 Read, write, standardise
  • chapter 4 Crossing boundaries: the global politics of access and plant as species of life™
  • chapter 5 Animal genetic resources as a global matter of concern
  • chapter 6 Recoding synthetic life : from openness to (free as in) freedom
  • chapter 7 Re-thinking the age of biology: biomass, biohacking, and open-source seeds
  • chapter 8 The re-articulation of biopolitical theory in an era of informatics.