Lively Capital

Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Editor)

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Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship of biotechnology to ethics, governance, and markets, as well as the new legal, social, cultural, and institutional mechanisms emerging to regulate biotechnology. The contributors examine genomics, pharmaceutical marketing, intellectual property, environmental science, clinical trials, patient advocacy, and other such matters as they are playing out in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Lively Capital is not only about the commercialization of the life sciences, but their institutional histories, epistemic formations, and systems of valuation. It is also about the lively affects-the emotions and desires-involved when technologies and research impinge on experiences of embodiment, kinship, identity, disability, citizenship, accumulation, and dispossession. At stake in the commodification of the life sciences are opportunities to intervene in and adjudicate matters of health, life, and death.Contributors. Timothy Choy, Joseph Dumit, Michael M. J. Fischer, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Donna Haraway, Sheila Jasanoff, Wen-Hua Kuo, Andrew Lakoff, Kristin Peterson, Chloe Silverman, Elta Smith, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Travis J. Tanner

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Bioethics
• Biotechnology
• Anthropology

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 02 avril 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822393306
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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LIVELY CAPITAL

EXPERIMENTALFUTURES TECHNOLOGICAL LIVES, SCIENTIFIC ARTS, ANTHROPOLOGICAL VOICES A series edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit

LIVELY CAPITAL

BIOTECHNOLOGIES, ETHICS, AND

GOVERNANCE IN GLOBAL MARKETS

D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

Edited by Kaushik Sunder Rajan

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ïntroduction: The CapitaliZation of Life and the Liveliness of Capital 1 Kaushik Sunder Rajan

PART I. ENCOUNTERING VALUE

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Prescription MaximiZation and the Accumulation of Surplus Health in the Pharmaceutical ïndustry: The_BioMarx_Experiment 45 Joseph Dumit

Value-Added Dogs and Lively Capital 93 Donna J. Haraway

Air’s Substantiations 121 Timothy Choy

PART II. PROPERTY AND DISPOSSESSION

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Taking Life: Private Rights in Public Nature 155 Sheila Jasanof

Rice Genomes: Making Hybrid Properties 184 Elta Smith

Marx in New ealand 211 Travis Tanner

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ĀIŚ Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria 228 Kristin Peterson

PART III. GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE FORMATIONS

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Diagnostic LiQuidity: Mental ïllness and the Global Trade in Ā 251 Andrew Lakof

Transforming States in the Era of Global Pharmaceuticals: Visioning Clinical Research in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore 279 Wen-Hua Kuo

Biopolitics and the ïnformating of Environmentalism 306 Kim Fortun

PART IV. PROMISSORY EXPERIMENTS AND EMERGENT FORMS OF LIFE

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Genomics Scandals and Other Volatilities of Promising 329 Mike Fortun

Desperate and Rational: Of Love, Biomedicine, and Experimental Community 354 Chloe Silverman

Lively Biotech and Translational Research 385 Michael M. J. Fischer

Epilogue: Threads and Articulations 437 Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Bibliography 453

About the Contributors 491

ïndex 495

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This volume comes out of a workshop, also titled “Lively Capital: Biotech- nology, Ethics and Governance in Global Markets,” held in November 2004 at the University of California, ïrvine. ï wish to thank the National Science Foundation, the University of California’s Humanities Research ïnstitute, the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at ûÇ ïrvine, and ûÇ ïrvine’s Division of Research and Graduate Studies for providing the funding that was reQuired to conduct the workshop.  ï next wish to thank the participants in the workshop for their com- mitment, friendship, and collegiality during the workshop; and for their patience through the long process reQuired to convert the workshop pro- ceedings into this edited volume. For me, thinking with, and learning from, other people is the most enjoyable aspect o being an academic, and ï could not wish for a better group o interlocutors than those who are a part of this volume. ïn addition to the authors of the various chapters herein, ï wish to thank Georey Bowker, Lawrence Cohen, and Cori Hayden, who also pre- sented papers at the workshop, but were unable to contribute their pieces to the volume.  My colleagues in the department of anthropology at ûÇ ïrvine deserve special thanks. As ï planned the workshop, ï received tremendous encour- agement from Jim Ferguson, who was at the time chair of the department, and that support and encouragement was replicated by every one of my other colleagues, many of whom served as discussants to papers at the work- shop, and all of whom contributed in signiîcant measure to making it a success. Bill Maurer also provided a careful and critical reading of my intro- duction to this volume, and ï have beneîted greatly from his comments. ïn addition, people from other departments at ûÇ ïrvine and elsewhere served

as discussants and interlocutors at the workshop. ï wish to thank them Bogi Andersen, Simon Cole, Jean Comaro, Marianne de Laet, and Sharon Traweekfor adding immeasurably to the conversations. Since the work- shop, Elta Smith has read (too) many drafts of my introduction as they were written, and ï have beneîted immensely from her patient, honest, and in- valuable insight.  A few people deserve special thanks for the execution of the workshop. Caroline Melly, Guillermo NarvaeZ, and Neha Vora were heroic in attending to every organiZational and logistical detail. Elta Smith transcribed the pro- ceedings, while Esra OZkan videotaped them, hence providing an invaluable archive that ï was able to draw on while compiling the edited volume and writing my introduction.  Since 2002 Joe Dumit and Michael Fischer had been discussing with me the importance of providing a venue where current work on the life sci- ences and capital could be discussed. They both had a big role in inspiring me to organiZe the workshop; in providing feedback on the various grant applications that had to be written in order to get it funded; in helping me outline and structure the workshop; and in being sounding boards at vari- ous stages during the preparation of this volume. More generally, ï recog- niZe now just how much my enjoyment in collaborative work and thinking is due to having had them as my dissertation advisors. Very early in my graduate career, Joe eagerly approached me with an article that had just been written on the political economy of genomics, which is what ï was planning to study in my own research. He then stopped and asked, “Are you one of those people who like it when other people are working on the same thing that you are? Because ï do. ï think it’s so much more fun to think with other people about my work.” ï know that such an ethicnot just of collabora- tion, but of friendship and of genuine engagement with and enjoyment in the work of othersis not necessarily the norm in the academy, and is cer- tainly not accounted for in the audit cultures that predominate in evaluating research activities and outcomes. ï am grateful that ï was immersed in such an ethic, because Joe and Mike taught me not just about anthropology, sci- ence studies, or social theory, but showed me by their examples the sort of academic that ï wanted to be. ï feel it is only appropriate that this volume is appearing in the “Experimental Futures” series, which they coedit.  ï wish to thank two anonymous reviewers for careful and detailed feed- back that has helped greatly in the production of this volume, and especially in the writing of my introduction. (One of them subseQuently revealed him- self to be Lawrence Cohen, who also, a few years previously, had the un-

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enviable task of reviewing the manuscript of my bookBiocapital. So ï have much to thank him for, not just in terms of this volume, but in terms of my intellectual development more generally. Much of my published work has been marked, and improved, by his generous and rigorous readings.) Asya Anderson has provided invaluable editorial assistance in compiling the vol- ume. Ken Wissoker, Courtney Berger, and Leigh Barnwell at Duke Univer- sity Press have been wonderfully supportive throughout the process, and Patricia Mickelberry has been incredibly thorough and helpful in ironing out wrinkles during the volume’s production. ï am grateful to be working with a press that has provided such a congenial and encouraging venue for this work, for my work, and more generally, for work in the anthropology of science.

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