| Series Foreword | ix |
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| Foreword: Biological Feedback
Joseph Dumit (Anthropologist of Media and Technology)
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| Acknowledgments | xv |
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| Introduction
Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip
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| I. | Theory and Practice: Biology as Ideology | 1 |
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| 1. | Interview with Richard Lewontin
Interview by Gwen D'Arcangelis, Beatriz da Costa, and Kavita Philip
Sample Chapter - Download PDF (177 KB) | 3 |
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| 2. | Living the Eleventh Thesis
Richard Levins (Biologist and Public Intellectual) | 25 |
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| 3. | Interview with Richard Levins: On Philosophy of Science
Interview by Abha Sur | 35 |
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| II. | Life.science.art: Curating the Book of Life | 41 |
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| 4. | Biotech Patronage and the Making of Homo DNA
Jacqueline Stevens (Political Scientist) | 43 |
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| 5. | Soft Science: Artists' Experiments in Documentary Storytelling
Rachel Mayeri (Media Artist and Curator) | 63 |
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| 6. | Observations on an Art of Growing Interest
Toward a Phenomenological Approach to Art Involving Biotechnology
Jens Hauser (Curator and Media Studies Scholar) | 83 |
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| III. | The Biolab and the Public | 105 |
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| 7. | Outfitting the Laboratory of the Symbolic
Toward a Critical Inventory of Bioart
Claire Pentecost (Artist and Public Amateur) | 107 |
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| 8. | The Ethics of Experiential Engagement with the Manipulation of Life
Oron Catts (Artist Working with Living Tissue) and Ionat Zurr (Artist Working with Living Tissue) | 125 |
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| 9. | Labs Shut Open: A Biotech Hands-on Workshop for Artists
Oron Catts and Gary Cass (Scientific Technician, Agricultural Science) | 143 |
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| IV. | Race and the Genome | 157 |
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| 10. | Selective Arrests, an Ever-Expanding DNA Forensic Database, and the Specter of an Early Twenty-First-Century Equivalent of Phrenology
Troy Duster (Sociologist of Science and Public Intellectual) | 159 |
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| 11. | Discovering Nature, Apparently: Analogy, DNA Imaging, and the Latent Figure Protocol
Paul Vanouse (New Media Artist Working with Wetware) | 177 |
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| 12. | The Biopolitics of Human Genetics Research and Its Application
Fatimah Jackson (Biological Anthropologist and Geneticist) and Sherie McDonald (Biologist) | 193 |
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| 13. | In Contradiction Lies the Hope: Human Genome and Identity Politics
Abha Sur (Women's Studies and Science Studies Scholar) and Samir Sur (a Student of Medicine) | 205 |
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| V. | Gendered Science | 219 |
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| 14. | Common Knowledge and Political Love
subRosa (a Cyber Feminist Cell of Cultural Producers Working with Wetware) | 221 |
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| 15. | Producing Transnational Knowledge, Neoliberal Identities, and Technoscientific Practice in India
Kavita Philip (Science Studies Scholar) | 243 |
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| 16. | Genes, Genera, and Genres: The NatureCulture of BioFiction in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
Karen Cardozo (Literary Scholar) and Banu Subramaniam (Biologist and Women's Studies Scholar | 269 |
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| 17. | True Life Science Fiction: Sexual Politics and the Lab Procedural
Gwyneth Jones (Science Fiction Writer and Essayist) | 289 |
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| VI. | Expertise and Amateur Science | 307 |
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| 18. | Uncommon Life
Eugene Thacker (Scholar of Inexistent Crytobiology, Empiricist of Unknown Kadaths) | 309 |
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| 19. | AIDS Activists and People with AIDS: A Movement to Revolutionize Research and for Universal Access to Treatment
Mark Harrington (Co-founder and Executive Director of the Treatment Action Group) | 323 |
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| 20. | The Politics of Rationality: Psychiatric Survivor's Challenge to Psychiatry
E. Gabriella Coleman (Anthropologist of Science and Technology) | 341 |
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| 21. | Reaching the Limit: When Art Becomes Science
Beatriz da Costa (Artist/Engineer) | 365 |
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| VII. | Biosecurity and Bioethics | 387 |
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| 22. | From Bioethics to Human Practices, or Assembling Contemporary Equipment
Paul Rabinow (Anthropologist and Critical Theorist) and Gaymon Bennett (Anthropologist and Theologian) | 389 |
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| 23. | How Do We Insure Security from Perceived Biological Threats?
Jonathan King (Molecular Biologist and a Founder of the Council for Responsible Genetics) | 401 |
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| 24. | Bioparanoia and the Culture of Control
Critical Art Ensemble (Artist’s Collective) | 413 |
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| 25. | Chinese Chickens, Ducks, Pigs, and Humans, and the Technoscientific Discourses of Global U.S. Empire
Gwen D'Arcangelis (Women's Studies and Science Studies Ph.D. candidate) | 429 |
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| VIII. | Interspecies Co-Production | 443 |
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| 26. | Training in the Contact Zone: Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility
Donna J. Haraway (Science Studies Scholar) | 445 |
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| 27. | Playing with Rats
Kathy High (Media Artist) | 465 |
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| 28. | Animal Welfare in the Laboratory: A Case Study in Secular Ethics of Human-Animal Interaction
Larry Carbone (Veterinary Ethicist) | 479 |
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| Contributors
Sample Chapter - Download PDF (104 KB) | 487 |
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| Index
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