Changing Life

出版者:University of Minnesota Press

作者:Halforn, Saul E.; Taylor, Peter J.; Halfon, Saul

页数:240

出版时间:1997-09

价格:USD 59.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780816630127

In laboratories all over the world, life -- even the idea of life -- is changing. And with these changes, whether they result in square tomatoes or cyborgs, come transformations in our social order -- sometimes welcome, sometimes troubling. Changing Life offers a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities.These essays -- about planetary management and genome sequencing, ecologies and cyborgs -- address actual and imagined transformations at the center and at the margins of transnational relations, during the post-Cold War era and in times to come.