Biopower imagined : Biotechnological art and life engineering
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00111793" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00111793 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0539018417745164" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0539018417745164</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018417745164" target="_blank" >10.1177/0539018417745164</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Biopower imagined : Biotechnological art and life engineering
Original language description
We are witnessing profound changes in our societies via biosciences, biotechnologization, and digitalization. The influence and application of specific engineering rationality and cybernetic perspectives to the complex systems of living structures and to the language of biology are integral parts of our cultural environment. The biotechnological reproduction of life, bodies and cells, as well as AI-equipped machines, has become normal and sometimes even technically routine in contemporary societies. The biotechnologization of society and the engineering of life have also significantly influenced contemporary art fields, practices and projects. The crucial analytical scope for this article is a specific biotechnological art field – bio art. Bio art includes the works of artists who are intrigued by working with living or semi-living tissues and biotechnologies. Using specific artworks, mainly by Louis Bec, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and Biononymous, the text investigates current forms of power over life – biopower – that imagine, classify, and govern our societies today, even on molecular and genetic levels. The text analyzes artistic reflections of the processes by which people are governed mainly as the derivatives of the body, biological and genetic data sets. In this context, the article explores artworks inspired by specific biopolitical engineering rationality and surveillance practices enabling naming, fabricating and dealing with life which is synthesized, ethnicized and monitored.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50400 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Social Science Information
ISSN
0539-0184
e-ISSN
1461-7412
Volume of the periodical
57
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
59-76
UT code for WoS article
000423320900004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85041103075