Impact of science and technology on society Books

Book SynopsisA commentary on the practice of knowledge and technology transfer and the practice of observation and intervention, this title documents the various ways in which knowledge and technology transfer happen in practice and how they result in new socio-technical arrangements.Table of ContentsKnowledge and technology transfer or the travel of thoughts and things, M. de Laet; nature and culture in the field - two centuries of stories from Lituya Bay, Alaska, J. Cruikshank; technology transfer perspectives on climate forecast applications, S. Agrawala, Kenneth Broad; dams and designer fish - travails and travels of the Pacific salmon. M. Black; the people's water - technology transfer and community empowerment in Guatemala, B. Clemens et al; technology transfer - preaching to the converted or seducing the disbelievers, A. von Raesfeld; "transferring" strategies of land management - the knowledge practices of indigenous land owners and environmental scientists, H. Verran; new technologies and knowledge for sustainable development - the empowerment challenge, B. Filip; patents, knowledge and technology transfer - on the politics of positioning and place, M. de Laet; "out-liers", "insiders", and practical harvests - art as technology transfer in a research environment, L. Lynch.

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Book SynopsisAddresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy implications.Trade Review"An important contribution for scholars interested in the philosophy of science, science studies, and policy/decision-making processes around new technologies. - Toby A. Ten Eyck, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making Sense of Emerging Technologies / EdnaF. Einsiedel Part 1: Hindsight Learnings 1 GM Foods in Hindsight / WilliamHallman 2 Patentable Subject Matter: Who Owns What Knowledge?/ Chika B. Onwuekwe 3 Patents in the Public Sphere: Public Perceptions andBiotechnology Patents / Edna F. Einsiedel Part 2: Foresight Applications (Transgenic) Animal Farm 4 Of Biotechnology and Blind Chickens / Paul B.Thompson 5 Transgenic Salmon: Regulatory Oversight of an AnticipatedTechnology / Emily Marden, Holly Longstaff, and EdLevy Fields of Pharmas: Plant Molecular Farming 6 The Emerging Technology of Plant Molecular Farming/ Michele Veeman 7 Policy and Regulatory Challenges for Plant-MadePharmaceuticals in the United States / Patrick A.Stewart 8 Forestalling Liabilities? Stakeholder Participation andRegulatory Development / Stuart Smyth In the Stem Cell Fields 9 When Human Dignity Is Not Enough: Embryonic Stem CellResearch and Human Cloning in Canada / Tania Bubela andTimothy Caulfield Drugs -- Up Close and Personal: EngagingPharmacogenomics 10 Banking on Trust: Issues of Informed Consent inPharmacogenetic Research / Rose Geransar 11 Pharmacogenomic Promises: Reflections on Semantics,Genohype, and Global Justice / Bryn Williams-Jones and VuralOzdemir 12 Envisioning Race and Medicine: BiDil and the InsufficientMatch between Social Groups and Genotypes / Benjamin R.Bates Is Small Really Beautiful? Does Size Matter?Nanotechnologies 13 Nanotechnology and Human Imagination / SusannaHornig Priest 14 Nanotechnology: The Policy Challenges / LorraineSheremeta Part 3: Governance Challenges and EmergingTechnologies 15 Technology, Democracy, and Ethics: Democratic Deficit andthe Ethics of Public Engagement / Michael Burgess and JamesTansey 16 Impact Assessments and Emerging Technologies: FromPrecaution to "Smart Regulation"? / JacopoTorriti 17 Technology Ownership and Governance: An Alternative View ofIPRs / Peter W.B. Phillips 18 Conclusion: Reflections on Emerging Technologies/ Edna F. Einsiedel Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines current theory, methods, and ethics underlying global trends in involving publics in the governance of new technologies.Table of ContentsIntroductionKieran O’Doherty and Edna EinsiedelPart 1: The Purpose and Function of Public Participation1 Giving Power to Public Voice: A Critical Review of Alternative Means of Infusing Citizen Deliberation with Legal Authority or Influence / John Gastil2 Parliamentary Technology Assessment in Europe and the Role of Public Participation / Leonhard Hennen3 Democracy, Governance, and Public Engagement: A Critical Assessment / Peter W.B. PhillipsPart 2: External Conditions for Legitimate Public Engagement: Ethics, Society, and Democracy4 Trust, Accountability, and Participation: Conditions for and Constraints on “New” Democratic Models / Susan Dodds5 Public Voices or Private Choices? The Role of Public Consultation in the Regulation of Reproductive Technologies / Colin Gavaghan6 Challenges to Deliberations on Genomics / Michiel KorthalsPart 3: Internal Conditions for Legitimate Public Engagement: Lessons for the Practitioner7 Deliberative Fears: Citizen Deliberation about Science in a National Consensus Conference / Michael D. Cobb8 Theorizing Deliberative Discourse / Kieran O’DohertyPart 4: Institutional Contexts of Public Participation9 Public Engagement and Knowledge Mobilization in Public and Private Policy / David Castle10 From Public Engagement to Public Policy: Competing Stakeholders and the Path to Law Reform / David Weisbrot11 Participation in the Canadian Biotechnology Regulatory Regime é Andrea Riccardo Migone and Michael HowlettPart 5: Modes of and Experiments in Participation12 Swimming with Salmon: The Use of Journalism to Public Engagement Initiatives on Emerging Biotechnologies é David M. Secko13 Science Media and Public Participation: The Potential of Drama-Documentaries / Grace Reid14 N-Reasons: Computer-Mediated Ethical Decision Support for Public Participation / Peter Danielson15 Contentious New Technology Introductions and e-Participation / Keith CulverPart 6: Understanding Stakeholders and Publics16 Rethinking “Publics” and “Participation” in New Governance Contexts: Stakeholder Publics and Extended Forms of Participation / Edna Einsiedel17 Public Engagement with Human Genetics: A Social Movement Approach / Alexandra Plows18 The Limits of Liberal Values in the Moral Assessment of Genomic and Technological Innovation / Chloë G.K. AtkinsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis timely volume explores how Canadian political institutions, the media, and citizens are adapting to a fast-evolving media environment and the effects this is having on Canadian democracy.Trade Review...the book offers to a range of interested readers an engaging array of studies of recent media data that are presented in a coherent and focused manner. Such a cutting-edge collection will surely prove to be indispensable reading for researchers in political science, media, communication, Canadian studies, and other fields for many years to come. -- Rachelle Vessey, Newcastle University * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsPart 1: Communication by Canadian Political Institutions1 The Triangulation of Canadian Political Communication / Tamara A. Small, Thierry Giasson, and Alex Marland2 The Governing Party and the Permanent Campaign / Anna Esselment3 Cognitive Effects of Televised Political Advertising in Canada / Pénélope Daignault4 The Branding of a Prime Minister: Digital Information Subsidies and the Image Management of Stephen Harper / Alex Marland5 Selling Social Democracy: Branding the Political Left in Canada / Jared J. Wesley and Mike Moyes6 The Not-So Social Network: The Use of Twitter by Canada’s Party Leaders / Tamara A. SmallPart 2: Canadian Political News Media7 The Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery: Still Relevant or Relic of Another Time? / Daniel J. Paré and Susan Delacourt8 Setting the Agenda? A Case Study of Newspaper Coverage of the 2006 Canadian Election Campaign / Elisabeth Gidengil9 Playing along New Rules: Personalized Politics in a 24/7 Mediated World / Mireille Lalancette, with Alex Drouin and Catherine Lemarier-Saulnier10 The Mass Media and Welfare Policy Framing: A Study in Policy Definition / Adam Mahon, Andrea Lawlor, and Stuart SorokaPart 3: Political Communication and Canadian Citizens11 Opportunities Missed: Non-Profit Public Communication and Advocacy in Canada / Georgina C. Grosenick12 Blogging, Partisanship, and Political Participation in Canada / Thierry Giasson, Harold Jansen, and Royce Koop13 “We Like This”: The Impact of News Websites’ Consensus Information on Political Attitudes / J. Scott Matthews and Denver McNeney14 Political Communication and Marketing in Canada: Challenges for Democracy / Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, and Tamara A. SmallGlossary; References; Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisLong considered a natural wonder, the world’s most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls.Trade ReviewMacfarlane has crafted an exemplary work of scholarship. -- Donald C. Jackson, Lafayette College * Technology and Culture *Historians and general readers interested in the Falls and in issues connected with the associated technological and political background will appreciate this work. -- A.M. Strauss, Vanderbilt University * CHOICE *Fixing Niagara Falls is an excellent monograph that cleverly analyzes how engineering interventions and human hubris helped make the Niagara Falls that we are familiar with today. -- Clarence Hatton-Proulx * NiCHE *"… Macfarlane’s great contribution is to provide a comprehensive account of the creation of the engineering complex at Niagara Falls…" -- Mark Sholdice, King’s University College at Western University * Ontario Historical Society Review *With this carefully researched study, we find in Niagara Falls a locus of past concerns that reverberate today: the realities of appropriation, the hubristic underbelly of "green" energy, the politics of energy transitions and exports, the power struggles between provincial, state, and federal governments. -- Kyle Wyatt * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsForeword: Iconic Falls, Contrived Landscapes, and Tantalizing OpportunitiesGraeme WynnIntroduction: Characterizing Niagara1 Harnessing Niagara: Developments up to the Twentieth Century2 Saving Niagara: Innovation and Change in the Early Twentieth Century3 Negotiating Niagara: Environmental Diplomacy and the 1950 Treaty4 Empowering Niagara: Diversions and Generating Stations5 Disguising Niagara: The Horseshoe Falls Waterscape6 Preserving Niagara: The American Falls CampaignConclusion: Fabricating NiagaraNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisOffers professional and executive-level insight into trends and potential technological advances in the field of medicine. This book covers topics ranging from: fundamental advances in computing and administration, research, nursing, and patient care delivery to non-invasive surgery, bio-molecular therapies, bionics, and more.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors v About the References and Notes ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Part 1 Trends in Technology Chapter 1 The Rate of Change 3 Chapter 2 Fundamental Trends in Technology 17 Chapter 3 Trends in Administration and Control 43 Chapter 4 Advances in Research Methods 69 Chapter 5 Emerging Products and Services 97 Chapter 6 Androids and Cyborgs 121 Chapter 7 Preparing for the Future 139 Part 2 Professional Perspectives Chapter 8 The Process of the Health Care Encounter 155 Chapter 9 Impact of Technology on Nursing Care 181 Chapter 10 Hospitals and the Forces of Change 193 Chapter 11 A Payer's Perspective on the Future 209 Chapter 12 Leadership, Followship, and Science 231 Chapter 13 Epilogue: A Postscript on Progress 251 Index 255

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Book SynopsisThis collection of influential essays illustrates the range, depth, and importance of moral realism, the fundamental issues it raises, and the problems it faces.

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Book SynopsisSandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we...Trade ReviewWhose Science, Whose Knowledge? represents a transition from gender to power considerations in Harding's continuous efforts to raise questions about the theory and practice of science. -- Shulamit Reinharz * Gender & Society *Harding's account offers a good insight into a variety of feminist responses to the hegemony apparently exercised by scientific thinking. Some readers will take the book as a challenge to the sociology of science to examine its arguments and assumptions in the light of standpoint theory and feminist postmodernism. -- Steven Yearley * British Journal of Sociology *This is an important book that has much to offer practicing scientists but probably will not be read by many of them. That is a shame, because its bold claims are usefully unsettling and its argument begs for engagement. One of the basic messages of Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?—that all fields of natural science are best analyzed from within the social sciences, of which they are logically a part, rather than taken as external models for the social sciences—has potential consequences for most, perhaps all, scientific practice. -- Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research * Science *

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Book SynopsisThe first systematic study of the aesthetic evaluations that scientists pass on their theories.Trade ReviewA valuable, important, persuasively argued book. Highly recommended. * Choice *This is a great book. It clearly and concisely does what it sets out to do: it examines the basic philosophical and sociological theories of the role of aesthetics in science, it identifies the critical assumptions and contradictions that differentiate these views, and it provides a carefully reasoned, well-documented and novel approach to the issues. Best of all, the book is eminently readable. Anyone interested in the bases of scientific controversies, the nature of scientific revolutions, or the similarities and differences between the sciences and the arts should definitely read McAllister's book. It may prove to be as fundamental as Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. * American Scientist *

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Book SynopsisAbout half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in these highly competitive (and often male-dominated) fields with the demands of motherhood. Although this issue directly affects the career advancement of women scientists, it is rarely discussed as a professional concern, leaving individuals to face the dilemma on their own. To address this obvious but unacknowledged crisisthe elephant in the laboratory, according to one scientistEmily Monosson, an independent toxicologist, has brought together 34 women scientists from overlapping generations and several fields of researchincluding physics, chemistry, geography, paleontology, and ecology, among othersto share their experiences. From women who began their careers in the 1970s andTrade ReviewEmily Monosson has edited a very interesting book. She has collected essays written by 34 female scientists on how they managed to combine being a scientist with being a mother. It is regrettable that the subject of this book has continued to be relevant despite many decades of struggle by scientists to find a balance between work and family. The problem remains unsolved. -- Alice L. Givan * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *In these heartrending essays, women who are well-trained and well-situated in science detail the compromises they have made in order to raise children and be scientists.... The women who succeed—and there are many in this volume—are those whose partners take an equal share of the responsibility for raising a family and making the household function. * American Scientist *Women trying to squeeze a career and family duties into one 24-hour day will gain much affirmation from this collection of essays. The writers, who all balance science careers and motherhood, provide a fascinating insight into a world too often kept hidden. For those without children it should come with a health warning: the juggling and compromises these women have learned to live with may add up to a sobering reality check for those who still think they can have it all. For some it may prove a powerful contraceptive. * New Scientist *Table of ContentsIntroductionSection I. 1970sBalancing Family and Career Demands with 20/20 Hindsight by Aviva BrecherExtreme Motherhood: You Can't Get There from Here by Joan S. BaizerCareers versus Child Care in Academia by Deborah RossIdentities: Looking Back over Forty Years as a Social Scientist, Woman, and Mother by Marilyn Wilkey MerrittCosts and Rewards of Success in Academia, or Bouncing into the Rubber Ceiling by Marla S. McIntoshOne Set of Choices as a Mom and Scientist by Suzanne EpsteinSection II. 1980sThree Sides of the Balance by Anne DouglassThe Accidental Astronomer by Stefi BaumAt Home with Toxicology: A Career Evolves by Emily MonossonGeological Consulting and Kids: An Unpredictable Balancing Act? by Debra HannemanCareer Scientists and the Shared Academic Position by Carol B. de WetSection III. 1990sLess Pay, a Little Less Work by Heidi NewbergReflections of a Female Scientist with Outside Interests by Christine SeroogyPart-Time at a National Laboratory: A Split Life by Rebecca A. EfroymsonThe Eternal Quest for Balance: A Career in Five Acts, No Intermission by Theresa M. WizemannReflections on Motherhood and Science by Teresa Capone CookThe Benefits of Four-Dumbbell Support by Catherine O'RiordanExtraordinary Commitments of Time and Energy by Deborah HarrisFinding My Way Back to the Bench: An Unexpectedly Satisfying Destination by A. Pia AbolaMothering Primates by Devin ReeseFinding the Right Balance, Personal and Professional, as a Mother in Science by Gayle Barbin ZydlewskiWhat? I Don't Need a PhD to Potty-Train My Children? by Nanette J. PazdernikVariety, Challenge, and Flexibility: The Benefits of Straying from the Narrow Path by Marguerite ToscanoThe Balancing Act by Kim M. FowlerJuggling through Life’s Transitions by Cal Baier-AndersonHaving It All, Just Not All at the Same Time by Andrea L. KalfoglouSection IV. 2000sExploring Less-Traveled Paths by Deborah DuffyStanding Up by Gina D. Wesley-HuntBecause of Our Mom, a True Rocket Scientist by Elizabeth Douglass and Katherine DouglassOn Being What You Love by Rachel ObbardParsimony Is What We Are Taught, Not What We Live by Sofia Katerina Refetoff ZahedRole Models: Out with the Old and In with the New by Marie RemikerPursuing Science and Motherhood by Kimberly D’AnnaConclusion Contributors

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Book SynopsisThought-provoking and controversial, Lawless Universe is a complement to, even an antidote for, books that create the misimpression that science can explain everything.Trade ReviewDr. Rosen knocks down the structure of good science and rebuilds it for the reader, brick by brick, beginning with the most basic differences between objectivity and subjectivity. And through topics that might otherwise leave readers feeling adrift-like quantum theory, metaphysics, and the anthropic principle-Dr. Rosen proves a calm, conscientious guide who sticks by the reader's side. GW Magazine/GW Today 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. Objective or Subjective: That Is the QuestionObjective and SubjectiveThe Objective Outer World: RealityOur Subjective Inner Worlds: FantasiesObjective or Subjective?Objective TruthSubjective TruthLogical TruthDealing with the SubjectiveDealing with the Objective2. The Science of Nature and the Nature of SciencePreliminariesScienceNatureReproducibilityPredictabilityLaw3. Theory: Explanation, Not SpeculationTheoryLogical Implication and Objective TruthGenerality and FundamentalityNaturalityCausationSimplicity and UnificationBeautyFalsifiabilityAn Archetypal Example4. Is Science the Whole Story?Science and MetaphysicsTranscendence and Nontranscendence5. Our Unique UniverseThe Lawless UniverseCosmology6. Nature's LawsRealism and IdealismReductionism and HolismObserver and ObservedQuasi-Isolated System and SurroundingsInitial State and Law of EvolutionExtended Mach PrincipleWhence Order?7. Facing the UniverseHuman ScienceAnthropic PrincipleWhence Order? (Again)Space and Time8. The Hunt for RealityMetaphysical PositionsObjective RealityPerceived RealityPartially Hidden RealityTranscendent RealityCodaGlossaryCombined BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisInsurgency Online shows that online activism is a ripe, new territory for non-governmental actors to raise awareness and develop support around the world.Table of ContentsForeword by Arthur Kroker Acknowledgments * Introduction: Insurgency Online and Conflict in the Global-scape * Insurgency Online as Networking: IRSM Web Activism * Insurgency Online as Global Witnessing: The Web Activism of RAWA * Insurgency Online as Media Relay: The Web Activism of the MRTA * Conclusion: Web Activism - A Messenger That Shapes Perceptions Appendix 1 Methodology of Insurgency Online Appendix 2 Some of the Restrictions Imposed by the Taliban on Women in Afghanistan Appendix 3 Translation of the Du'a of Sheikh Muhammed Al Mohaisany Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInsurgency Online shows that online activism is a ripe, new territory for non-governmental actors to raise awareness and develop support around the world.Table of ContentsForeword by Arthur Kroker Acknowledgments * Introduction: Insurgency Online and Conflict in the Global-scape * Insurgency Online as Networking: IRSM Web Activism * Insurgency Online as Global Witnessing: The Web Activism of RAWA * Insurgency Online as Media Relay: The Web Activism of the MRTA * Conclusion: Web Activism - A Messenger That Shapes Perceptions Appendix 1 Methodology of Insurgency Online Appendix 2 Some of the Restrictions Imposed by the Taliban on Women in Afghanistan Appendix 3 Translation of the Du'a of Sheikh Muhammed Al Mohaisany Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNurses have used a variety of tools, instruments and machines to appraise, treat and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from 1870 to the present, this text shows that technology has helped shape dilemmas in nursing and advance the profession's development.

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Book SynopsisEileen Reeves examines the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly newsheets, the invention of the Dutch telescope, and the appearance of Galileo Galilei's astronomical treatise, The Starry Messenger.Trade Review"Delving deep into the archives, Reeves seems preternaturally capable of hearing the minutest echoes." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A magisterial book that will appeal to readers interested in early modern cultural and social history as well as the history of science and astronomy. Eileen Reeves shows how the dark room, the spyglass, and the telescope offered material for describing all the known and less known features of information in the early seventeenth century, from speed to tardiness, from accuracy to unreliability, from exclusivity to intermediation." * Filippo De Vivo, Birkbeck College, University of London *"Evening News convincingly demonstrates the entanglement of journalism and the news with optics and astronomy. Discovered snippets of private correspondence and other minute pieces of text, close readings of these passages, and connections to historical contexts manifest the author's impressive erudition." * Sven Dupré, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science *

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Book SynopsisHow can historical developments and discoveries be used to affect future outcomes? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the “Axial Age,” a period in the first millennium BCE when major religious and intellectual developments emerged, can be used to directly affect present social problems, from economic inequality to ecological destruction. Trade Review"As usual, John Torpey's new book is concisely written, and filled with interesting bits of information and lucid observations … I'm sure it will attract interest and favorable attention." -- R. S. Ratner * Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of British Columbia *"The boldness and contemporary relevance of arguments like these are what make this small book an enjoyable and 'teachable' tool for sociologists and historians." * Sociology of Religion *"For those wondering how recent work on economic and social history bears on the received wisdom of historical sociology, Torpey weaves together a compelling new narrative. [The book] seeks a balance between the pessimistic vision of human history that typically prevails within sociology and the more optimistic view that is characteristic of economics. Torpey does not downplay the perils of the present moment, but he is also attuned to its promise." * Sociological Forum *Interview with John Torpey on New Books Network * New Books Network *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction 1 1. The Moral Axial Age 7 2. The Material Axial Age 33 3. The Mental Axial Age 50 Notes 79 Index 97

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Book SynopsisTechnology and Engagement explores how first generation college students use social media, aimed at improving their transition to and engagement with their university. This ‘ecology of transition’ is important in keeping them focused on why they were in college, and helped them become more integrated into the university setting. Trade Review"The timing of this book could not be better with its focus on first generation college students and social media. It is an empirically-driven and worthwhile read for administrators, faculty, and staff at institutions of higher education in the U.S.” -- Kim Nehls * executive director of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) *“Increasing college completion, particularly among first-generation, low-income, and minoritized students is critically urgent and Technology and Engagement provides 'scalable' ideas. That is the good news. The bad news is that faculty and administrators have not figured out the many ways in which technology can be leveraged to increase retention. This book shows that technology can be a 'best practice' that can lessen the alienation minoritized first generation students experience in campuses that are not structured for their success. This book offers practical and culturally responsive strategies. It should be required reading for all staff and faculty associated with special programs." -- Estela Mara Bensimon * professor and director, Center for Urban Education *"Selected New Books on Higher Education: How to Ease the Way for Transgender and First-Generation Students" by Ruth Hammond mention * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Engagement and Campus Capital 23 2. Being First-Gen on Campus 48 3. Web 2.0 Technologies on Campus 66 with contributions by Adam Gismondi, Kevin Gin, Sarah Knight, Jonathan Lewis, & Scott Radimer 4. Transition and Campus Engagement 96 with contributions by Kevin Gin & Scott Radimer 5. Bridges to Campus Capital in the Classroom 118 with contributions by Jonathan Lewis & Sarah Knight 6. Propositions for Change 141 with contributions by Kevin Gin Acknowledgments 163 Appendix: Research Methods 165 References 171 Index 191

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Book SynopsisExamines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Focusing on the period from the mid-1990s to approximately 2010, Jonathan Cohn argues that automated recommendations and algorithms are far from natural, neutral, or benevolent.Trade Review"Suffused with nuance and aplomb, Jonathan Cohn’s The Burden of Choice details the asymmetries of power and disputed logics of contemporary algorithmic culture—an outstanding contribution to digital studies." -- John Cheney-Lippold * author of We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves *"Algorithmic recommendations aren’t politically neutral. But, as Cohn details in this illuminating book, nor is their power absolute. The Burden of Choice is a primer on algorithmic dissidence, couched in a history of computational decision making." -- Ted Striphas * author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control *“Fascinating and timely, this exciting book explores the history of algorithms, recommendations, and suggestions.” -- Chuck Tryon * author of On-Demand Culture: Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies *"Google’s algorithms discriminate against women and people of colour," by Jonathan Cohn * The Conversation *"Tired of Those Netflix and Amazon ‘Recommendations’? Outwit the Algorithm," by Rebecca Dolan https://www.wsj.com/articles/tired-of-those-netflix-and-amazon-recommendations-outwit-the-algorithm-11562776566?mod=searchresultspage=1pos=1 * Wall Street Journal *"In navigating the terrain of user agency and its subversive potential, this book adds another dimension to the literature on critical information studies." * Television and New Media *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Data Fields of Dreams 1 A Brief History of Good Choices 2 Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes and the Birth of Recommendation Systems and Social Networking Technologies 3 Mapping the Stars: TiVo, Netflix, and Digg’s Digital Media Distribution and Talking Back to Algorithms 4 Love’s Labor’s Logged: The Weird Science of Matchmaking Systems and Its Parodies 5 The Mirror Phased: Virtual Cosmetic Surgeries, Beautification Engines, and the Embodied Recommendation Conclusion: On Handling Toddlers and Structuring the Limits of Knowledge Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExamines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Focusing on the period from the mid-1990s to approximately 2010, Jonathan Cohn argues that automated recommendations and algorithms are far from natural, neutral, or benevolent.Trade Review"Suffused with nuance and aplomb, Jonathan Cohn’s The Burden of Choice details the asymmetries of power and disputed logics of contemporary algorithmic culture—an outstanding contribution to digital studies." -- John Cheney-Lippold * author of We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves *"Algorithmic recommendations aren’t politically neutral. But, as Cohn details in this illuminating book, nor is their power absolute. The Burden of Choice is a primer on algorithmic dissidence, couched in a history of computational decision making." -- Ted Striphas * author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control *“Fascinating and timely, this exciting book explores the history of algorithms, recommendations, and suggestions.” -- Chuck Tryon * author of On-Demand Culture: Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies *"Google’s algorithms discriminate against women and people of colour," by Jonathan Cohn * The Conversation *"Tired of Those Netflix and Amazon ‘Recommendations’? Outwit the Algorithm," by Rebecca Dolan https://www.wsj.com/articles/tired-of-those-netflix-and-amazon-recommendations-outwit-the-algorithm-11562776566?mod=searchresultspage=1pos=1 * Wall Street Journal *"In navigating the terrain of user agency and its subversive potential, this book adds another dimension to the literature on critical information studies." * Television and New Media *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Data Fields of Dreams 1 A Brief History of Good Choices 2 Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes and the Birth of Recommendation Systems and Social Networking Technologies 3 Mapping the Stars: TiVo, Netflix, and Digg’s Digital Media Distribution and Talking Back to Algorithms 4 Love’s Labor’s Logged: The Weird Science of Matchmaking Systems and Its Parodies 5 The Mirror Phased: Virtual Cosmetic Surgeries, Beautification Engines, and the Embodied Recommendation Conclusion: On Handling Toddlers and Structuring the Limits of Knowledge Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"These are crucial manifestos that changed the discourse and clarified our situation in the postmodern in stunning and beautiful ways. That we are animal and machine and human and full of potential is Donna Haraway’s enduring and inspirational message."—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora and the Mars trilogy "Here Donna Haraway’s manifestos are marvelously composted in the rich humus of reflection, erudition, and reasons for laughter that makes thinking with other people so generative. The brilliance that sparks between Cary Wolfe and Haraway illuminates everything that is between, around, underneath, and beside two most profound moments in critical thought."—Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge "Donna Haraway’s essays are invitations to scientists, artists, and everyone-who-must-improvise for respectful play with chimeras, hybrids, cyborgs, GMOs, holobionts, mosaics, allies, and fusions. They are invitations to generate new creative relationships for flourishing during and after the Anthropocene. As always, when presented with essays by Haraway, accept the invitation at the risk of becoming a different person."—Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College"The social relations of science was a whole movement in the 1930s...It did not survive the cold war purges of intellectual life. Science studies has reinvented many of its themes and in many ways improved upon them. Yet perhaps, as Haraway once noted in passing, the “liberal mystification that all started with Thomas Kuhn…” has erased a little too much of its radical past. We are very fortunate that Donna Haraway and her kith reinvented it."—Public Seminar"Unusual and exciting. Every word adds a new detail, facet, nuance, reflection, to an infinitely detailed, faceted, nuanced reality."—London Review of Books"Manifestly Haraway is a timely and necessary publication in response to our own political moment if we are to link up with past failures, and explore new affinities for the future."—Arcadia"Widely influential."—Science Fiction Studies"Important, feminist, bio-political work."—Annals of Science "Manifestly Haraway is illuminating and engaging. Donna Haraway contextualizes the manifestos and considers how some of these early ideas are developing alongside fresh concepts and influences." —SociologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction Cary WolfeThe ManifestosA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant OthernessCompanions in ConversationDonna J. Haraway and Cary WolfeAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Science in the Gap, Part I. The Virtual in Time and Space, 1. The Insistence of the Virtual in Science and the History of Philosophy, by Arnaud Villani, 2. Superposing Images: Deleuze and the Virtual after Bergson’s Critique of Science, by Peter Gaffney, 3. The Intense Space(s) of Gilles Deleuze, by Thomas Kelso, Part II. Science and Process, 4. Interstitial Life: Remarks on Causality and Purpose in Biology, by Steven Shaviro, 5. Digital Ontology and Example, by Aden Evens, 6. Virtual Architecture, by Manola Antonioli, Part III. Science and Subjectivity, 7. The Subject of Chaos, by Gregory Flaxman, 8. Elemental Complexity and Relational Vitality: The Relevance of Nomadic Thought for Contemporary Science by Rosi Braidotti, 9. Numbers and Fractals: Neuroaesthetics and the Scientific Subject by Patricia Pisters, Part IV. Science and the Brain, 10. The Image of Thought and the Sciences of the Brain after What Is Philosophy?, by Arkady Plotnitsky, 11. Deleuze, Guattari, and Neuroscience, by Andrew Murphie, 12. Mammalian Mathematicians, by lark Bailey, Afterword: The Metaphysics of Science: An Interview with Manuel DeLanda Manuel DeLanda and Peter Gaffney, Contributors, Index

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Book SynopsisHow biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with deathTrade Review"Broadening biopower beyond its Nazi encampments in order to build a critique of liberalism, Timothy C. Campbell argues that modern politics captures life through invasive technologies of communication and consumption that promise protection from mortality, disability, boredom, and loneliness. Campbell links mass media and bioengineering to the birth of a global petty bourgeoisie defined by a terrifying lack of distance and the relentless dismantling of community. This compelling, powerfully argued book should be read by anyone interested in the futures of collective life in the age of smart bombs and cloud computing." —Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and LifeTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Bíos between Thanatos and Technē1. Divisions of the Proper: Heidegger, Technology, and the Biopolitical2. The Dispositifs of Thanatopolitics: Improper Writing and Life 3. Barely Breathing: Sloterdijk’s Immunitary Biopolitics4. Practicing Bíos: Attention and Play as TechnēNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOff the Network is a fresh and authoritative examination of how the hidden logic of the Internet, social media, and the digital network is changing users’ understanding of the world—and why that should worry us. Ulises Ali Mejias suggests how we might begin to rethink the logic of the network and question its ascendancy. Trade Review"Interesting and insightful."—Technical Communication"Scholars of Internet- mediated communication and technology should read this, since it challenges the popular framework of the Internet."—International Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Thinking the Network1. The Network as Method for Organizing the World2. The Privatization of Social Life3. Computers as Socializing Tools4. Acting Inside and Outside the NetworkPart II. Unthinking the Network5. Strategies for Unmapping Networks6. Proximity and Conflict7. Collaboration and FreedomPart III. Intensifying the Network8. The Limits of Liberation Technologies9. The Outside of Networks as Method for Acting in the WorldNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The translation of Italian philosopher Davide Tarizzo’s Life is a cause for celebration. Tarizzo goes where others haven’t in order to ask the following question: when did we actually become alive? His answer is deeply unsettling. Part political philosophy, part genealogy of aliveness, part faithfully radical account of Darwinian evolution, Tarizzo has written a vertiginous reflection on what it truly means to be ‘savagely’ alive—in other words, biopolitics 2.0. Not to be missed."—Timothy Campbell, Cornell University"In this outstanding book, the biological paradigm of modern life is traced back, probably for the first time, to its philosophical and metaphysical sources. By connecting Darwin's dangerous idea with those of Kant's and Schelling's, Davide Tarizzo raises the most challenging questions about our future of living beings."—Roberto Esposito, author of Bíos: Biopolitics and PhilosophyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: A Savage Ontology1. Modernity: The Threshold of Autonomy2. Life: Genesis of a Metaphysical Paradigm3. Us: On the Use and Abuse of Life for HistoryTranslator’s AcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis The word “biology” was first used to describe the scientific study of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates in his reconstruction of the genealogy of the concept of life, our understanding of what being alive means is an equally recent invention. Focusing on the histories of philosophy, science, and biopolitics, he contends that biological life is a metaphysical concept, not a scientific one, and that this notion has gradually permeated both European and Anglophone traditions of thought over the past two centuries. Building on the work undertaken by Foucault in the 1960s and ‘70s, Tarizzo analyzes the slow transformation of eighteenth-century naturalism into a nineteenth-century science of life, exploring the philosophical landscape that engendered biology and precipitated the work of such foundational figures as Georges Cuvier and Charles Darwin. Tarizzo tracks three interrelated themes: first, that the metaphysics of biological life isTrade Review "The translation of Italian philosopher Davide Tarizzo’s Life is a cause for celebration. Tarizzo goes where others haven’t in order to ask the following question: when did we actually become alive? His answer is deeply unsettling. Part political philosophy, part genealogy of aliveness, part faithfully radical account of Darwinian evolution, Tarizzo has written a vertiginous reflection on what it truly means to be ‘savagely’ alive—in other words, biopolitics 2.0. Not to be missed."—Timothy Campbell, Cornell University "In this outstanding book, the biological paradigm of modern life is traced back, probably for the first time, to its philosophical and metaphysical sources. By connecting Darwin's dangerous idea with those of Kant's and Schelling's, Davide Tarizzo raises the most challenging questions about our future of living beings."—Roberto Esposito, author of Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy Table of ContentsContents Introduction: A Savage Ontology 1. Modernity: The Threshold of Autonomy 2. Life: Genesis of a Metaphysical Paradigm 3. Us: On the Use and Abuse of Life for History Translator’s Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents The Participatory Condition: An Introduction Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, and Tamar Tembeck Part I: The Politics of Participation: 1. Power as Participation's Master Signifier Nico Carpentier 2. Participation as Ideology in Occupy Wall Street Cayley Sorochan 3: From TuniLeaks to Bassem Youssef: Revolutionary Media in the Arab World Jillian C. York 4. Think Outside the Boss: Cooperative Alternatives for the Post-Internet Age Trebor Scholz Part II. Openness 5. Paradoxes of Participation Christina Dunbar-Hester 6. Participatory Design and the Open Source Voice Graham Pullin 7. Open Source Cancer: Brain Scans and the Rituality of Biodigital Data Sharing Alessandro Delfanti and Salvatore Iaconesi 8. Internet-Mediated Mutual Cooperation Practices: The Sharing of Material and Immaterial Resources Bart Cammaerts Part III. Participation under Surveillance 9. Big Urban Data and Shrinking Civic Space: The Statistical City Meets the Simulated City Kate Crawford 10. The Pacification of Interactivity Mark Andrejevic 11. The Surveillance–Innovation Complex: The Irony of the Participatory Turn Julie E. Cohen Part IV. Participation and Aisthesis: 12. Preparations for a Haunting: Notes toward an Indigenous Future Imaginary Jason Edward Lewis 13. Participatory Situations: The Dialogical Art of Instant Narrative by Dora García Rudolf Frieling 14. The Formation of New Reason: Seven Proposals for the Renewal of Education Bernard Stiegler 15. Zoom Pavilion Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Krzysztof Wodiczko Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The object of this remarkable, groundbreaking book is as elegant as it is profound—to provide us with a radically objective account of the digital objects that populate our world, both on- and offline. On the Existence of Digital Objects is a truly innovative and philosophically grounded ‘object oriented ontology’ that is designed for and can scale to the increasingly complex orders of magnitude confronted in the twenty-first century."—David J. Gunkel, author of The Machine Question"Hui adeptly blends his technical training and philosophical knowledge to address a fundamental question: what is the relationship between technological and humanistic concerns?"—Public Books"Hui unveils the political agenda of “bringing society together” where “techniques can be re-inscribed in culture”, conducted through a clear and documented essay."—Neural"Hui’s project is remarkable for a conceptual engagement with twentieth-century philosophies of technology (Simondon, Heidegger, Husserl, Stiegler, Ellul) that pushes these theories further by confronting them with questions of the digital."—Radical PhilosophyTable of ContentsContentsForewordBernard StieglerIntroduction: Outline of an Investigation on Digital ObjectsPart I. Objects1. The Genesis of Digital Objects2. Digital Objects and OntologiesPart II. Relations3. The Space of Networks4. The Time of Technical SystemsPart III. Logics5. Logic and Object6. Logic and TimeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning,' this title offers an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God.Trade Review“A well-researched, engagingly written, rich, and enlightening study.”—Deanna Shemek, author of Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy“This is a superlative and highly inventive piece of scholarship.”—Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, author of The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista VicoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Monstrous Matter Chapter 2: Monstrous Machines Chapter 3: Medicine and the Mechanical Body Chapter 4: Vico’s Monstrous Body Chapter 5: Monstrous Metaphor Afterword Notes Works Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting a reconstruction of ideas from the history of philosophy, science, and mathematics, this work shows that embedded in Lakatos's work is a historical philosophy rooted in his Hungarian past. It reveals that he introduced transformations of Hegelian and Marxist ideas about historiography, skepticism, criticism, and rationality.Trade Review“I have rarely encountered a book with as many fresh and arresting ideas from so many seemingly disparate intellectual and historical contexts. With wit, verve, and concision, Kadvany combines an impressive command of the traditions of philosophy, science, mathematics, and economic theory with an impassioned and insightful mastery of the history of Hungary during the Communist era.”—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley“Not merely a uniquely insightful account of the life and work of one of this century’s most original philosophers, this book provides a glimpse of a vanished intellectual world, that of Middle Europe before the catastrophes. Finding Georg Lukács and Hegel in Lakatos does more than elucidate Lakatos’s thought; it provides us with an entry to a whole different intellectual style. As interpreted by Kadvany, Lakatos functions as a sort of Rosetta Stone to that brilliant but now quite foreign intellectual culture. A brilliant tour de force.”—Jerome Ravetz, author of Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems“An important contribution to the literature on Lakatos. It provides significant insights into the background, nature, import and implications of Lakatos’ thought. . . .The most important book that has appeared on Lakatos’ work to date, and it contains much that is novel and of real interest and importance to philosophers and mathematicians. Every university library should have a copy.” -- Paul Ernest * Mathematical Reviews *“Extremely stimulating . . . . It should provoke a reevaluation of Lakatos’s work (especially on the history of mathematics), providing an answer to anyone who regards it as philosophically naive. It may also provide a route whereby those for whom German philosophy has been a largely closed book can begin to understand something of Hegel.” -- Roger E. Backhouse * History of Political Economy *"Challenging and appealing. . . . Kadvany’s analysis is rich, broad, and articulated. . . . The book is well written, eminently readable, and stands out as a major contribution between the boundaries of continental and Anglo-American philosophy of science and mathematics." -- Matteo Motterlini * Philosophia Mathematica *"In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason, John Kadvany demonstrates the overwhelming importance of Lakatos's Hungarian background, and thereby also explains and illuminates Lakatos's philosophy. Kadvany's exposition does much to clarify and explain Lakatos's philosophy, thereby enhancing his reputation and also making his work, much of it still of vital significance, more accessible to a new public." -- Jerome R. Ravetz * Inquiry *Table of ContentsAnalytic Contents Preface I. A Mathematical Bildungsroman 1. The Mathematical Present as History 2. The Method of Proofs and Refutations 3. Mathematical Skepticism 4. Between Formal and Informal 5. Reason Inverted II. A Changing Logic of Scientific Discovery 6. Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend, Lakatos 7. An Historiographical Toolkit 8. Contradiction and Hindsight 9. Reason in History 10. A Changing Logic 11. Classical Political Economy as a Research Programme III. Magyarország / Hungary 12. Hungary 1956 and the Inverted World Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft - the TSR2. Offering numerous insights into the way we theorise the working of systems, this title explores the overlaps between singularity and multiplicity and reveals rich new meaning in such concepts as oscillation, interference, fractionality, and rhizomatic networks.Trade Review“Through this lively text, John Law guides us on a tour of the TSR2 that will be a rich resource for anyone interested in the question of how new artifacts come into being. Writers, readers, engineers, and aircraft are inseparable components of the project, which involves simultaneously achieving the singularities and recovering the multiplicities of stories and things. Crafting together a complex architecture of subject/object relations, Aircraft Stories offers a prototype for a new form of technoscience storytelling.”—Lucy Suchman, author of Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication“What is a military aircraft? John Law shows in his beautiful analysis that it is a constant oscillation between multiplicity and singularity. It (sometimes) flies, it (possibly) drops nuclear bombs, it (certainly) reproduces a very conservative social order, it interpellates and entices young men, and yet it still remains a military aircraft. John Law invents what could be a monadology in which there is no longer preestablished harmony.”—Michel Callon, CSI Ecole des mines de Paris"[Law] writes well, sometimes almost poetically, with few of the tortured sentences of much cultural theory. Many readers may disagree with his theses, but few will fail to be stimulated by this brave, challenging book." -- Donald MacKenzie * American Journal of Sociology *"Law's illustration of the singularity/multiplicity of artifacts (especially in the context of the many strands of social theory on which he draws) lends depth to any understanding of the social character of technology. His readers are invited, I think, to pull some of the more valuable jottings from his pinboard and interweave them in their own montages." -- Cyrus C. M. Mody * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Objects 3. Subjects 4. Cultures 5. Heterogeneities 6. Aesthetics 7. Decisions 8. Arborescences 9. Pinboards Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum ...the Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose.Trade Review“Becoming Beside Ourselves is a bold, provocative, and highly original argument about the relation between medial effects and changing manifestations of subjectivity. It traces a sweeping trajectory from what Brian Rotman calls the ‘lettered self,’ associated with alphabetic inscription and the codex printed book, to the subject as distributed assemblage associated with network culture. While others have made parts of this kind of argument before, Rotman’s analysis is unique in placing special emphasis on gesture and revealing its traces in orality and print. In a brilliant synthesis, he mixes evolutionary theory with a Deleuzian view of agent-as-assemblage, arguing that computational media both reveal and perform distributed cognition as a crucial aspect of human being-in-the-world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the interrelations between computational media, contemporary subjectivity, and human evolution.”—Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles“Brian Rotman’s exciting new text not only adds to his previous work on signifying technology (zero, infinity), it expands his study of abstraction to encompass the construction of subjectivity itself. Becoming Beside Ourselves will open up all kinds of unexplored terrains, from grammatology to psychoanalysis, from the history of technology to the study of culture and religion.”—Fredric Jameson, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword: Machine Bodies, Ghosts, and Para-Selves: Confronting the Singularity with Brian Rotman / Timothy Lenoir ix Preface xxxi Acknowledgments xxxv Aura xxxvii Introduction: Lettered Selves and Beyond 1 Part I 1. The Alphabetic Body 13 2. Gesture and Non-Alphabetic Writing 33 Interlude 3. Technological Mathematics 57 Part II 4. Parallel Selves 81 5. Ghost Effects 107 Notes 139 References 151 Index 163

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Book SynopsisA preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.Trade Review“It seems that a work of this nature is long overdue and, will significantly improve the communication between modernity theorists and those working in feminist or postcolonial studies.” - Carolyn Anderson, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith“This is an ambitious and impressive book. . . . Harding’s book is a significant contribution to the literature on science, feminism, and postcoloniality. It is certainly a step in the direction of the transformation of science and politics that is Harding’s goal.” - Susan Hekman, Contemporary Sociology“Sciences from Below is a brilliant synthesis of three approaches to science and technology studies and a call for increased exchange betweenthem.” - Nancy Tuana, Isis“[T]he philosophical—and human—imperatives that led [Harding] to write this book are extremely important, and the book itself opens possibilities that philosophers must explore.” - Emily R. Grosholz, Women’s Review of Books“[A] stunning synthesis of research from post-positivist, feminist, and postcolonial science studies scholars.” - Bonnie Shulman, Technology and Culture“Sciences from Below is a splendid book. Sandra Harding’s project of intellectual integration, bringing together some of the most influential literatures on modernity, science, and feminism, is a welcome, much-needed project. Her project is needed because the social justice movements need synthetic scholarship, and it is needed because there is an academic tower of Babel with few translators.”—Hilary Rose, author of Love, Power, and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences“Sandra Harding fills significant gaps in three crucial, overlapping, yet strangely independent scholarly literatures on science and technology: feminist analyses of science, “traditional” science and technology studies, and postcolonial science studies. This is a unifying and strengthening project of great significance both practically (for the future of science throughout the world) and within academe.”—Anne Fausto-Sterling, author of Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality“Sandra Harding’s voice is one of the most important in the science and technology studies field. With Sciences from Below, she opens up a broad vista, one in which the entire field of social movements and alternative visions of modernity is gendered.”—David J. Hess, Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Director of the Program in Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute“Sciences from Below is a brilliant synthesis of three approaches to science and technology studies and a call for increased exchange betweenthem.” -- Nancy Tuana * Isis *“[A] stunning synthesis of research from post-positivist, feminist, and postcolonial science studies scholars.” -- Bonnie Shulman * Technology and Culture *“[T]he philosophical—and human—imperatives that led [Harding] to write this book are extremely important, and the book itself opens possibilities that philosophers must explore.” -- Emily R. Grosholz * Women's Review of Books *“It seems that a work of this nature is long overdue and, will significantly improve the communication between modernity theorists and those working in feminist or postcolonial studies.” -- Carolyn Anderson * Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith *“This is an ambitious and impressive book. . . . Harding’s book is a significant contribution to the literature on science, feminism, and postcoloniality. It is certainly a step in the direction of the transformation of science and politics that is Harding’s goal.” -- Susan Hekman * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Why Focus on Modernity? 1 I. Problems with Modernity's Science and Politics: Perspectives from Northern Science Studies 1. Modernity's Misleading Dream: Latour 23 2. The Incomplete First Modernity of Industrial Society: Beck 49 3. Co-evoloving Science and Society: Gibbons, Nowotny, and Scott 75 II. Views from (Western) Modernity's Peripheries 4. Women as Subjects of History and Knowledge 101 5. Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies: Are There Multiple Sciences? 130 6. Women on Modernity's Horizons: Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies 155 III. Interrogating Tradition: Challenges and Possibilities 7. Multiple Modernities: Postcolonial Standpoints 173 8. Haunted Modernities, Gendered Traditions 191 9. Moving On: A Methodological Provocation 214 Notes 235 Bibliography 257 Index 281

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Book SynopsisBrings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, one of the foremost philosophers of science.Trade Review“Readers will find that the overarching theme of the text is that scientific knowledge is not simply the result of a series of advances in which one pays forward into the next like a row of falling dominos. It is an emergent property of a nonlinear process involving a complex interplay of history, culture, and the scientific process. Rheinberger’s case studies present science as a productive enterprise with measurable outcomes such as conceptual models, experimental organisms, and instrumentation. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” - J. A. Hewlett, Choice“An Epistemology of the Concrete offers a methodological framework and a set of research exemplars that will shape science studies for years to come.”—Tim Lenoir, from the foreword“In this empirical and conceptual tour de force, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger provides an examination of the work of key twentieth-century epistemologists, rigorous historical vignettes of model-organism research, a materialist epistemology of experimental biology, and, consequently, a carefully precise yet broadly illuminating theorization of modes of knowledge production. An Epistemology of the Concrete is a major contribution not only to the history of science but also to fields such as anthropology, which are turning to epistemological analyses of the life sciences as a key site of inquiry.”—Kaushik Sunder Rajan, author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life“Hans-Jörg Rheinberger has played a prominent role in bringing those strands of thinking together, thus pioneering an integrated approach to the history and the philosophy of science and, most importantly, illuminating several long-standing philosophical debates with profound, creative and scientifically informed insights on the nature of experimental work. Within this wonderful volume, Rheinberger uses his understanding of the history of biology and his experience as a practising experimenter to build a sophisticated epistemology of scientific practice.” -- Sabina Leonelli * International Studies in the Philosophy of Science *“The reader will learn a great deal from Rheinberger’s essays on the scholars whom he sees as crucial in order to conceive of scientific knowledge as inherently historical, social, and ‘concrete’. The reader will also find an answer to what is historical epistemology today, or at least one version of it, both in theoretical terms and through case studies that show how a historical epistemological perspective enables the epistemologist, historian, and sociologist to read scientific activity.” -- Christina Chimisso * Radical Philosophy *“Readers will find that the overarching theme of the text is that scientific knowledge is not simply the result of a series of advances in which one pays forward into the next like a row of falling dominos. It is an emergent property of a nonlinear process involving a complex interplay of history, culture, and the scientific process. Rheinberger’s case studies present science as a productive enterprise with measurable outcomes such as conceptual models, experimental organisms, and instrumentation. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- J. A. Hewlett * Choice *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Foreword / Tim Lenoir xi Prologue 1 Part I. Historical Epistemology 1. Ludwik Fleck, Edmond Husserl: On the Historicity of Scientific Knowledge 13 2. Gaston Bachelard: The Concept of "Phenomenotechnique" 25 3. Georges Canguilhem: Epistemological History 37 Part II. Model Organisms: Studies in the History of Heredity and Reproduction 4. Pisum: Carl Carren's Experiments on Xenia, 1896–99 51 5. Eudorina: Max Hartmann's Experiments on Biological Regulation in Protozoa, 1914–21 82 6. Ephistia: Alfred Kühn's Experimental Design for a Developmental Physiological Genetics, 1924–45 94 7. Tobacco Mosaic Virus: Virus Research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes for Biochemistry and Biology, 1937–45 128 Part III. Concepts and Instruments: Studies in the History of Molecular Biology 8. The Concept of the Gene: Molecular Biological Perspectives 153 9. The Liquid Scintillation Counter: Traces of Radioactivity 170 10. The Concept of Information 203 Part IV. Epistemic Configurations 11. Intersections 217 12. Preparations 233 13. The Economy of the Scribble 244 Acknowledgments 253 Abbreviations 255 Notes 257 Bibliography 289 Index 321

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Book Synopsis Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship of biotechnology to ethics, governance, and markets, as well as the new legal, social, cultural, and institutional mechanisms emerging to regulate biotechnology. The contributors examine genomics, pharmaceutical marketing, intellectual property, environmental science, clinical trials, patient advocacy, and other such matters as they are playing out in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Lively Capital is not only about the commercialization of the life sciences, but their institutional histories, epistemic formations, and systems of valuation. It is also about the lively affects—the emotions and desires—involved when technologies and research impinTrade Review“Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally.”—Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things"Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science and technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally."—Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things"The air we breathe, the dogs with whom we cohabit, the children we breed, and the pharmaceuticals we regulate co-evolve simultaneously with the differential capitalization of life forms, life sciences, and life circumstances. Convincing us that 'lively capital' is, indeed, a living social form, these essays provide a stunningly provocative read!"—Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America“In many ways, Lively Capital reflects both the challenges and the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to researching an issue. As a result, the book provides a thought-provoking read for those with an interest in the processes of commodification and in the politics of emerging bioeconomies.” -- Brett Edwards * BioScience *“Lively Capital is a challenging, fiercely analytical, and ambitious collection of thirteen essays, tied together by an excellent introduction and epilogue by the editor, Kaushik Sunder Rajan. . . . It is rare to find an edited volume that covers so many diverse and seemingly disparate topics and yet demonstrates such symmetry between its individual contributions.” -- Todd Myers * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Capitalization of Life and the Liveliness of Capital / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 1 Part I. Encountering Value 1. Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The_BioMarx_Experiment / Joseph Dumit 45 2. Value-Added Dogs and Lively Capital / Donna J. Haraway 93 3. Air's Substantiations / Timothy Choy 121 Part II. Property and Dispossession 4. Taking Life: Private Rights in Public Nature / Sheila Jasanoff 155 5. Rice Genomes: Making Hybrid Properties / Elta Smith 184 6. Marx in New Zealand / Travis Tanner 211 7. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria / Kristin Peterson 228 Part III. Global Knowledge Formations 8. Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA / Andrew Lakoff 251 9. Transforming States in the Era of Global Pharmaceuticals: Visioning Clinical Research in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore / Wen-Hau Kuo 279 10. Biopolitics and the Informating of Environmentalism / Kim Fortun 306 Part IV. Promissory Experiments and Emergent Forms of Life 11. Genomics Scandals and Other Volatilities of Promising / Mike Fortun 329 12. Desperate and Rational: Of Love, Biomedicine, and Experimental Community / Chloe Silverman 354 13. Lively Biotech and Translational Research / Michael M. J. Fischer 385 Epilogue: Threads and Articulations / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 437 Bibliography 453 About the Contributors 491 Index 495

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Book SynopsisThis collection of anthropology of science essays explores the new forms of capital, markets, ethical, legal, and intellectual property concerns associated with new forms of research in the life sciences.Trade Review“Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally.”—Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things"Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science and technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally."—Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things"The air we breathe, the dogs with whom we cohabit, the children we breed, and the pharmaceuticals we regulate co-evolve simultaneously with the differential capitalization of life forms, life sciences, and life circumstances. Convincing us that 'lively capital' is, indeed, a living social form, these essays provide a stunningly provocative read!"—Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America“In many ways, Lively Capital reflects both the challenges and the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to researching an issue. As a result, the book provides a thought-provoking read for those with an interest in the processes of commodification and in the politics of emerging bioeconomies.” -- Brett Edwards * BioScience *“Lively Capital is a challenging, fiercely analytical, and ambitious collection of thirteen essays, tied together by an excellent introduction and epilogue by the editor, Kaushik Sunder Rajan. . . . It is rare to find an edited volume that covers so many diverse and seemingly disparate topics and yet demonstrates such symmetry between its individual contributions.” -- Todd Myers * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Capitalization of Life and the Liveliness of Capital / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 1 Part I. Encountering Value 1. Prescription Maximization and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The_BioMarx_Experiment / Joseph Dumit 45 2. Value-Added Dogs and Lively Capital / Donna J. Haraway 93 3. Air's Substantiations / Timothy Choy 121 Part II. Property and Dispossession 4. Taking Life: Private Rights in Public Nature / Sheila Jasanoff 155 5. Rice Genomes: Making Hybrid Properties / Elta Smith 184 6. Marx in New Zealand / Travis Tanner 211 7. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria / Kristin Peterson 228 Part III. Global Knowledge Formations 8. Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA / Andrew Lakoff 251 9. Transforming States in the Era of Global Pharmaceuticals: Visioning Clinical Research in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore / Wen-Hau Kuo 279 10. Biopolitics and the Informating of Environmentalism / Kim Fortun 306 Part IV. Promissory Experiments and Emergent Forms of Life 11. Genomics Scandals and Other Volatilities of Promising / Mike Fortun 329 12. Desperate and Rational: Of Love, Biomedicine, and Experimental Community / Chloe Silverman 354 13. Lively Biotech and Translational Research / Michael M. J. Fischer 385 Epilogue: Threads and Articulations / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 437 Bibliography 453 About the Contributors 491 Index 495

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Book Synopsis In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy''s initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—developed by feminist health activists. They argue that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projecTrade Review"Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated, original, unromantic, and challenging account of feminist reproductive politics in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s, both in its national context and as it helped to shape international development programs and strategies. Teasing out the racial politics and embedded features of white privilege that many other scholars and activists have neglected, Michelle Murphy forges a very distinctive trajectory."—Maureen McNeil, author of Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology"Ambitious, thought-provoking, and utterly compelling, Seizing the Means of Reproduction reworks the history of modern feminism as 'technoscientific counter-conduct.' Michelle Murphy convincingly locates the politics of sex and reproduction at the junction where specific technologies—the plastic speculum, the Pap smear, manual suction abortion—collide with the global trajectories of political economy."—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"Brava! A sorely needed retheorizing of the movement of reproduction to the center of twentieth-century biopolitics and the consequences for the politicization of life. Attending to the disunity of feminisms, Michelle Murphy follows a panoply of appropriations and inventions that transformed sexed living being and the facts of life from the personal to the transnational. Feminist biopolitics—alternate forms of becoming and conditions of possibility—have revisioned the world. The book I truly wish I had written."—Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.“By politicizing the technologies, protocols, and processes feminist health activists developed to empower women, Murphy demonstrates that the “control” of reproduction was fashioned with (not simply by) technoscience as a practical and pivotal feature of feminist politics. Seizing the Means of Reproduction is a must read for those interested in feminism, women’s health, the body, and medical sociology.” -- Gayle Sulik * Gender & Society *“Reading of the book occurs at multiple levels – it is a fascinating account of the women’s self-help movement of the time; it is also a thought provoking analysis of ‘necropolitics’ with particular reference to the issues of race in the US. Finally, it situates the women’s health movement within the broader global context –where the practices, if not the protocols, were implicated globally in the policies around reproduction that were inserted into other countries in the form of US Aid. This is a challenging but extremely worthwhile read.” -- Karen Willis * Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health *“An indispensable reading for feminist technoscience seminars and a valuable source for gender studies as well as reproductive technologies classes.” -- Habibe Burcu Baba * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the entanglements between health feminism and biomedicalization in the late twentieth century.” -- Wendy Kline * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“Murphy’s work not only makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how reproductive technologies have been politically, socially, culturally and racially transformed and maneuvered since the 1970s, but it also elegantly, and intricately, conveys how the ‘economy of reproduction’ functions in both the developed and developing worlds, especially in the age of genetic engineering, cloning, sex-selection, and continuing contraceptive battles.” -- Tanfer Emin Tunc * American Studies *“Seizing the Means of Reproduction is an important contribution to scholarship that takes reproduction seriously as a site of power, cultural production, and consumption. . . . Readers will find it an engaging read and highly relevant to new and enduring questions within STS, the history of medicine, medical anthropology and sociology, and feminist studies on gender, health and technoscience. It will also speak strongly to communities of activists and users interested in understanding and creating “better versions of technoscience and feminism” at home and abroad.” -- Margaret E. MacDonald * Somatosphere *“Murphy’s balanced and detailed examination of the shifts in the tactics and investments of the women’s self-help health movement is a crucial resource in understanding how the presence and absence of different types of feminist politics shape reproductive health landscapes.” -- Claire McKinney * Women's Studies Quarterly *"[Murphy] demonstrates the significance of the success, failure and co-optation of the feminist self help movement, the links between Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, bioethics and transnational flows of knowledge, and the unexpected associations between feminism and technoscience, sex, class and race. Ultimately, this book should encouracge scholars of medicine, feminism , women's history and sexuality to make broader local-to-global connections when researching reproduction." -- Christabelle Sethna * Social History of Medicine *“Throughout the book, Murphy’s insights are eloquently encapsulated in the conceptual terms and frameworks that she coins or adopts. . . . Seizing the Means of Reproduction promises to be a rewarding read for feminist technoscience studies scholars, as well as historians of the women’s movement, reproductive health, and global biopolitics.” -- Chikako Takeshita * Isis *“The events that Murphy writes about are more than three decades old, yet it is startling to realize just how relevant these questions are today. Much of the activism explored in Seizing the Means of Reproduction arose, at least in part, out of a desire to put reproductive healthcare decision-making in the hands of those most affected by it: women themselves. But, as the current social and political climate around women’s rights, gender and reproduction makes clear, these issues continue to incite controversy and judgment today. And this knowledge adds a surprising poignancy . . . to Seizing the Means of Reproduction. . . .” -- Sarah Erdreich * Lilith *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction: Feminism in/as Biopolitics 1 1. Assembling Protocol Feminism 25 2. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity 68 3. Pap Smears, Cervical Cancer, and Scales 102 4. Traveling Technology and a Device for Not Performing Abortions 150 Conclusion: Living the Contradiction 177 Notes 183 Bibliography 219 Index 247

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Book Synopsis In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy''s initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—developed by feminist health activists. They argue that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projecTrade Review"Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated, original, unromantic, and challenging account of feminist reproductive politics in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s, both in its national context and as it helped to shape international development programs and strategies. Teasing out the racial politics and embedded features of white privilege that many other scholars and activists have neglected, Michelle Murphy forges a very distinctive trajectory."—Maureen McNeil, author of Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology"Ambitious, thought-provoking, and utterly compelling, Seizing the Means of Reproduction reworks the history of modern feminism as 'technoscientific counter-conduct.' Michelle Murphy convincingly locates the politics of sex and reproduction at the junction where specific technologies—the plastic speculum, the Pap smear, manual suction abortion—collide with the global trajectories of political economy."—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"Brava! A sorely needed retheorizing of the movement of reproduction to the center of twentieth-century biopolitics and the consequences for the politicization of life. Attending to the disunity of feminisms, Michelle Murphy follows a panoply of appropriations and inventions that transformed sexed living being and the facts of life from the personal to the transnational. Feminist biopolitics—alternate forms of becoming and conditions of possibility—have revisioned the world. The book I truly wish I had written."—Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.“By politicizing the technologies, protocols, and processes feminist health activists developed to empower women, Murphy demonstrates that the “control” of reproduction was fashioned with (not simply by) technoscience as a practical and pivotal feature of feminist politics. Seizing the Means of Reproduction is a must read for those interested in feminism, women’s health, the body, and medical sociology.” -- Gayle Sulik * Gender & Society *“Reading of the book occurs at multiple levels – it is a fascinating account of the women’s self-help movement of the time; it is also a thought provoking analysis of ‘necropolitics’ with particular reference to the issues of race in the US. Finally, it situates the women’s health movement within the broader global context –where the practices, if not the protocols, were implicated globally in the policies around reproduction that were inserted into other countries in the form of US Aid. This is a challenging but extremely worthwhile read.” -- Karen Willis * Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health *“An indispensable reading for feminist technoscience seminars and a valuable source for gender studies as well as reproductive technologies classes.” -- Habibe Burcu Baba * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the entanglements between health feminism and biomedicalization in the late twentieth century.” -- Wendy Kline * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“Murphy’s work not only makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how reproductive technologies have been politically, socially, culturally and racially transformed and maneuvered since the 1970s, but it also elegantly, and intricately, conveys how the ‘economy of reproduction’ functions in both the developed and developing worlds, especially in the age of genetic engineering, cloning, sex-selection, and continuing contraceptive battles.” -- Tanfer Emin Tunc * American Studies *“Seizing the Means of Reproduction is an important contribution to scholarship that takes reproduction seriously as a site of power, cultural production, and consumption. . . . Readers will find it an engaging read and highly relevant to new and enduring questions within STS, the history of medicine, medical anthropology and sociology, and feminist studies on gender, health and technoscience. It will also speak strongly to communities of activists and users interested in understanding and creating “better versions of technoscience and feminism” at home and abroad.” -- Margaret E. MacDonald * Somatosphere *“Murphy’s balanced and detailed examination of the shifts in the tactics and investments of the women’s self-help health movement is a crucial resource in understanding how the presence and absence of different types of feminist politics shape reproductive health landscapes.” -- Claire McKinney * Women's Studies Quarterly *"[Murphy] demonstrates the significance of the success, failure and co-optation of the feminist self help movement, the links between Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, bioethics and transnational flows of knowledge, and the unexpected associations between feminism and technoscience, sex, class and race. Ultimately, this book should encouracge scholars of medicine, feminism , women's history and sexuality to make broader local-to-global connections when researching reproduction." -- Christabelle Sethna * Social History of Medicine *“Throughout the book, Murphy’s insights are eloquently encapsulated in the conceptual terms and frameworks that she coins or adopts. . . . Seizing the Means of Reproduction promises to be a rewarding read for feminist technoscience studies scholars, as well as historians of the women’s movement, reproductive health, and global biopolitics.” -- Chikako Takeshita * Isis *“The events that Murphy writes about are more than three decades old, yet it is startling to realize just how relevant these questions are today. Much of the activism explored in Seizing the Means of Reproduction arose, at least in part, out of a desire to put reproductive healthcare decision-making in the hands of those most affected by it: women themselves. But, as the current social and political climate around women’s rights, gender and reproduction makes clear, these issues continue to incite controversy and judgment today. And this knowledge adds a surprising poignancy . . . to Seizing the Means of Reproduction. . . .” -- Sarah Erdreich * Lilith *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction: Feminism in/as Biopolitics 1 1. Assembling Protocol Feminism 25 2. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity 68 3. Pap Smears, Cervical Cancer, and Scales 102 4. Traveling Technology and a Device for Not Performing Abortions 150 Conclusion: Living the Contradiction 177 Notes 183 Bibliography 219 Index 247

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Postgenomics assess the changes to the life sciences the Human Genome Project's completion brought, develop new frameworks for studying the human genome in the postgenomic era, and show how the environment, technology, race, and gender influence the genome and how we think about it.Trade Review"The volume is an accessible and insightful collection of critical and informed perspectives on how technological and theoretical developments influence science and society, and how they shape the ways we think about biological systems like ourselves." -- Sara Green * Metascience *"Postgenomics suggests just how many questions we may productively ask, and marks some highly fruitful lines of inquiry, as we seek to understand this new chapter in the ongoing interaction among genes, society, and ourselves." -- Robin Wolfe Scheffler * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"The authors convey exceptionally well the character of postgenomic science and how genomics has changed since the 1990s. . . . essential and very interesting reading for anyone interested in genomics and its recent trajectory." -- Peter Wade * Technology and Culture *"This book not only analyzes the impact of numerous [genome-wide association studies] but also examines emerging research areas such as epigenetics in political, social, and philosophical contexts, in so doing redefining the information ecology of the genome. Highly recommended." -- S. H. Jeong * Choice *"I recommend this book to all biologists and philosophers interested in an accessible overview of the effect of the genomic revolution on the biosciences. It capably discusses both the new discoveries and the technical improvements that have been made since the advent of genomics, as well as the attendant philosophical and sociological implications." -- P. William Hughes * Science *"This book . . . should be widely read by all who are interested in the current state and future of the genomic revolution." -- Michael Yudell * Social History of Medicine *"[Postgenomics] offers readers an imaginative and frequently playful way to approach the increasingly complicated question about how scientific innovation impacts society and vice versa." -- Adrianna Link * Journal of the History of Biology *Table of ContentsForeward. Biology's Love Affair with the Genome / Russ Altman vii 1. Beyond the Genome / Hallam Stevens and Sarah S. Richardson 1 2. The Postgenomic Genome / Evelyn Fox Keller 9 3. What Toll Pursuit: Affective Assemblages in Genomics and Postgenomics / Mike Fortun 32 4. The Polygenomic Organism / John Dupré 56 5. Machine Learning and Genomic Dimensionality: From Features to Landscapes / Adrian Mackenzie 73 6. Networks: Representations and Tools in Postgenomics / Hallam Stevens 103 7. Valuing Data in Postgenomic Biology: How Data Donation and Curation Practices Challenge the Scientific Publication System / Rachel A. Ankeny and Sabina Leonelli 126 8. From Behavior Genetics to Postgenomics / Aaron Panofsky 150 9. Defining Health Justice in the Postgenomic Era / Catherine Bliss 174 10. The Missing Piece of the Puzzle? Measuring the Environment in the Postgenomic Moment / Sara Shostak and Margot Moinester 192 11. Maternal Bodies in the Postgenomic Order: Gender and the Explanatory Landscape of Epigenetics / Sarah S. Richardson 210 12. Approaching Postgenomics / Hallam Stevens and Sarah S. Richardson 232 Bibliography 243 Contributors 281 Index 287

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Postgenomics assess the changes to the life sciences the Human Genome Project's completion brought, develop new frameworks for studying the human genome in the postgenomic era, and show how the environment, technology, race, and gender influence the genome and how we think about it.Trade Review"The volume is an accessible and insightful collection of critical and informed perspectives on how technological and theoretical developments influence science and society, and how they shape the ways we think about biological systems like ourselves." -- Sara Green * Metascience *"Postgenomics suggests just how many questions we may productively ask, and marks some highly fruitful lines of inquiry, as we seek to understand this new chapter in the ongoing interaction among genes, society, and ourselves." -- Robin Wolfe Scheffler * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"The authors convey exceptionally well the character of postgenomic science and how genomics has changed since the 1990s. . . . essential and very interesting reading for anyone interested in genomics and its recent trajectory." -- Peter Wade * Technology and Culture *"This book not only analyzes the impact of numerous [genome-wide association studies] but also examines emerging research areas such as epigenetics in political, social, and philosophical contexts, in so doing redefining the information ecology of the genome. Highly recommended." -- S. H. Jeong * Choice *"I recommend this book to all biologists and philosophers interested in an accessible overview of the effect of the genomic revolution on the biosciences. It capably discusses both the new discoveries and the technical improvements that have been made since the advent of genomics, as well as the attendant philosophical and sociological implications." -- P. William Hughes * Science *"This book . . . should be widely read by all who are interested in the current state and future of the genomic revolution." -- Michael Yudell * Social History of Medicine *"[Postgenomics] offers readers an imaginative and frequently playful way to approach the increasingly complicated question about how scientific innovation impacts society and vice versa." -- Adrianna Link * Journal of the History of Biology *Table of ContentsForeward. Biology's Love Affair with the Genome / Russ Altman vii 1. Beyond the Genome / Hallam Stevens and Sarah S. Richardson 1 2. The Postgenomic Genome / Evelyn Fox Keller 9 3. What Toll Pursuit: Affective Assemblages in Genomics and Postgenomics / Mike Fortun 32 4. The Polygenomic Organism / John Dupré 56 5. Machine Learning and Genomic Dimensionality: From Features to Landscapes / Adrian Mackenzie 73 6. Networks: Representations and Tools in Postgenomics / Hallam Stevens 103 7. Valuing Data in Postgenomic Biology: How Data Donation and Curation Practices Challenge the Scientific Publication System / Rachel A. Ankeny and Sabina Leonelli 126 8. From Behavior Genetics to Postgenomics / Aaron Panofsky 150 9. Defining Health Justice in the Postgenomic Era / Catherine Bliss 174 10. The Missing Piece of the Puzzle? Measuring the Environment in the Postgenomic Moment / Sara Shostak and Margot Moinester 192 11. Maternal Bodies in the Postgenomic Order: Gender and the Explanatory Landscape of Epigenetics / Sarah S. Richardson 210 12. Approaching Postgenomics / Hallam Stevens and Sarah S. Richardson 232 Bibliography 243 Contributors 281 Index 287

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Book SynopsisElizabeth A. Wilson shakes feminist theory from its resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data and urges that now is the time for feminism to critically engage with biology. Doing so will reanimate feminist theory, strengthening its ability to address depression, affect, gender, and feminist politics.Trade Review"From organ speech to enteric moods, the gut is minded and the mind gutted by this book. It promises and delivers readings of biochemistry, pharmacology, anatomy, and psychoanalysis as strange matters that are unsettling to biology and feminism alike. Provocative in its diagnosis of the rejection of biology in feminist theory, I expect many readers will both devour this book, and throw it around the room a little." -- Hannah Landecker author of * Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies *"Liz Wilson rarely disappoints, and her latest offering, Gut Feminism, takes up her long standing project to bring feminism into irreducible and unruly alliance with biology several provocative steps further.... I can only commend Wilson for both the provocation and intellectual rigor of her daring." -- Margrit Shildrick * Contemporary Women's Writing *"Gut Feminism is a valuable read for everyone interested in finding links between biology and socio-constructionist approaches within feminist theory.... Overall, Gut Feminism constitutes a relevant contribution to current feminist theory, not only in deconstructing scientific knowledge, but also in proposing innovative and exciting understandings of the human body and its performative relation to the world." -- Melissa Chacón * Women's Studies International Forum *"[T]imely, persuasive, and engaging.... Gut Feminism makes a valuable contribution to current feminist theory, queer theory, science studies, and neuroscientific humanities literature and will be of interest to scholars of all levels." -- Carolyn Laubender * Journal of International Women's Studies *"[A] captivating study that crosses numerous disciplines in order to press the boundaries of both feminist theory and biology. . . . Gut Feminism is a timely and inventive project that extends the traditional scope and methods of feminist theorizing. . . . Wilson's project is fast-paced and far-reaching, engaging with an impressive breadth of data, theory, and argumentation, not, as Wilson identifies, as an attempt to bring consilience to the issues she touches on, but as a way to trace entanglements and ruptures within neuroscience and critical inquiry." -- Suze G. Berkhout and Ada Jaarsma * Hypatia *"Gut Feminism exemplifies what rigorous work in this field can bring to key debates not just within feminist theory, but within contemporary critical theory as a whole, and does so with intellectual boldness and precision." -- Elizabeth Stephens * Australian Humanities Review *"Gut Feminism is less a book about politics than one that makes politics happen. It shocks its readers into taking a stance—like a punch in the gut." -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * Make *"The work is groundbreaking and bordering on dangerous, as she disputes the antibiological position most prominent in feminist theorising thus far, and instead forges new lines of flight.... Gut Feminism is a powerhouse of a book. Gripping as only this calibre of feminist theory can be." -- Adele Pavlidis * Australian Feminist Studies *"One of the most provocative and talked-about new books in feminist theory, Gut Feminism is as imaginative as it is polemical. Wilson nuances her intervention here in productive ways. She positions herself at the outset as critic of both 'anti-biologism' in feminism and of the enthusiasm that characterizes much of what constitutes the 'turn to neuroscience' in the humanities and social sciences." -- Angela Willey * GLQ *"Gut Feminism arrests, transforms, and taxes some of feminist theory’s most entrenched presuppositions. . . . [It] constitutes nothing less than a gut check for feminist theory, one that is likely to jostle and reanimate the field for years to come." -- David A. Rubin * Journal of Lesbian Studies *"Gut Feminism changes how we need to think about embodiment; it changes what we need to know about depression. In this, its value extends far beyond the realm of feminist theory." -- Astrida Neimanis * philoSOPHIA *"Gut Feminism is a beautifully written, complex book that brilliantly articulates the most recent developments of Wilson’s long-running project addressing the possible role of neurological 'data' . . . in feminist theory." -- Celia Roberts * New Genetics and Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Depression, Biology, Aggression 1 Part I. Feminist Theory 1. Underbelly 21 2. The Biolocial Unconscious 45 3. Bitter Melancholy 68 Part II. Antidepressants 4. Chemical Transference 97 5. The Bastard Placebo 121 6. The Pharmakology of Depression 141 Conclusion 169 Notes 181 References 201 Index 225

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Book SynopsisIn Fungible Life Aihwa Ong traces the revolutionary scientific developments in Asia by investigating how biomedical centers in Biopolis, Singapore and China mobilize ethnicized "Asian" bodies and health data for genomic research.Trade Review"Anyone interested in cosmopolitan flows of knowledge and risk will find this book of value, as the phenomena that it describes and the methodologies that Ong uses seem to me to be readily transferable. . . . I particularly enjoy the way Ong fits the situated nature of her own authorship, including her Asian background, her family history of cancer and so on, seamlessly into her account. . . . [A] beautiful and engaging piece of writing and an important contribution to a wide spectrum of knowledge." -- Flora Samuel * Times Higher Education *"Embracing a new frontier, Ong’s latest work tackles our fear of the unknown in genomic research, concerns about multiple levels of research ethics, and our curiosity about genomic research’s implications for Chinese and Asian identity, which in turn has implications for human identity as a whole. This book on biomedical research is suitable for graduate students and scholars interested in the production of knowledge, science and technology studies, medical anthropology and sociology, ethnic studies, public health, and broadly Asian Studies." -- Fang Xu * New Books Asia *"This book is an essential contribution to a comparative anthropology of biosentinels through a refined and accessible ethnography of two biotech centers in Singapore and Shenzhen, showing how a future is taking shape in which Asia will play a prominent role." -- Frederic Keck * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Ong's book is a deep dive in the complex role of the state, universities, firms, research stars, and knowledge about genetics in shaping the development of Singapore, in particular, as a key space in the development of scientific knowledge. After reading it you can better understand why universities like Duke and Imperial College seek (and need) to have a formal institutional presence in Singapore, and in association with key national partner universities like NUS and NTU. The Ong book, thus, provides insights on the geographical-, historical-, and sectoral -specific developments that these universities are currently navigating." -- Kris Olds * Inside Higher Ed *“Fungible Life is an important addition to the growing literature in area-specific science studies, and an important intervention in the anthropology of science scholarship on racialised science. . . . Well worth the investment for anyone interested in how race, ethnicity and science are made in Asia today.” -- Katherine A. Mason * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *“Ong skillfully provides an accessible and lucid account of the intersection of ethnicity, biopolitics and uncertainties in Asia’s bioscientific world. Fungible Life is a valuable addition to fields such as the anthropology of Asia, medical anthropology, and science and technology studies. It is also highly accessible for readers of various levels.” -- Yifeng Cai * Social Anthropology *"The productive uncertainties and ethnic heuristics that Aihwa Ong examines in her study of Singapore’s Biopolis enrich our understanding of ethnicity in postgenomic Asia. These are the major contributions of Fungible Life." -- Wen-Ching Sung * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsPrologue: Enigmatic Variations ix Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Inventing a City of Life 1 Part I. Risks 1. Where the Wild Genes Are 29 2. An Atlas of Asian Diseases 51 3. Smoldering Fire 73 Part II. Uncertainties 4. The Productive Uncertainty of Bioethics 93 5. Virtue and Expatriate Scientists 113 6. Perturbing Life 136 Part III. Known Unknowns 7. A Single Wave 157 8. "Viruses Don't Carry Passports" 174 9. The "Athlete Gene" in China's Future 197 Epilogue: A DNA Bridge and an Octopus's Garden 223 Notes 239 Bibliography 257 Index 271

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Book SynopsisMichelle Murphy examines the ways in which efforts at population control since World War II have tied reproduction to neoliberal capitalism, showing how data collection practices have been used to quantify the value of a human life in terms of its ability to improve the nation-state's gross domestic product.Trade Review"Though this book be concise, it is fierce. It can be read, and reread, with profit by undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers. Highly recommended." -- T. E. Sullivan * Choice *"The Economization of Life convincingly links experimentality to what has been one of the most popular developmental trends of the past two decades. . . . Michelle Murphy’s bold and sharp book opens many new lines of inquiries." -- Stephen Macekura * Diplomatic History *"This is a valuable book that should be read by anyone who is interested in the mid-twentieth-century population control movement, including its history and socioeconomic context, or anyone who still adheres to the neoliberal view that population growth (or 'overpopulation,' as it is often called) has been and continues to be one of the greatest problems facing human society." -- Garland E. Allen * Isis *"Murphy weaves helpful threads of history, literature, and economics, guides the reader through complicated ideas, and leaves enough notes so research can continue beyond the book’s borders. . . . The Economization of Life is a useful and an instructive tool for policy makers and researchers on population and reproductive health, and for scholars and students in gender, women, and sexuality studies, or anyone who may be concerned with matters of reproductive rights." -- Kira Frank * Wagadu *"It takes a study as rigorous as Murphy’s to expose the double-edged nature of human capital: galvanizing self-improvement of, and popular support for, underprivileged populations, even as it does so according to metrics that have investor interests—rather than general well-being—as their goal." -- Hadas Weiss * Public Books *"The Economization of Life is a book that sticks. Author Michelle Murphy delicately surfaces the history and persistence of racist and eugenicist logics as they comprise global economies and state governance practices, and, in a bold and self-reflexive gesture, describes how these same logics operate in feminist organizations and academic research. Murphy's work forced me to grapple with unresolvable tensions, particularly between long term liberation and short term survival, which were simultaneously troubling and eye-opening. I can see these now in places where they used to be hidden." -- Lourdes Vera * Somatosphere *"The Economization of Life gives us important tools to bring the work of reproductive justice from the world of feminist social justice organizing to the world of feminist scholarship. It shows us that the economy is an effect that materializes its own causes, supported by a structure of belief that holds together otherwise disparate data and calculations. With enough effort, it urges us, we should be able to divest from that enabling belief, and instead follow models for a regenerative politics, committing instead to reproductive justice as an infrastructure of regeneration." -- Kalindi Vora * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Bottles and Curves 1 Arc 1. Phantasmagrams of Population and Economy 1. Economy as Atmosphere 17 2. Demographic Transitions 35 3. Averted Birth 47 4. Dreaming Technoscience 55 Arc II. Reproducing Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Counting and Affect 59 6. Continuous Incitement 73 7. Experimental Exuberance 78 8. Dying, Not Dying, Not Being Born 95 9. Experimental Otherwise 105 Arc III. Investable Life 10. Invest in a Girl 113 11. Exhausting Data 125 12. Unaligned Feeling 133 Coda. Distributed Reproduction 135 Notes 147 Bibliography 179 Index 211

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Book SynopsisAri Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production—from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"— to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.Trade Review“A compelling account of how the aesthetics of corporeal politics has come to condition the rhetorics and epistemologies of life, realism, existence, authenticity, technology, reproduction, and the body itself, Chinese Surplus will forever change the way we think about the power of visual embodiment in an age of increasing angst over property/propriety rights, technological determinism, and human’s role in their imbricated historical legacy.” -- Howard Chiang * Journal of the History of Biology *"Chinese Surplus is an ambitious project that weaves together a transnational and transhistorical consideration of aesthetic production and biomedical commodification. . . . Heinrich’s project does the groundbreaking work of connecting the global power dynamics of contemporary cultural productions engaged with fragmentation and labeled inauthentic with longer histories of imperialism." -- Kathryn Cai * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus 1 1. Chinese Whispers: Frankenstein, the Sleeping Lion, and the Emergence of a Biopolitical Aesthetics 25 2. Souvenirs of the Organ Trade: The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art 49 3. Organ Economics: Transplant, Class, and Witness from Made in Hong Kong to The Eye 83 4. Still Life: Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the Body Worlds and Beyond 115 Epilogue. All Rights Preserved: Intellectual Property and the Plastinated Cadaver Exhibits 139 Notes 159 Bibliography 227 Index 239

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