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Recoding Life - Information and the Biopolitical (Hardcover)
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Recoding Life - Information and the Biopolitical (Hardcover)
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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). The book's approach is
captured in the title, which refers to 'the biopolitical'. The
authors argue that through discussions of political theories of
sovereignty and related geopolitical conceptions of nature and
society, we can understand how crucially important it is that life
is constantly unsettling and disrupting the established and
familiar ordering of the material world and the related ways of
thinking and acting politically. The biopolitical dynamics involved
are conceptualised as the 'metacode of life', which refers to the
shifting configurations of living materiality and the merging of
conventional boundaries between the natural and artificial, the
living and non-living. The result is a globalising world in which
the need for an alternative has become a core part of its political
and legal instability, and the authors identify a number of
possible alternative platforms to understand life and the living as
framed by the 'metacodes' of life. This book will appeal to
scholars of science and technology studies, as well as scholars of
the sociology, philosophy, and anthropology of science, who are
seeking to understand social and technical heterogeneity as a
characteristic of the life sciences.
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