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In laboratories all over the world, life even the idea of life is changing. And with these changes, whether they result in square tomatoes or cyborgs, come transformations in our social order - sometimes welcome, sometimes troubling, depending on where we stand. This text offers a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities.
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Taylor is professor in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University, England.
Paul N. Edwards is Professor in the School of Information and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America" (1996) and a coeditor (with Clark Miller) of "Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance" (2001), both published by the MIT Press.
Paul N. Edwards is Professor in the School of Information and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America" (1996) and a coeditor (with Clark Miller) of "Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance" (2001), both published by the MIT Press.
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- PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0816630127
- ISBN 13 9780816630127
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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