Introduction : changing life in the new world dis/order / Paul N. Edwards ... (et al.) -- The Terminator meets commander data : Cyborg identity in the new world order / Paul N. Edwards -- Bodies of knowledge : biology and the intercultural university / Scott F. Gilbert -- Genetic engineering, discourses of deficiency, and the new politics of population / Herbert Gottweis -- Contradictions along the commodity road to environmental stabilization : foresting Gambian gardens / Richard A. Schroeder -- Discipline or solidarity? Ecology as politics / Yrjō Haila -- Overpopulating the world : notes toward a discursive reading / Saul E. Halfon -- How do we know we have global environmental problems? Undifferentiated science-politics and its potential reconstruction / Peter J. Taylor -- Do Androids pulverize tiger bones to use as Aphrodisiacs? / Simon A. Cole -- Bubbles in the cosmic saucepan / Rosaleen Love -- Afterword : shifting positions for knowing and intervening in the cultural politics of the life sciences / Peter J. Taylor
Summary
Drawn from disciplines within science and technology studies and from geography, ecology, and developmental biology, the contributors offer a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities
