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Genes and the Bioimaginary - Science, Spectacle, Culture (Paperback)
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Genes and the Bioimaginary - Science, Spectacle, Culture (Paperback)
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Genes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and
contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'. The book traces not
only the genetification of modern life but is also a journey
through the complex relationship between science and culture. At
the heart of this book are three interlinked questions. The first
concerns the paradigmatic transformations of the 'genetics
revolution': how can we understand the impact of genes on social
arenas as diverse as law and agriculture, politics and medicine,
genealogy and jurisprudence? Second, how has the language of genes
come to pervade public discourse - as much a trope of personal
narrative as of the popular imaginary? And third, how can we gain
critical purchase not only on the conditions and consequences of a
particular science, but on its projective seductions, the terms of
its persuasion, and the dilemmas and anxieties provoked in its
wake? Through a series of illuminating case studies ranging from
'gay genes' to 'Jew genes', to genes for crime; from CSI to the
Innocence Project, from genetics (post)racial imaginary to its
phantasies of redemption, the book examines the emergence of the
gene as a pre-eminent locus of both scientific and social
explanation, and as a powerful object of spectacle, projective
phantasy and attachment. Genes and the Bioimaginary makes a
distinctive contribution to our understanding of how knowledge
comes to be not only powerful, but plausible.
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