Recoding Life
Subtitle: Information and the Biopolitical
Contributors: Deibel, Eric
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Society & culture: general; Sociology
Description: 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).
Notes: Open Access Unrestricted online access

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