Sakari Tamminen
Biographic Data
| ID | 232682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sakari Tamminen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sakari |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamminen |
| SIGNATURE | TAMMINEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Automating Ethnography
Bio-objects
Rapid advances in the life sciences have led to a radical transformation in thinking about what life is: we now compose living beings as synthetic life, from the ground up. "Life" has been multiplied and fragmented in molecular and database form and can be embodied in anything from engineered organisms through organs grown outside the body to bioprinted materials. Such new forms of life disrupt social relationships, challenge boundaries between c…
Recoding Life
This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucault's biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. It examines a wide range of bioscientific knowledge practices that allow life to be known through codes that can be shared (copied), owned (claimed, and managed) and optimised (remade through codes based on standard language and…
Nationalism, Identity, & Consumption
Bio-Objects
The Anthropology of Wearables
A wide range of new digital products lumped together under the category of 'Wearables' or 'Wearable Technology' raises fundamental questions about the way we think about our individual bodies and the species Homo Sapiens. This paper traces three different relationships to what are called the 'wearables' and extends the notion to cover all material technologies that mediate our relations between various embodied practices and the world, and beyond…
Authentic, Original, and Valuable
The idea of genetic authenticity and origin has been an important issue within genetics for decades for scientific, political, and economic reasons. The question of where species and populations come from, as well as the linking of genetic traits to particular geographical locations, has resurfaced as both a scientific and political site of interest more recently through the study of population genetics in both humans and non‐humans. This article…
Bio-objectifying European bodies
The article traces the genealogy of the Minimum Information About Biobank Data Sharing model, created in the European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure to facilitate collaboration among biobanks and to foster the exchange of biological samples and data. This information model is aimed at the identification of biobanks; unification of databases; and objectification of the information, samples, and related studies – to c…
Nativitas
This paper explores the way in which national sovereignty is defined and constituted through the production of indigenous genetic resources and biovalue. Our central argument is that the commodification of vital matter is mediated through what we call processes of “nativitization.” Nativitization occurs at the intersections of nationhood and nature, particularly through national endeavors to define native biowealth, a process which is constitutio…
We have never been only human
Today, the impact of the work of both Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour is increasingly evident in anthropology, most notably in the subfields of medical anthropology and the anthropology of science and technology. However, so far the oeuvres of these two thinkers have not been compared in a systematic fashion in the secondary literature. The present consideration intends a sustained comparison of their work to the end of problematizing the notion…
The Virtuality of Virtual Worlds, or What We Can Learn from Playacting Horse Girls and Marginalized Developers
This article discusses the emergence of Habbo Hotel as a large-scale virtual world and its changing versions through time. We consider how social events taking place within the hotel are conditioned by designed-in symbolic resources and how, in turn, with creative processes of symbolization, novel social objects emerge out of particular interactions. We then discuss how the membership trajectories of hotel members are essential in understanding h…
We have never been only human
Today, the impact of the work of both Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour is increasingly evident in anthropology, most notably in the subfields of medical anthropology and the anthropology of science and technology. However, so far the oeuvres of these two thinkers have not been compared in a systematic fashion in the secondary literature. The present consideration intends a sustained comparison of their work to the end of problematizing the notion…
The Virtuality of Virtual Worlds, or What We Can Learn from Playacting Horse Girls and Marginalized Developers
This article discusses the emergence of Habbo Hotel as a large-scale virtual world and its changing versions through time. We consider how social events taking place within the hotel are conditioned by designed-in symbolic resources and how, in turn, with creative processes of symbolization, novel social objects emerge out of particular interactions. We then discuss how the membership trajectories of hotel members are essential in understanding h…
The Anthropology of Wearables
A wide range of new digital products lumped together under the category of 'Wearables' or 'Wearable Technology' raises fundamental questions about the way we think about our individual bodies and the species Homo Sapiens. This paper traces three different relationships to what are called the 'wearables' and extends the notion to cover all material technologies that mediate our relations between various embodied practices and the world, and beyond…
Authentic, Original, and Valuable
The idea of genetic authenticity and origin has been an important issue within genetics for decades for scientific, political, and economic reasons. The question of where species and populations come from, as well as the linking of genetic traits to particular geographical locations, has resurfaced as both a scientific and political site of interest more recently through the study of population genetics in both humans and non‐humans. This article…
Recoding Life
This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucault's biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. It examines a wide range of bioscientific knowledge practices that allow life to be known through codes that can be shared (copied), owned (claimed, and managed) and optimised (remade through codes based on standard language and…
Bio-objectifying European bodies
The article traces the genealogy of the Minimum Information About Biobank Data Sharing model, created in the European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure to facilitate collaboration among biobanks and to foster the exchange of biological samples and data. This information model is aimed at the identification of biobanks; unification of databases; and objectification of the information, samples, and related studies – to c…
The Virtuality of Virtual Worlds, or What We Can Learn from Playacting Horse Girls and Marginalized Developers
This article discusses the emergence of Habbo Hotel as a large-scale virtual world and its changing versions through time. We consider how social events taking place within the hotel are conditioned by designed-in symbolic resources and how, in turn, with creative processes of symbolization, novel social objects emerge out of particular interactions. We then discuss how the membership trajectories of hotel members are essential in understanding h…
Nativitas
This paper explores the way in which national sovereignty is defined and constituted through the production of indigenous genetic resources and biovalue. Our central argument is that the commodification of vital matter is mediated through what we call processes of “nativitization.” Nativitization occurs at the intersections of nationhood and nature, particularly through national endeavors to define native biowealth, a process which is constitutio…
We have never been only human
Today, the impact of the work of both Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour is increasingly evident in anthropology, most notably in the subfields of medical anthropology and the anthropology of science and technology. However, so far the oeuvres of these two thinkers have not been compared in a systematic fashion in the secondary literature. The present consideration intends a sustained comparison of their work to the end of problematizing the notion…
Authentic, Original, and Valuable
The idea of genetic authenticity and origin has been an important issue within genetics for decades for scientific, political, and economic reasons. The question of where species and populations come from, as well as the linking of genetic traits to particular geographical locations, has resurfaced as both a scientific and political site of interest more recently through the study of population genetics in both humans and non‐humans. This article…
Bio-objectifying European bodies
The article traces the genealogy of the Minimum Information About Biobank Data Sharing model, created in the European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure to facilitate collaboration among biobanks and to foster the exchange of biological samples and data. This information model is aimed at the identification of biobanks; unification of databases; and objectification of the information, samples, and related studies – to c…
Nationalism, Identity, & Consumption
Bio-Objects
The Anthropology of Wearables
A wide range of new digital products lumped together under the category of 'Wearables' or 'Wearable Technology' raises fundamental questions about the way we think about our individual bodies and the species Homo Sapiens. This paper traces three different relationships to what are called the 'wearables' and extends the notion to cover all material technologies that mediate our relations between various embodied practices and the world, and beyond…
Recoding Life
This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucault's biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. It examines a wide range of bioscientific knowledge practices that allow life to be known through codes that can be shared (copied), owned (claimed, and managed) and optimised (remade through codes based on standard language and…
Automating Ethnography
Bio-objects
Rapid advances in the life sciences have led to a radical transformation in thinking about what life is: we now compose living beings as synthetic life, from the ground up. "Life" has been multiplied and fragmented in molecular and database form and can be embodied in anything from engineered organisms through organs grown outside the body to bioprinted materials. Such new forms of life disrupt social relationships, challenge boundaries between c…
Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)