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# Read # The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (Leonardo Book Series) by Eugene Thacker ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (Leonardo Book Series) Thacker points out the internal tension in the very concept of biotechnology: the products are more "tech" than "bio," but the technology itself is fully biological, composed of the biomaterial labor of genes, proteins, cells, and tissues. In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. The "global genome," says Thacker, makes it impossible to consider biotechnolog
| Title | : | The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (Leonardo Book Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262201550 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
What separates Thacker's work from other similar attempts is his brilliant critical framing of the issues, as well as his unrelenting grounding of life science and its attendant technologies within the larger field of political economy. (Steven Kurtz, State University of New York at Buffalo, Member, Critical Art Ensemble) . The Global Genome is that rare thing: a book that combines a confident knowledge of biotechnology with a sharp eye for theory, with pyrotechnic results. An analytical and theoretical tour de force. This volume is a powerful interdisciplinary work, in the most authentic sense of the term. (Tiziana Terranova, Department of Sociology, University at Essex)Eugene Thacker has written an indispensibable overview of current trends and developments in the technosphere of the life sciences, changes that are having a tremendous, though often latent, impat on everday life on a global scale. Thacker maps a biopolitical economy of recombinant capital, biomaterial l
Eugene Thacker is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
A great look at the way digital media Eugene Thacker always delivers and this early work is no exception. A great look at the way digital media, information technology, and biomedical sciences are imbricated and commodified in the contemporary moment.Integral for anyone interested in thinking about biopolitics -- it offers a perspective on the subject often overlooked.. "DNA=channel" according to Kenji Siratori. "Eugene Thacker send back out the DNA=channel that turned on the industrial ill-treatment of a chemical=anthropoid era respiration-byte." - Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric
Thacker points out the internal tension in the very concept of biotechnology: the products are more "tech" than "bio," but the technology itself is fully biological, composed of the biomaterial labor of genes, proteins, cells, and tissues. In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. The "global genome," says Thacker, makes it impossible to consider biotechnology without the context of globalism.. Thacker moves easily from science to philosophy to political economics, enlivening his account with ideas from such thinkers as Georges Bataille, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Antonio Negri, and Paul Virilio. Is biotechnology a technology at all, he asks, or is it a notion of "life itself" that is inseparable from its use in the biotech industry?The three sections of the book cover the three primary activities of biotechnology today: the encoding of bio
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