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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Main Author: Tamminen, Sakari (auth)
Other Authors: Deibel, Eric (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: 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).
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (172 p.)
ISBN:9781315399225
9781315399218
9781138225572
9780367897314
Access:Open Access