Friday, December 5, 2008

Jamming Biotech

My paper will focus on Critical Art Ensemble's Biotechnology projects, in which they target specific strains of research, development, and capitalization within the life sciences. Their main focuses are on reproductive issues and food biodiversity. 
More specifically, I'd like to consider how their work--both theoretical statements and tactical deployments--does or does not align with Terranova's model of network politics; Lyotard's concept of an antagonistics of language games & open access to information; and Deleuze & Guattari's ideas of the de- & re-territorializations of capital. Of tantamount importance are the role of institutionalized science in providing new products for capital and the possibility of mobilizing targeted scientific and media interventions to forge a resistant, critical biology.

As it stands, I'm not sure exactly how I'll outline the study--any suggestions are more than welcome. I think that it might be useful to separate it into the following categories: institutional science, eugenics, genetic engineering & capital; the political strategies of critical biology in terms of organization, goals, and tactics; how information, both genetic and scientific, is conceptualized and (de-/re-)politicized differently by these two projects.

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