[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism and Technoscience -- NEW from Leonardo Book Series

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NEW from Leonardo Book Series and The MIT Press
 
Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism and Technoscience
Edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip
 
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.
 
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).
 
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.
 
About the Editors
 
Beatriz da Costa does interventionist art using computing and 
biotechnologies. She is an Associate Professor at the University of 
California, Irvine.
 
Kavita Philip studies colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience 
using history and critical theory. She is an Associate Professor at the 
University of California, Irvine.
 
June 2008
The MIT Press
A Leonardo Book
ISBN:0-262-04249-5
540 pp., 48 figures
 
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Other titles available from The Leonardo Book Series on art and biology 
include:
 
- Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, edited by Eduardo Kac (2007)
- The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics and Culture, by Eugene 
Thacker (2005)
 
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Leonardo Book Series visit the Leonardo Book Series website at: 
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks.html
 
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