We, new utopians/Genome editing and echoes of future life

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. We, new utopians/Genome editing and echoes of future life. 2019.

Basic information

Original name

We, new utopians/Genome editing and echoes of future life

Name in Czech

My, noví utopiáni/Editace genomu a ozvěny budoucího života

Authors

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

2019

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Uspořádání konference

Field of Study

50404 Antropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/19:00123012

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords (in Czech)

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

Keywords in English

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

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Abstract

V originále

We are living in multiple bio-political potentialities, futures resonating ideas of life-as-it-could-be. Life and bodies seem to have become the materialization of various biotechnological utopias. For fifty years, assorted technologies for human genome editing and DNA repair/ recombination have been used. Particular techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9, TALENs, and zinc finger nucleases have been employed significantly in human genome editing and DNA repair in recent years. The current applications of genome editing and DNA repair technology have provoked significant attention and raised a number of ethical and legal questions. We analyze various economies of hope, hype, expectations, politics, and poetics of promises and better or worse predictions or moral panic from the point of view of sociology, anthropology, and science and technology (STS) studies. Miscellaneous futurities, as material-semiotic reconfigurations, are present in the topics of the current genome editing technologies.

In Czech

Workshop řešil téma editace genomu a debatu sociálních a kulturních důsledků inženýrství života.