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Polona Tratnik
Conquest of Body
Biopower with Biotechnology
1st ed. 2017. 2017. xviii, 100 S. 235 mm
Verlag/Jahr: SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING 2017
ISBN: 3-319-57323-3 (3319573233)
Neue ISBN: 978-3-319-57323-6 (9783319573236)
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This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related issues, including visualization, mediation, and epistemology.
The author offers a compelling thesis, arguing that the exploration of the human body has one ultimate aim: to gain knowledge of it and to conquer it. Exploration of body has an intrinsic link to power, since knowledge is constitutive for the power over the body. Ultimately the conquest of body means the power to intervene into life processes.
The book breaks new ground with its study of body visualizations, from the Renaissance drawings to the medical imaging. In particular, it investigates their complex mediality. It also considers the extension and the reach of biopower that is now possible thanks to a wide range of engineering applications.
The author originally questions the research approach by rethinking the relationship between mental and sensual examination. She takes into consideration the epistemological problem of the two modes of exploration: obtaining knowledge from empirical exploration and projecting that knowledge to the object of exploration.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Conquest of Body: Mapping, Knowing, Mastering
Project Transparency (Constructing the Window)
The Principle of Mimesis - Resemblance or Godlike Creation
The Technique of Perspective: Putting Order into Relations between Things
Maps and Exploration - Presaging Exploitation
Deep Body Essence
Anatomical Drawings in Renaissance: "Resemblance" Mediated by Rationalization
Mechanical Examination: Anatomy and Microscopy - Penetrating Deeper, Knowing More
Past and Future Maps
Focal Gaze
Towards Knowledge-Power - Anatomy in Service of Medicine
Detailed Maps of Generalized Bodies
Contemporary Medical Imagery - Focal Gazing at (a Representation of) an Ill Living Body
Gaining Power over Body
Genetic Program of Life and Intervention
Technical Images in Science as Means for Establishing the Truth
Creativity of Biotechnology
Collection of Identity: Body Prints and Identification
Solution of Life
Regenerative Body: Biopower with Biotechnology
Bibliography
Index