We, new utopians. Recombinant DNA technology and other times
and spaces.

k 2019

We, new utopians. Recombinant DNA technology and other times and spaces.

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva

Základní údaje

Originální název

We, new utopians. Recombinant DNA technology and other times and spaces.

Název česky

My, noví utopiáni. Technologie rekombinace DNA a jiné prostory a místy.

Autoři

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva

Vydání

We, new utopians/Genome editing and echoes of future life, Goethe University, Germany, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50404 Antropology, ethnology

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova česky

tělesnost, editace genomu, heterotopie, Michel Foucault, rekombinace genomu, utopie

Klíčová slova anglicky

embodiment; genome editing; heterotopia;Michel Foucault; recombinant DNA; utopia

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 15. 3. 2022 10:15, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

ORIG CZ

V originále

The paper shows the outcomes and results of an ethnographic study I conducted in a biochemical laboratory during 2017 and 2019. Recombinant DNA technologies are understood here as the induced mutation, reconfiguration, and exchange of DNA strands to produce and design new nucleotide sequence arrangements. Using examples from the ethnographic research, the paper analyzes the context of these technologies, specifically relations among scientists, their emotions and their utopian visions in connection with living “techno-others,” edited proteins and their simulations, models and predictions. The main aim of such technologies is to explore, via experiments, the possibilities of repairing damage to human DNA, healing or enhancing human bodies and health in the future, in not-yet-realized, future bodies. These experiments are part of “machines for making the future” or the process of producing “epistemic things” as described by Rheinberger. Specifically, the paper focuses on technologies and praxis that deal with lifelike entities, bioinformatics life models, immortal(ized) cell lines, genetic tools, genes as tools, edited DNA sequences, and living things. Rather than analyze ideas of the constant fragmentation of bodies in time and space, I explore the relational character of some fractal distinctions, repeated again and again in the form of specific relationships and networks of biological material, DNA information, technologies, and also as the emotions and visions of scientists. But notions of immortality and the timeless character of biotechnological utopias are tricky. It is repetition, rather than duration. Is utopia another version of an infinity within the finite then?

Česky

Prezentace ukazuje výzledky z etnografického výzkumu z biochemické laboratoře.

Citovat

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. We, new utopians. Recombinant DNA technology and other times and spaces. In We, new utopians/Genome editing and echoes of future life, Goethe University, Germany. 2019.

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ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. We, new utopians. Recombinant DNA technology and other times and spaces. In \textit{We, new utopians/Genome editing and echoes of future life, Goethe University, Germany}. 2019.

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