A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments
()
About this ebook
A Simpler Life approaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institutional lives of practitioners in two labs at Princeton University. It highlights the distance between hyped technoscience and the more plodding and entrenched aspects of academic research.
Talia Dan-Cohen follows practitioners as they wrestle with experiments, attempt to publish research findings, and navigate the ins and outs of academic careers. Dan-Cohen foregrounds the practices and rationalities of these pursuits that give both researchers' lives and synthetic life their distinctive contemporary forms. Rather than draw attention to avowed methodology, A Simpler Life investigates some of the more subtle and tectonic practices that bring knowledge, doubt, and technological intervention into new configurations. In so doing, the book sheds light on the more general conditions of contemporary academic technoscience.
Related to A Simpler Life
Related ebooks
The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Nature of Diversity: An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVirolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUntangling Twinning: What Science Tells Us about the Nature of Human Embryos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFirst Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Eugenics: Modifying Biological Life in the Twenty-First Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFirst Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEvolutionary Biology of Parasites. (MPB-15), Volume 15 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Evolutionary Ecology of Invasive Species Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRandomness in Evolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Biology of Race, Revised Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEmbryos in Deep Time: The Rock Record of Biological Development Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Designing Human Practices: An Experiment with Synthetic Biology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOutsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSynthetic: How Life Got Made Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGenetics: A Beginner's Guide Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Reflections On Evolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cell's Design (Reasons to Believe): How Chemistry Reveals the Creator's Artistry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Three Failures of Creationism: Logic, Rhetoric, and Science Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Anthropology For You
How to Survive in Ancient Egypt Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A History of the American People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way of the Shaman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYou Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Body Language Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future---Updated With a New Epilogue Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Psychology of Totalitarianism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bullshit Jobs: A Theory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Regarding the Pain of Others Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Trails: An Exploration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Simpler Life
0 ratings0 reviews