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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Erica Borg , Amedeo Policante (University of Oldenburg)Publisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Weight: 0.596kg ISBN: 9780745344539ISBN 10: 0745344534 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 01 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Life's Inner Workings 2. Manufacturing Lives 3. Genomic Infrastructures 4. Crispr Assembly Lines 5. Molecular Factory Farms 6. Engineering Extinction Ecologies 7. Pharmaceutical Lives 8. Bioengineering the Human ConclusionReviews'Money is making biology mutate. Capital nowadays reaches ever deeper into organisms to reformat their genes, metabolisms, and more. This book is a lucid and provocative guide to this brave new world' -- Stefan Helmreich, Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'An ambitious critique of biopolitical economy. The battle against capital requires a struggle over the means of genomic production, and 'Mutant Ecologies' provides an essential, historically and theoretically rigorous assessment of the terrain' -- Jesse Goldstein, Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University Author InformationErica Borg is a geographer and political ecologist based at King's College, London. Their research focuses on the relations between capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and ecological crisis. Amedeo Policante is a Researcher at the Nova University of Lisbon. His writings interrogate the nexus of extraction, exploitation and expropriation that fuels the contemporary world market. He is the author of two books: The Pirate Myth and The New Mercenaries. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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