HANS BKI.TIM; is professor of an history at Northwestern University. lie has written numerous boo... more HANS BKI.TIM; is professor of an history at Northwestern University. lie has written numerous books, including The End of the History of Art?, Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art, and The Inrisible Masterpiece, published by the University of ...
... If the portrayals of the modern city can be grasped as a construction site, then those of the... more ... If the portrayals of the modern city can be grasped as a construction site, then those of the ... Assuming that the grand narrative of history, which also held the metropolitan narrative together, encountered a ... of the past, it seems, no longer occurs anywhere but in the museum.28 The ...
... Literary Criticism ... Even the military threat in nuclear age imperialism no longer requires... more ... Literary Criticism ... Even the military threat in nuclear age imperialism no longer requires an accumulation of time for mobili-zation, nor can it count on a time schedule for destruction.37 With the atomic bomb, the "absolute weapon" (Virilio) has been found, and its implicit threat is ...
Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age, 2010
The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet the more we learn abo... more The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet the more we learn about our own biology, the less we are able to fit this knowledge into an integrated whole. Life is divided into new sub-units and reassembled into new forms: from genes to clones, from embryonic stages to the building-blocks of synthetic biology. Extracted from their scientific and social contexts, these new entities become not only visible but indeed "naked": ready to assume an essential status of their own and take on multiple values and meanings as they pass from labs to courts, from patent offices to parliaments and back. In Naked Genes, leading science scholar Helga Nowotny and molecular biologist Giuseppe Testa examine the interaction between these dramatic advances in the life sciences and equally dramatic political reconfigurations of our societies. Considering topics ranging from assisted reproduction and personalized medicine to genetic sports doping, they reveal both surprising continuities and radical discontinuities between the latest advances in the life sciences and long-standing human traditions.
HANS BKI.TIM; is professor of an history at Northwestern University. lie has written numerous boo... more HANS BKI.TIM; is professor of an history at Northwestern University. lie has written numerous books, including The End of the History of Art?, Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art, and The Inrisible Masterpiece, published by the University of ...
... If the portrayals of the modern city can be grasped as a construction site, then those of the... more ... If the portrayals of the modern city can be grasped as a construction site, then those of the ... Assuming that the grand narrative of history, which also held the metropolitan narrative together, encountered a ... of the past, it seems, no longer occurs anywhere but in the museum.28 The ...
... Literary Criticism ... Even the military threat in nuclear age imperialism no longer requires... more ... Literary Criticism ... Even the military threat in nuclear age imperialism no longer requires an accumulation of time for mobili-zation, nor can it count on a time schedule for destruction.37 With the atomic bomb, the "absolute weapon" (Virilio) has been found, and its implicit threat is ...
Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age, 2010
The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet the more we learn abo... more The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet the more we learn about our own biology, the less we are able to fit this knowledge into an integrated whole. Life is divided into new sub-units and reassembled into new forms: from genes to clones, from embryonic stages to the building-blocks of synthetic biology. Extracted from their scientific and social contexts, these new entities become not only visible but indeed "naked": ready to assume an essential status of their own and take on multiple values and meanings as they pass from labs to courts, from patent offices to parliaments and back. In Naked Genes, leading science scholar Helga Nowotny and molecular biologist Giuseppe Testa examine the interaction between these dramatic advances in the life sciences and equally dramatic political reconfigurations of our societies. Considering topics ranging from assisted reproduction and personalized medicine to genetic sports doping, they reveal both surprising continuities and radical discontinuities between the latest advances in the life sciences and long-standing human traditions.
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