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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Main Author: Tamminen, Sakari
Other Authors: Deibel, Eric
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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