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Value, Speed, Commodification and Knowledge

Sub-Theme Leaders: Adrian Mackenzie and Larry Reynolds

At Cesagen we:

• identify, explore, analyse and engage with the continuities and changes at the intersection of life sciences and high-tech economies.
• track how dynamics of change embodied in genomic sciences, biotechnologies, and bioengineered constructs are perceived, lived, managed, intensified and refrained by technical, political, institutional, and commercial forces.
• explore value and how contemporary genomics and biotechnology figure as sources of economic, political, cultural, ethical and scientific value,  subject to contestation.
• question commodification: how biological knowledge, information, substances, systems, constructs, materials, products and things circulate through contemporary economic formations, taking on and resisting commodity forms.
• investigate scientific, commercial, regulatory, civic, biomedical, agricultural, engineering and media settings, addressing scientists and citizens, and seeking to develop ways of grappling with the complexities of scale, diversity and differences that pervade these problems



Barcoding Nature: Shifting taxonomic practices in an age of biodiversity loss
Claire Waterton

Biopiracy in Peru: Tracing Biopiracies, Theft, Loss & Traditional Knowledge (PhD Thesis)
Jodie Chapell

Bringing Standards to Life in Contemporary Biology
Adrian Mackenzie, Rebecca Ellis, Claire Waterton, Ruth McNally

Data flows in genomic and environmental science: Replication, durability and metrology
Ruth McNally, Adrian Mackenzie

Experimentality
Bronislaw Szerszynski

Genome Wide Association Studies
Adrian Mackenzie

Living Data: Making sense of health biosensors
Adrian Mackenzie, Celia Roberts and Maggie Mort

Multiplication of Databases and Sets
Adrian Mackenzie

Next Generation Bio-fuels
Adrian Mackenzie

R World
Adrian Mackenzie

Re-imagining Sustainable Agro-food Futures: Alternative (Bio)-Economies in a Knowledge Society Era (PhD Thesis)
Katerina Psarikidou

Standards: Recipes for Reality
Professor Lawrence Busch

Technolife
Adrian Mackenzie, Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir and Brian Wynne

The Protection of Traditional Knowledge in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Critical Ethnography of Capital Expansion (PhD Thesis)
Nina Moeller

Wiki-work as Biodigital Labour
Adrian Mackenzie

Genetic Fictions: Genes, Gender and Genre
Joan Haran

ICT Ethics
Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir, Paul McCarthy, Ruth Chadwick

Intellectual Property
Paul Oldham and Stephen Hall

The Imagined Transition to a Green Capitalism
Bronislaw Szerszynski and Larry Reynolds

The Publics of Bioscience
Joan Haran; Maureen McNeil