Mutant Ecologies - Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital

How capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life

List of contents

Introduction

1. Life's Inner Workings

2. Manufacturing Lives

3. Genomic Infrastructures

4. Crispr Assembly Lines

5. Molecular Factory Farms

6. Engineering Extinction Ecologies

7. Pharmaceutical Lives

8. Bioengineering the Human

Conclusion

About the author

Erica Borg is a geographer and political ecologist based at King's College, London. Their research focuses on the relations between capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and ecological crisis.
Amedeo Policante is a Researcher at the Nova University of Lisbon. His writings interrogate the nexus of extraction, exploitation and expropriation that fuels the contemporary world market. He is the author of two books: The Pirate Myth and The New Mercenaries.

Summary

How capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life

Product details

• Authors: Erica Borg, Erica Policante Borg, Amedeo Policante, Amedeo (University of Oldenburg) Policante, Policante Amedeo
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780745344522
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4452-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, Capitalism, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Biodiversity, Genetic Engineering, United States of America, USA, Economic systems & structures, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise & Capitalism, Chemical & biological weapons, Chemical and biological weapons