Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical

by Sakari Tamminen and Eric Deibel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138225576
• ISBN13: 9781138225572
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"