Bio-objects: new conjugations of the living

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/15174522-02105005

Palavras-chave:

Life sciences, Life, Living objects, Technologies of life, Epistemic platforms

Resumo

Rapid advances in the life sciences have led to a radical transformation in thinking about what life is: we now compose living beings as synthetic life, from the ground up. “Life” has been multiplied and fragmented in molecular and database form and can be embodied in anything from engineered organisms through organs grown outside the body to bioprinted materials. Such new forms of life disrupt social relationships, challenge boundaries between culturally defined categories, pose new questions for governance, and reshape relations between living and ethics. Building on their earlier work with “bio‑objects”, the authors suggest that this concept can aid greatly in mapping out and analysing the empirical spheres in which new conjugations of life are being re‑articulated. The paper contextualises the concept further via an examination of literature about life, and it systematically identifies key epistemic platforms through which bio-objects are brought to life today.

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Biografia do Autor

Sakari Tamminen, University of Helsinki

Research fellow at the Department of Social Psychology in the University of Helsinki

Niki Vermeulen, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Senior Lecturer at the Science Technology and Innovation Studies Department in the University of Edinburg

Publicado

2019-02-23

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TAMMINEN, S.; VERMEULEN, N. Bio-objects: new conjugations of the living. Sociologias, [S. l.], v. 21, n. 50, 2019. DOI: 10.1590/15174522-02105005. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/sociologias/article/view/88676. Acesso em: 28 mar. 2024.