Recoding life : : information and the biopolitical / / by Sakari Tamminen and Eric Deibel.

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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Place / Publishing House:Boca Raton, FL : : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (172)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.