Sociobiology and Biosociality
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Sociobiology and Biosociality
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Authors
Paul Rabinow 
Occupation: Professor of Anthropology
Affiliation: University of California (Berkeley)
Address: Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley, 232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3710
Pages
8-26
Abstract

Recent advances in biotechnologies have radically transformed the relations between nature and culture. Sociobiology as a project of reforming society according to natural principles is giving way to the practices of biosociality that makes culture a model for nature. This paper examines how new genetic engineering techniques in science, diagnostics, and food industry, shape the bonds between life, labor, and language. Nature is no longer articulated as infinite nor finite but displays the plethora of potentialities actualized by new forms of power-knowledge.

Keywords
genetic engineering, human genome, nature, culture, life, sociobiology, biosociality, artificiality
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12.12.2019
Date of publication
12.12.2019
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