Scientists and engineers, if they care for a better world, must more fully understand the consequences of their actions. Artists must learn more about science and take up the challenge of illuminating our technological world to those who are shaping it. Both communities, in making their work more accessible to the other, will benefit. Not everyone will agree with the politics argued here -- but that is fine. The need for dialogue has now extended far beyond Snow's The Two Cultures, and so has its urgency. Tactical Biopolitics takes up that challenge; it is one of the most stimulating books I have read in a long time. -- Charles Taylor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Beatriz da Costa does interventionist art using computing and
biotechnologies. She is an Associate Professor at the University of
California, Irvine.
Kavita Philip studies colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience
using history and critical theory. She is an Associate Professor at
the University of California, Irvine.
Beatriz da Costa does interventionist art using computing and
biotechnologies. She is an Associate Professor at the University of
California, Irvine.
Kavita Philip studies colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience
using history and critical theory. She is an Associate Professor at
the University of California, Irvine.
Kavita Philip studies colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience
using history and critical theory. She is an Associate Professor at
the University of California, Irvine.
Eugene Thacker is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature,
Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of
Technology.
Beatriz da Costa does interventionist art using computing and
biotechnologies. She is an Associate Professor at the University of
California, Irvine.
Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
California at Berkeley. His most recent books include Michel
Foucault- Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (with Hubert
Dreyfus) and The Foucault Reader.
Scholars who concentrate on the nonscientific aspects of bioscience
and biotechnology are often identified with ethical and legal
scholarship focused on narrow range of issues. It is therefore
refreshing to find in Tactical Biopolitics a diverse collection of
essays that extend the horizon of inquiry into the meanings and
impacts of bioscience and biotechnology.—David Castle, The
Quarterly Review of Biology
Tactical Biopolitics is a snapshot of the state-of-the-art at one
of the farthest frontiers of interdisciplinary exploration.—Cheryl
A. Kerfeld, PLoS Biology
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