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Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical book cover

1st Edition

Recoding Life Information and the Biopolitical

By Sakari Tamminen, Eric Deibel Copyright 2019
172 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 to be known through codes that can be shared (copied), owned (claimed, and managed) and optimised... Read more

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Acknowledgements

1. Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical

2. Rethinking the Biopolitical

3. Read, Write, Standardise

4. Crossing Boundaries: The Global Politics of Access and Plants as Species of Life™

5. Animal Genetic Resources as A Global Matter of Concern

6. Recoding Synthetic Life : From Openness to (Free as in) Freedom

7. Rethinking the Age of Biology: Biomass, Biohacking, and Open Source Seeds

8. The Re-Articulation of Biopolitical Theory in an Era of Informatics

Biography

Sakari Tamminen is an Adjunct Professor of Science and Technology Studies (Anthropology of Science and Technology) at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and co-editor of Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century.

Eric Deibel is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biotechnology at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and lectures STS to engineering students at Bilkent University.

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