ISBN:
9781478024521
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Experimental Futures Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Genomics Research
;
Ethnology Methodology
;
Feminist anthropology
;
Feminist theory
;
Science Social aspects
;
Ethnology-Methodology
;
Science-Social aspects
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
;
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Abstract:
Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, and statistics, and ethics.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Poem-Like Tolls 1. A Prelude -- Part I. Genomics, Double Binds, Affects -- 1. Fors -- 2. Labyrinth Life. Affect Excess Infrastructure -- 3. Double Binds of Science -- Poem-Like Tolls 2. An Interlude -- Part II. Minding the Infrastructures of Genomics -- 4. Curation. Of Data's Limit -- 5. Scrupulousness. Of Experiment's Limit -- 6. Solicitude. Of Science's Limit -- 7. Friendship. Of Community's Limit -- Poem-Like Tolls 3. An Appendix -- Postscript -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
"Genomics with Care is an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics research. Mike Fortun offers a way of analyzing science as an amalgam of thought and affect, formal method and tacit knowledge, algorithms and ethics. The book privileges the concept of care within science and, in doing so, draws on recent feminist scholarship in anthropology, philosophy, and science studies. Fortun explores the sometimes pathological, sometimes creative, and always paradoxical nature of the double binds of science and care. He conceptualizes four different modes of care in science: curation, scrupulousness, solicitude, and friendship. He approaches these concepts through the book's dominant method of what he terms 'ethnogrammatology': a combined ethnographic and deconstructive reading. The book is written in the spirit of experimental ethnography to convey how the sciences, and the doing of science, is a matter of the tight, intimate, but uneasy relationship between thinking, caring, and affect"--
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