Data Made Flesh: Biotechnology and the Discourse of the Posthuman

Thacker, Eugene

doi:10.1353/cul.2003.0029

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“…Current readings of sci-fi as public culture have often relied on the close textual analysis of a small number of texts. Sci-fi narratives have both advocated extensive development of genetic technologies and argued for regulation and limitation of these technologies (Bendle, 2002;Thacker, 2001Thacker, , 2003Condit et al, 2002a;Gomel, 2000;Turney, 1998). Although they may have persuasive content, sci-fi narratives are roundly criticized by scientists and educators as misleading and by students as shallow and limited (Michael and Carter, 2001).…”

Section: Expressing Genesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public culture and public understanding of genetics: a focus group study

Bates

2005

Public Underst Sci

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As the role of genetic science in everyday life has grown, policymakers have become concerned about Americans’ understandings of this science. Much effort has been devoted to formal schooling, but less attention has been paid to the role of public culture in shaping public understanding of genetics. Research into public cultural messages about genetics has claimed that the public is likely to adopt problematic accounts, but few studies have explored the public’s articulation of these messages. This study is based on 25 focus groups convened to explore the lay public’s understanding of genetics. The study found that the public processed a greater variety of messages than assumed by previous researchers, including documentaries, non-sciencefiction films, and popular television in addition to previous researchers’ focus on science fiction and news media. The study also found that the public does not process the messages through the linear, transmission model assumed by previous research. The public processes messages about genetics complexly and critically. On the basis of these findings, the study suggests that researchers should include a greater variety of texts about genetics in their research and attend more fully to audience processing in addition to content analyses of these texts

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Section: Expressing Genesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public culture and public understanding of genetics: a focus group study

Bates

2005

Public Underst Sci

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“…63 But this line of thought dangerously entrusts sentience and self-control in the sole hands of human subjects as "agents of change," without dutifully questioning our understanding of what could be considered a human proper, therefore disregarding independent contributions of those scripted as "nonhumans" by the dominant ideology. 64 Rejecting the possibilities for technologically orchestrated humanoids to acquire the right to subjective intervention, such a vision postulates the potentiality of a future still polarized by those scripted as complete human subjects, with their alterations considered as outside this paradigm pushed towards the edges and regarded as ex-centric minor voices voided of sentience, whose role is of little importance in the larger scheme of intervention.…”

Section: The Epicenter Of Humanity: a Debatementioning

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Beyond the Human: Transhumanist Negotiations and Posthuman Instantiations in Aldoux Huxley’s Brave New World and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Danilescu¹

2018

CEchinox

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“…Whether it be city planners drawing on models of circulation (Sennett 1996) or computer malfunctions that are today described and treated as "viruses," our knowledge of bodies and their biological processes has a pervasive influence on the way we organize our world (Martin 1987;Treichler 1999;Thacker 2003). Canguilhem ([1966] 1991) writes of the historical formation of concepts of normal and pathological in modern medicine (Philo 2007), but we might also take from his analysis that it is in these crossings between medical knowledge of the body and geographical knowledge of societies that many such political determinations arise.…”

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Vital Geographies: Life, Luck, and the Human Condition

Kearns¹,

Reid-Henry

2009

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Life has been problematized anew by recent social change and scientific innovation. There are important and little studied geographical dimensions to any such understanding of "the politics of life itself," however. A geographical perspective involves, first, highlighting the spatial aspects of both states and capital, two rather neglected dimensions of vital politics. Elaborating the geographical constitution of vital politics entails further describing the related powers of knowledges and practices. Reflecting on the geographical dimensions of longevity and health leads directly to a recognition of the ethical implications of the geographical luck of birth and residence. Taking up this ethical challenge requires specifying at least six components of geographical justice: culpability, fairness, care, state failure, human rights, and solidarity with environmental and social justice. Key Words: biomedicine, care, health, inequality, justice, longevity, medical ethics. Otra vez, la vida adquiere dimensión problémica en virtud del cambio social y la innovación científica. Sin embargo, aunque existen importantes dimensiones geográficas para comprender "las políticas de la vida misma," muy escaso es el estudio hecho sobre el particular. Una perspectiva geográfica a este respecto implica, primero que todo, destacar los aspectos espaciales tanto de los estados como de sus capitales, dos expresiones de las políticas vitales hasta ahora muy marginadas. Elaborar la constitución geográfica de la política vital demanda describir con mayor profundidad los poderes relacionados de conocimientos y prácticas. El reflexionar sobre las dimensiones geográficas de longevidad y salud lleva directamente a un reconocimiento de las implicacioneséticas de la casualidad geográfica del lugar de nacimiento y residencia. Para asumir estos retoséticos se requiere especificar por lo menos seis componentes de justicia geográfica: culpabilidad, equidad, cuidado, falla del estado, derechos humanos y solidaridad con la justicia ambiental y social. Palabras clave : biomedicina, cuidado, salud, desigualdad, justicia, longevidad,ética médica. L ife is being politicized in new and novel ways today, especially in Western societies and especially with regard to some of the possibilities wrought by recent and rapid developments in the biological sciences. A growing number of geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists are exploring such "vital" issues as the social implications of neuroscience or the political and legal vortex surrounding regenerative medicine (Fischer 2003;N. Brown and Webster 2004;Wainwright et al. 2006). So, too, are they analyzing how life is being revalued (Collier and Ong 2005;Sunder Rajan 2006;Waldby and Mitchell 2007). Such nonphilosophical accounts of the politics of life (that is, accounts that are based primarily on ethnographic or sociological investigation rather than on a purely philosophical reflection) concern what we might call the form of life itself and how various technologies reconfigure it. Such work cons...

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Data Made Flesh: Biotechnology and the Discourse of the Posthuman

Cited by 73 publications

References 17 publications

Public culture and public understanding of genetics: a focus group study

Public culture and public understanding of genetics: a focus group study

Beyond the Human: Transhumanist Negotiations and Posthuman Instantiations in Aldoux Huxley’s Brave New World and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Vital Geographies: Life, Luck, and the Human Condition

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