Nature Remade

Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds

Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, Christian C. Young (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-78343-7 (ISBN)

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“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.

Luis A. Campos is the Baker College Chair of the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Rice University. He is the author of Radium and the Secret of Life, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Michael R. Dietrich is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Most recently, he is coeditor of Dreamers, Visionaries and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Tiago Saraiva is associate professor of history at Drexel University. He is the author of Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism. Christian C. Young is professor of biology at Alverno College. Most recently, he is coeditor of Evolution and Creationism: A Documentary and Reference Guide.

Contents
Introduction: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young

PART 1: Control
1 Knowing and Controlling: Engineering Ideals and Gene Drive for Invasive Species Control in Aotearoa New Zealand
Christian H. Ross
2 A Tale of Two Rats
Anita Guerrini
3 Cloning as Rooting: Cultivating Oranges and the Jewish Settlement of Palestine
Tiago Saraiva
4 Harvesting Hogzillas: Feral Pigs and the Engineering Ideal
Abraham Gibson

PART 2: Knowing as Making
5 Design and Narrative in the History of DNA Analysis and Synthesis
Dominic J. Berry
6 Behavioral Engineering and the Problems of Animal Misbehavior
Edmund Ramsden
7 Engineering Spaces for the Biological Effects of Fission
Joshua McGuffie
8 A Matter of Taste: Making Artificial Silkworm Food in Twentieth-Century Japan
Lisa Onaga
9 Cybernetics without the Cyborg: Biological Modernism(s) in Biomimetics and Biomimicry
Richard Fadok

PART 3: Envisioning
10 Strains of Andromeda: The Cosmic Potential Hazards of Genetic Engineering
Luis A. Campos
11 Engineering Human Nature in the Genome Age: A Long View
Nathaniel Comfort
12 Engineering Uplift: Black Eugenics as Black Liberation
Ayah Nuriddin
13 Terraforming Planets, Geoengineering Earth
James Rodger Fleming
14 Resurrecting the Sublime
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Notes
List of Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
Zusatzinfo	24 halftones, 2 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	0-226-78343-X / 022678343X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-78343-7 / 9780226783437
Zustand	Neuware