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GENOMIC CAPITAL: Public Cultures and Market Logics of Corporate Biotechnology

机译:基因资本:公司生物技术的公共文化和市场逻辑

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This essay is about the cultural transformations―institutional and conceptual―that biocapitalism is creating in the materiality and exchangeability of what we call 'life'. These transformations are created through shifting and variable use of market commodification versus public commons or public goods formation, both of which are disciplined by new forms of capitalist logic, conforming neither to those of industrial capitalism nor those of so-called postmodern information capitalism. Hence 'biocapitalism', which basically asks the question of how 'life' gets redefined through the contradictory processes of commodification. Specifically, this essay is about the enterprise of genomics as a window on contemporary capitalism. It is a window that affords a particularly important view into the latter's workings as the confluence today of the information and life sciences redefines not just biology but society and its perspectival vantage points writ large. Paul Rabinow coined the term biosociality to describe social relations organized and coordinated on the basis of shared biological identifications (Rabinow, 1992). If capitalism could be understood in the nineteenth century through an understanding of the industrial revolution, which itself was powered by the dynamics of circulation of money and commodities, then the twenty-first century could be said to be an era of biotechnical capitalism, in which the sciences of life construct and articulate new historical modes of capitalism.
机译:这篇文章是关于生物资本主义在我们所谓的“生命”的物质性和可交换性中创造的文化变革(制度和概念)。这些转变是通过市场商品相对于公共财产或公共物品形成的转移和可变使用而产生的,这两种变化都受到新形式的资本主义逻辑的约束,既不符合工业资本主义的形式,也不符合所谓的后现代信息资本主义的形式。因此,“生物资本主义”从根本上提出了如何通过矛盾的商品化过程重新定义“生命”的问题。具体来说,本文是关于基因组学的研究,作为通向当代资本主义的窗口。由于当今信息和生命科学的融合不仅重新定义了生物学,而且重新定义了社会及其透视优势,因此,这是一个窗口,可提供对窗口的工作方式特别重要的看法。保罗·拉比诺(Paul Rabinow)创造了“生物社会性”一词,用以描述在共同的生物识别基础上组织和协调的社会关系(拉比诺,1992)。如果在十九世纪可以通过对工业革命的理解来理解资本主义,而工业革命本身是由货币和商品流通的动力所驱动的,那么二十一世纪可以说是生物技术资本主义的时代,其中生命科学构建并阐明了资本主义的新历史模式。

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    《Science as Culture》 |2003年第1期|p.87-121|共35页
  • 作者

    KAUSHIK SUNDER RAJAN;

  • 作者单位

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;

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  • 中图分类 哲学、宗教;
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