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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alessandro DelfantiPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.213kg ISBN: 9780745332802ISBN 10: 0745332803 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 10 May 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Cracking codes, remixing cultures 2. Forbidden, public, enclosed, open science 3. Hackers, rebels and profiteers 4. Sailing and sequencing the genome seas 5. Just another rebel scientist 6. We are the biohackers 7. Conclusions: how to hack biology Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAlessandro Delfanti's book is a deft and accessible introduction to the changing face of science in the new century. He brings a journalist's skill, a scientist's skepticism and an activist's passion to the question of open science today. The work offers an expert analysis of the global politics of big science and the details and pleasures, the successes and failures, of small-scale amateur and DIY biology. From the lucid writing emerges the story of a new ethic of sharing and decoding life - whether viewed under the microscope or lived out in hackerspaces and garage labs. -- Christopher M. Kelty, Associate Professor of Information Studies and Anthropology, Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA The biohackers are here. In this fascinating book, Alessandro Delfanti shows us how a new generation of citizen-scientists is breaking open the study of biology with the kinds of countercultural tools first used to hack the computer. Thanks to their work, science may never be the same again. -- Fred Turner, Associate Professor of Communication, Stanford University Alessandro Delfanti's book is a deft and accessible introduction to the changing face of science in the new century. He brings a journalist's skill, a scientist's skepticism and an activist's passion to the question of open science today. The work offers an expert analysis of the global politics of big science and the details and pleasures, the successes and failures, of small-scale amateur and DIY biology. From the lucid writing emerges the story of a new ethic of sharing and decoding life - whether viewed under the microscope or lived out in hackerspaces and garage labs. -- Christopher M. Kelty, Associate Professor of Information Studies and Anthropology, Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA Author InformationAlessandro Delfanti teaches Digital Media at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (Pluto, 2013). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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