A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments - Couverture souple

Dan-Cohen, Talia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501754335 ISBN 13 : 9781501754333

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2021

Synopsis

A Simpler Life approaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institutional lives of practitioners in two labs at Princeton University. It highlights the distance between hyped technoscience and the more plodding and entrenched aspects of academic research.

Talia Dan-Cohen follows practitioners as they wrestle with experiments, attempt to publish research findings, and navigate the ins and outs of academic careers. Dan-Cohen foregrounds the practices and rationalities of these pursuits that give both researchers' lives and synthetic life their distinctive contemporary forms. Rather than draw attention to avowed methodology, A Simpler Life investigates some of the more subtle and tectonic practices that bring knowledge, doubt, and technological intervention into new configurations. In so doing, the book sheds light on the more general conditions of contemporary academic technoscience.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Talia Dan-Cohen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is coauthor of A Machine to Make a Future.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501754335
• ISBN 13: 9781501754333
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 174
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