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Stopping in the 1970s, "Hybridity" as the fifth and final chapter is less of an end point than a certain realization of the artifice, plasticity, and technology that Wells and Loeb envisioned as the future of the human relationship to living matter as well as of the "catastrophic" situation that Georges Canghuilhem (following Kurt Goldstein) saw in life subjected to the milieu of the laboratory.
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― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
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Nature," instead of representing some pristine category or originary state of being, has taken on an entirely different function ... [it has become nothing more (or less) than an ordering factor--a construct by means of which we attempt to keep technology visible as something separate from our "natural" selves and our everyday lives. In other words, the category "nature," rather than referring to any object or category in the world, is a strategy for maintaining boundaries for political and econ
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Tech studies, wonks, geeks, nerds. A group for people interested in reading the sociology, anthr…more
18 members,
last active 8 years ago
Reading group for the STS community at RPI.
2 members,
last active 14 years ago
This is a group to share literature on environmental health and justice.
5 members,
last active 9 years ago
A group for students or readers of anthropology, practitioners of anthropology, or dabblers in t…more
110 members,
last active 9 years ago
