Book · January 10, 2023
The smartness mandate constitutes a new form of planetary governance, and Halpern and Mitchell aim to map the logic of this seemingly inexorable and now naturalized demand to compute, to illuminate the genealogy of how we arrived here and ... ...
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Book · April 6, 2021
Infectious Liberty is available from the publisher on an open-access basis. Infectious Liberty generatively reconceives Romantic literature as a set of counter-hegemonic techniques of biopolitical experimentation. ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Romantic Review · May 4, 2018
The concept of regulation was a key means by which many Romantic-era authors sought to understand and direct relationships among life, the individual, and political collectives: for example, Immanuel Kant contended that the Ideas of reason must play a “reg ...
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Book · January 1, 2013
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If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifi ...
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Journal ArticleBioSocieties · September 1, 2012
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Many commentators seem in agreement that the promise of the genomics revolution is to be realized through the creation of large-scale biobanks: that is, collections of human tissue and associated data from populations ranging from tens to hundreds of thous ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · January 2012
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Genomic biobanks present ethical challenges that are qualitatively unique and quantitatively unprecedented. Many critics have questioned whether the current system of informed consent can be meaningfully applied to genomic biobanking. Proposals for reform ...
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Journal ArticlePMLA · January 1, 2011
Suspended animation emerged as a concept in the late eighteenth century as part of the efforts of the newly founded Royal Humane Society to convince lay and medical readers that individuals who had apparently drowned might still be alive, albeit in states ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Romantic Review · October 1, 2010
Although the Romantic exuberance for plants has often struck later poets and critics as a naive, even embarrassing, enthusiasm, recent ecocriticism has correctly recognized this Romantic fascination with plants as an event - the emergence of something new ...
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Journal ArticleScience Technology and Human Values · May 1, 2010
The development of genomics has dramatically expanded the scope of genetic research, and collections of genetic biosamples have proliferated in countries with active genomics research programs. In this essay, we consider a particular kind of collection, na ...
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Journal ArticleConfigurations · January 1, 2007
While some critics have sought to explain the role of disasters in entertainment media by making recourse to the concept of fantasy, we suggest a different approach. Focusing on superhero comic books, we outline what we call a "logic of the anomalous." We ...
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Journal ArticleRomanticism on the Net · January 1, 2003
Identifying abolitionist poetry as an important site for investigating rhetorical transformations and innovations in late eighteenth century women's poetry, this essay shows how poetic language generates sympathy. In reading women's poetry in general, and ...
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