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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2018
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| Collection: | OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 (remade through codes based on standard language and biotech engineering visions). |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), by-nc-nd/4.0/, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Physical Description: | 172 p. |
| ISBN: | 9781315399225 9781138225572 9781315399218 9780367897314 |