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Series Foreword | p. ix |
Foreword: Biological Feedback | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
Theory and Practice: Biology as Ideology | p. 1 |
Interview with Richard Lewontin | p. 3 |
Living the Eleventh Thesis | p. 25 |
Interview with Richard Levins: On Philosophy of Science | p. 35 |
Life.science.art: Curating the Book of Life | p. 41 |
Biotech Patronage and the Making of Homo DNA | p. 43 |
Soft Science: Artists' Experiments in Documentary Storytelling | p. 63 |
Observations on an Art of Growing Interest | p. 83 |
Toward a Phenomenological Approach to Art Involving BiotechnologyJens Hauser (Curator and Media Studies Scholar) | |
The Biolab and the Public | p. 105 |
Outfitting the Laboratory of the Symbolic | p. 107 |
Toward a Critical Inventory of BioartClaire Pentecost (Artist and Public Amateur) | |
The Ethics of Experiential Engagement with the Manipulation of Life | p. 125 |
Labs Shut Open: A Biotech Hands-on Workshop for Artists | p. 143 |
Race and the Genome | p. 157 |
Selective Arrests, an Ever-Expanding DNA Forensic Database, and the Specter of an Early Twenty-First-Century Equivalent of Phrenology | p. 159 |
Discovering Nature, Apparently: Analogy, DNA Imaging, and the Latent Figure Protocol | p. 177 |
The Biopolitics of Human Genetics Research and Its Application | |
In Contradiction Lies the Hope: Human Genome and Identity Politics | |
Gendered Science | p. 219 |
Common Knowledge and Political Love | p. 221 |
Producing Transnational Knowledge, Neoliberal Identities, and Technoscientific Practice in India | p. 243 |
Genes, Genera, and Genres: The NatureCulture of BioFiction in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation | p. 269 |
True Life Science Fiction: Sexual Politics and the Lab Procedural | p. 289 |
Expertise and Amateur Science | p. 307 |
Uncommon Life | p. 309 |
AIDS Activists and People with AIDS: A Movement to Revolutionize Research and for Universal Access to Treatment | p. 323 |
The Politics of Rationality: Psychiatric Survivor's Challenge to Psychiatry | p. 341 |
Reaching the Limit: When Art Becomes Science | p. 365 |
Biosecurity and Bioethics | p. 387 |
From Bioethics to Human Practices, or Assembling Contemporary Equipment | p. 389 |
How Do We Insure Security from Perceived Biological Threats? | p. 401 |
Bioparanoia and the Culture of Control | p. 413 |
Critical Art Ensemble (ArtistÆs Collective) | |
Chinese Chickens, Ducks, Pigs, and Humans, and the Technoscientific Discourses of Global U.S. Empire | p. 429 |
Interspecies Co-Production | p. 443 |
Training in the Contact Zone: Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility | p. 445 |
Playing with Rats | p. 465 |
Animal Welfare in the Laboratory: A Case Study in Secular Ethics of Human-Animal Interaction | p. 479 |
Contributors | p. 487 |
Index | p. 489 |
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