Re: LIFESCIENCE: LifeScience - Cells, Strategies, Problematics

["Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard" <B.Richard@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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Eugene Thacker schrieb:

> LifeScience Net Symposium: Cells, Strategies, Problematics
>
> Eugene Thacker
>
>

> But then we saw that the power is in the information.

that is exactly what this whole technology and its industrialisation is about, extracting
the informations out of a living or dead body and marketing them, top of the iceberg in gene
piracy

A very sufficient attempt to structure the whole topic!

> - Biotech [tech research such as DNA chips, Microarrays, modeling, and
> research in tissue engineering, stem cell research, regenerative
> organs/tissues, as well as intersections w/ ag-bio, big pharma,
> genetics, and the government-corporate-university complex]
>
> - Cloning & Genetic Engineering [Dolly & the proliferation of cloned
> animals, human embryo cloning & experimentation, transgenic organisms]
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> - Genomics [Human Genome Project, but also corporate-framed genomic
> mapping projects, animal genomes, genomic technologies & automation, and bioinformatics]
>
> - Artificial Intelligence & Artificial Life [programming complex
> behavior, developments in cognitive science, emergent systems,
> human-machine neural networks, research in nonlinear dynamics,
> machine-learning approaches, autopoiesis]
>
> - Biopiracy [Human Genome Diversity Project, new sociobiology &
> eugenics, bio-colonialism of biological materials from "other" cultures,
> genetic disease & genetic ethnicity, patenting & IPRs/intellectual
> property rights of biological materials]
>
> - Ag-Bio & Pharming [transgenic foods and crops, genetic engineering of
> livestock for production of food, medicine, and xenotransplantation, bioremediation]
>
> - Medicine [medical genetics, immunology, gene therapy, endocrinology,
> telesurgery, plastic/cosmetic/reconstructive surgery, NRTs/new
> reproductive technologies]
>

thank you very much for the contribution eugene thacker!
regards
b.richard
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