Re: LIFESCIENCE: Re: LIFE/SCIENCE?

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In einer eMail vom 16.07.99 22:31:27 MEZ, schreiben Sie:

<< Thema:	 LIFESCIENCE: Re: LIFE/SCIENCE?
 Datum:	16.07.99 22:31:27 MEZ
 From:	maldoror@eden.rutgers.edu (Eugene Thacker)
 Sender:	owner-lifescience-en@aec.at
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 ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
 LIFESCIENCE
 Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
 http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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 Since, by the looks of things thus far, it appears that most of us on
 this list are speaking more or less from the perspective of "art"
 (?...), it might be good for us to also talk about the relation between
 "life" and "science." 

perhaps concentrate more on the concrete examples of everyday life (the news 
postings) and discuss their meaning for concepts of life science and art

 I'm going to be a bit reductive here, but the so-called medicalisation
 of life - 

medicine and genetics as sciences of life totally forgetting death as the 
dialectic counterpoint, the abolishment of death through the opening of the 
body


say, in the 18th century in Europe w/ the gradual rise of
 institutionalized hospital systems, demographics, pathology, statistics,
 etc.  - that people like Foucault discuss seems one important moment
 when certain fields w/in science and medicine attempted to speak on
 behalf of life.
 
 This seems so pervasive now that it's perhaps too obvious to state: the
 role of "vital statistics" not only in terms of medical knowledge, but
 in terms of identification (of individuals, of population groups; in DNA
 fingerprinting, health policy and records, genetic screening,
 population/ethnic databases, etc.)  

the point of data management who produces the genetic data who collects and 
interpretates them and who distributes them for economical purposes.

- this all points to one trend,
 which is that the science of life is increasingly also meaning an
 informatics of life. 

economically driven informatics of life is about knowing your potential 
customers from the microstructures of his life and offering him specified 
products.

birgit
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