Tactical biopolitics : art, activism, and technoscience / edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip ; with a foreword by Joseph Dumit.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008], ©2008.

xxii, 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Foreword : Biological Feedback / Joseph Dumit -- Introduction / Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip -- I. Theory and Practice : Biology as Ideology -- 1. Interview with Richard Lewontin / Interview by Gwen D'Arcangelis, Beatriz da Costa, and Kavita Philip -- 2. Living the Eleventh Thesis / Richard Levins -- 3. Interview with Richard Levins : On Philosophy of Science / Interview by Abha Sur -- II. Life.science.art : Curating the Book of Life -- 4. Biotech Patronage and the Making of Homo DNA / Jacqueline Stevens -- 5. Soft Science : Artists' Experiments in Documentary Storytelling / Rachel Mayeri -- 6. Observations on an Art of Growing Interest : Toward a Phenomenological Approach to Art Involving Biotechnology / Jens Hauser -- III. The Biolab and the Public -- 7. Outfi tting the Laboratory of the Symbolic : Toward a Critical Inventory of Bioart / Claire Pentecost -- 8. The Ethics of Experiential Engagement with the Manipulation of Life / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr -- 9. Labs Shut Open : A Biotech Hands-on Workshop for Artists / Oron Catts and Gary Cass -- IV. Race and the Genome -- 10. Selective Arrests, an Ever-Expanding DNA Forensic Database, and the Specter of an Early Twenty-First-Century Equivalent of Phrenology / Troy Duster -- 11. Discovering Nature, Apparently: Analogy, DNA Imaging, and the Latent Figure Protocol / Paul Vanouse -- 12. The Biopolitics of Human Genetics Research and Its Application / Fatimah Jackson and Sherie McDonald -- 13. In Contradiction Lies the Hope : Human Genome and Identity Politics / Abha Sur and Samir Sur -- V. Gendered Science -- 14. Common Knowledge and Political Love / subRosa -- 15. Producing Transnational Knowledge, Neoliberal Identities, and Technoscientific Practice in India / Kavita Philip -- 16. Genes, Genera, and Genres : The NatureCulture of BioFiction in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation / Karen Cardozo and Banu Subramaniam -- 17. True Life Science Fiction : Sexual Politics and the Lab Procedural / Gwyneth Jones -- VI. Expertise and Amateur Science -- 18. Uncommon Life / Eugene Thacker -- 19. AIDS Activists and People with AIDS : A Movement to Revolutionize Research and for Universal Access to Treatment / Mark Harrington -- 20. The Politics of Rationality : Psychiatric Survivor's Challenge to Psychiatry / E. Gabriella Coleman -- 21. Reaching the Limit : When Art Becomes Science / Beatriz da Costa -- VII. Biosecurity and Bioethics -- 22. From Bioethics to Human Practices, or Assembling Contemporary Equipment / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett -- 23. How Do We Insure Security from Perceived Biological Threats? / Jonathan King -- 24. Bioparanoia and the Culture of Control / Critical Art Ensemble -- 25. Chinese Chickens, Ducks, Pigs, and Humans, and the Technoscientific Discourses of Global U.S. Empire / Gwen D'Arcangelis -- VIII. Interspecies Co-Production -- 26. Training in the Contact Zone : Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility / Donna J. Haraway -- 27. Playing with Rats / Kathy High -- 28. Animal Welfare in the Laboratory : A Case Study in Secular Ethics of Human-Animal Interaction / Larry Carbone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.