Paul Rabinow on "Synthetic Anthropos" by Eugene Raikhel
At the National Humanities Center’s excellent On the Human Forum, Paul Rabinow has a new post describing his recent work on synthetic biology–conducted in collaboration with a number of students and...
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We haven’t had a round-up of links for a while, so here goes: Life/Politics Didier Fassin, “Another Politics of Life is Possible“, Theory, Culture and Society 26(5), 2009. An argument which Fassin made...
View ArticlePublic Debate and the Conflict of the Faculties by Anthony Stavrianakis
For the last five years Paul Rabinow, Gaymon Bennett and I engaged in collaborative participant-observation in the Berkeley based Synthetic biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). SynBERC is a...
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An estimated 400,000 women around the world are living with breast implants manufactured by the now defunct company Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP) using industrial grade silicone not approved for medical...
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