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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">NEW from Leonardo
Book Series and The MIT Press<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Tactical
Biopolitics:
Art, Activism and Technoscience<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Edited by Beatriz da
Costa and Kavita Philip<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Popular culture in
this "biological century" seems to feed on proliferating fears,
anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic
concepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, and the human
itself
are destabilized in the public eye. Tactical Biopolitics suggests that
the
political challenges at the intersection of life, science, and art are
best
addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical
theorizing,
and reflective practices. Transcending disciplinary boundaries,
contributions
to this volume focus on the political significance of recent advances
in the biological
sciences and explore the possibility of public participation in
scientific
discourse, drawing on research and practice in art, biology, critical
theory,
anthropology, and cultural studies.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">After framing the
subject in terms of both biology and art, Tactical Biopolitics
discusses such
topics as race and genetics (with contributions from leading biologists
Richard
Lewontin and Richard Levins); feminist bioscience; the politics of
scientific
expertise; bioart and the public sphere (with an essay by artist Claire
Pentecost); activism and public health (with an essay by Treatment
Action Group
co-founder Mark Harrington); biosecurity after 9/11 (with essays by
artists'
collective Critical Art Ensemble and anthropologist Paul Rabinow); and
human-animal interaction (with a framing essay by cultural theorist
Donna
Haraway).<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Contributors: Gaymon
Bennett, Larry Carbone, Karen Cardozo, Gary Cass, Beatriz da Costa,
Oron Catts,
Gabriella Coleman, Critical Art Ensemble, Gwen D'Arcangelis, Troy
Duster, Donna
Haraway, Mark Harrington, Jens Hauser, Kathy High, Fatimah Jackson,
Gwyneth
Jones, Jonathan King, Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin, Rachel Mayeri,
Sherie
McDonald, Claire Pentecost, Kavita Philip, Paul Rabinow, Banu
Subramanian,
subRosa, Abha Sur, Samir Sur, Jacqueline Stevens, Eugene Thacker, Paul
Vanouse,
Ionat Zurr.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">About the Editors<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Beatriz da Costa
does
interventionist art using computing and biotechnologies. She is an
Associate
Professor at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Irvine</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Kavita Philip
studies
colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience using history and
critical
theory. She is an Associate Professor at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Irvine</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">June 2008<br>
The MIT Press<br>
A Leonardo Book<br>
ISBN:0-262-04249-5<br>
540 pp., 48 figures<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Other titles
available from The Leonardo Book Series on art
and biology include:<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- Signs of Life: Bio
Art and Beyond, edited by Eduardo Kac (2007)<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">- The Global Genome:
Biotechnology, Politics and Culture, by Eugene Thacker (2005)<o:p></o:p></span>
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