Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities Volume 13

ISBN-13: 9780816630134 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str.

Saul E. Halforn; Peter J. Taylor; Saul Halfon

Opis

In laboratories all over the world, life -- even the idea of life -- is changing. And with these changes, whether they result in square tomatoes or cyborgs, come transformations in our social order -- sometimes welcome, sometimes troubling. Changing Life offers a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities.

These essays -- about planetary management and genome sequencing, ecologies and cyborgs -- address actual and imagined transformations at the center and at the margins of transnational relations, during the post-Cold War era and in times to come.