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...
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2018
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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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Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (172 p.) |
ISBN: | 9781315399225 9781315399218 9781138225572 9780367897314 |
Access: | Open Access |