Recoding life : Information and the biopolitical

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Re-thinking the age of biology Biomass, biohacking, and open-source seeds

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Read, write, standardise

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Crossing boundaries The global politics of access and plant as species of life (TM)

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Animal genetic resources as a global matter of concern

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Rethinking the biopolitical

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The re-articulation of biopolitical theory in an era of informatics

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Recoding synthetic life (c) From openness to (free as in) freedom

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Recoding Life

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)