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Nature Remade : Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
Title
Nature Remade : Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds / ed. by Tiago Saraiva, Michael R. Dietrich, Luis A. Campos, Christian C. Young.
ISBN
9780226783574
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (320 p.) : 24 halftones, 2 tables
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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In English.
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Summary
"Engineering" has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical approach, tracing cases across the decades of the long twentieth century. These essays span the many levels at which life has been engineered: molecule, cell, organism, population, ecosystem, and planet. From the cloning of agricultural crops and the artificial feeding of silkworms to biomimicry, genetic engineering, and terraforming, Nature Remade affirms the centrality of engineering in its various forms for understanding and imagining modern life. Organized around three themes-control and reproduction, knowing as making, and envisioning-the chapters in Nature Remade chart different means, scales, and consequences of intervening and reimagining nature.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2022
Series
Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
Part 1: Control
1 Knowing and Controlling: Engineering Ideals and Gene Drive for Invasive Species Control in Aotearoa New Zealand
2 A Tale of Two Rats
3 Cloning as Orientalism: Reproducing Citrus in Mandatory Palestine
4 Harvesting Hogzillas: Feral Pigs and the Engineering Ideal
Part 2: Knowing as Making
5 Design and Narrative in the History of DNA Analysis and Synthesis
6 Behavioral Engineering and the Problems of Animal Misbehavior
7 Engineering Spaces for the Biological Effects of Fission
8 A Matter of Taste: Making Artificial Silkworm Food in Twentieth- Century Japan
9 Cybernetics without the Cyborg: Biological Modernism(s) in Biomimetics and Biomimicry
Part 3: Envisioning
10 Strains of Andromeda: The Cosmic Potential Hazards of Genetic Engineering
11 Engineering Human Nature in the Genome Age: A Long View
12 Engineering Uplift: Black Eugenics as Black Liberation
13 Terraforming Planets, Geoengineering Earth
14 Resurrecting the Sublime
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
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