BIOHACKING, BODIES AND DO-IT-YOURSELF : the cultural politics of hacking life itself.

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Author / Creator:GREWE-SALFELD, MIRJAM.
Imprint:[S.l.] : TRANSCRIPT VERLAG, 2021.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12942681
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ISBN:9783839460047
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From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.

Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9783839460047
3839460042
3837660044
9783837660043