CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Babintseva, Ekaterina |
|---|---|
| Title | Machine in a Biopolitical State: Reconfiguring the Human by the Means of Science and Technology |
| Summary | This thesis examines the concept of anthropological machine introduced by political philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Through a close reading of his work The Open: Man and Animal I define anthropological machine as an assemblage of sciences about human biology, technologies that target human biological life and the attitude to human biological life as to the entity that can be managed and controlled. Turning to the theories of Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway and Francis Fukuyama I examine what meaning to science and technology they ascribe in their philosophy. I conclude that in a biopolitical state, where human life becomes a commodity and a part of social, economic and trade relations, science and technology have the capacity not only for the mere management of human biology, but also for the reconfiguration of what constitutes for the human and what stands for the non-human. |
| Supervisor | Cerwonka, Allaine |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/babintseva_ekaterina.pdf |
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