A Schizoanalysis of Emerging Biotechnologies
Renaturalized Nature, the Disclosed Secret of Life, and Technologically Authentic Selfhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5158351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamar Sharon (0000-0003-0155-9220, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 431-460 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Configurations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1801 • E-ISSN: 1080-6520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/con.2011.0024 |
| OpenAlex | W2091980391 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
The essay argues that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's schizoanalysis is a particularly helpful means of framing critical readings of emerging biotechnologies. It not only offers a terminology for articulating the tension between the deconstructive and destabilizing effects of new technologies versus their potential to reinforce traditional patterns of power, it can also push these analyses further. The complex movements of de- and reterritorialization-in which reterritorialization is never just the reconstitution of a system of meaning that has been unsettled by schizophrenic energies, but is always the production of a new one, in which deterritorialized elements connect in different ways-can help us account for the richness of new meanings and uses of foundational terms. The important question then becomes not how and if deterritorialized elements are being reterritorialized, but rather if the reterritorializations that are taking place are positive or negative ones. Drawing on some recent ethnographic work that focuses on how users integrate and normalize the use of different biomedical technologies, the essay discusses how foundational terms are de- and reterritorialized in three examples: nature in the context of assisted reproduction, life in the genomic sciences, and authentic self-hood in the context of the neurosciences
Aesthetics · Emerging technologies · Epistemology · Linguistics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Terminology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy
Picturing Personhood
How We Became Posthuman
The Sequence of the Human Genome
The visible human project
Self-making and the brain
Global Nature, Global Culture
How the leopard changed its spots
Nomadic subjects
Cybersexualities
The Order of Things
Becoming as Creative Involution
Towards a philosophy of microbiology
The Infertility Clinic and the Birth of the Lesbian
Taking care of one’s brain
The nature of Prozac
Blood Is Thicker than Water
Clones and Clones
What Is Philosophy
Constituting neurologic subjects
Led (astray) by genetic maps
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Reflexing Complexity
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Culture Change
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |