Biosociality and biopolitics: reconfigurations and controversies on nanotechnological hybrids

Authors

  • Jonatas Ferreira Professor Adjunto do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), coordenador do Núcleo de Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade, membro da rede de pesquisa ID – Inovação, Democracia e Desenvolvimento e pesquisador financiado pelo Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ)
  • Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro Pedro Professora Adjunta do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicossociologia de Comunidades e Ecologia Social – EICOS/UFRJ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re29.248

Keywords:

biopolitcs, biosociality, nanotechnology

Abstract

The new technologies of life, especially those operating on a molecular scale, open the possibility of an indefinite perfectibility of the human body. For some authors, we would be facing the technical solution of the old dream of immortality. Departing from another line of reasoning, we believe that such a claim asks for a preliminary question: what do the production and the reproduction of life mean in such a technological context? We sustain initially that the new technologies of life manipulation operate on a scale where certain culturally significant differences constitute a problem –as those between what is organic and what is inorganic, what is matter and what is information, what is alive and what is lifeless. The following paper aims to reflect about this twilight zone –space of convergence between biotechnology and nanotechnology– exploring political, ethical and cultural questions that lie under the perspective of a society that articulates itself around a literally molecular experience.

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Published

2022-09-12

How to Cite

Ferreira, J., & Leite Ribeiro Pedro, R. M. (2022). Biosociality and biopolitics: reconfigurations and controversies on nanotechnological hybrids. Redes. Journal of Social Studies of Science and Technology, 15(29), 177–196. https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re29.248