Technoscience & Bodies I - Lecture links
Biopower
“For millennia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his existence as a living being in question.”
- Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality 1: The will to knowledge
“[R]ecent developments in the life sciences, biomedicine and biotechnology can usefully be analysed along three dimensions. The first concerns logics of control - for contemporary biopolitics is risk politics. The second concerns the regime of truth in the life sciences - for contemporary biopolitics is molecular politics. The third concerns technologies of the self - for contemporary biopolitics is ethopolitics.”
- Nikolas Rose, “The Politics of Life Itself,” Theory, Culture & Society, 18(6):1-30.
Thoughts on the Concept of Biopower Today (pdf) by Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose
From Biopower to Biopolitics by Maurizio Lazzarato
Technoscientific issues & concerns
The Creation of Genetic Identity by Phillip Thurtle
The American Eugenics Movement
Techno-progressivism vs. bioconservatism
Stem Cells - science, ethics and politics at the forefront of biomedical innovation
Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee - Patents
PBS: Our Genes/Our Choices & Organ Farm
Time Magazine: Cloning archives
Bioart
Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics
Biotech Hobbyist Magazine: A brief history of tissue cult(ure)
Eduardo Kac
“Transgenic works and other living pieces…”Stelarc (@Transmediale 2007)
“Bodies are both Zombies and Cyborgs…”The Tissue Culture & Art Project
“[R]esearch and development project into the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression…”Biojewelry
“The project is seeking couples who want to donate their bone cells…Their cells will be prepared and seeded onto a bioactive scaffold…The bone will be combined with traditional precious metals so that each has a ring made with the tissue of their partner…”Bioteknica
“[D]edicated to the progressive advancement of human genetic structure…”CAE: BioCom
“The researchers here at BioCom have two primary goals - to completely invade the flesh with vision and mapping technologies…and to develop the political and economic frontiers of flesh products and services…”CAE: Society for Reproductive Anachronisms
“[F]ormed in 1992 to combat the rationalization and instrumentalization of the reproductive process that is occurring in order to totally manage its service to the pancapitalist order…”CAE: Cult of the New Eve
“Welcome to the Second Genesis, Brothers and Sisters, we are witnessing a remaking of the world…”YouTube: Steve Kurtz Waiting + Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund
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