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E-book Technopharmacology

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The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated ongoing transactions between twenty-first-century biomedical and informational technologies. The sight of hundreds of millions worldwide submitting their bodies to experimental vaccines suggests that the modes of human security laid out by Michel Foucault in his Collège de France lectures may in fact have moved into a new time-space. In his 1975–1976 lectures, titled ap-propriately “Society Must Be Defended,” Foucault spoke about how a set of political technologies called “biopower” initiated seamless medical and social projects to optimize life and secure it (2004). Biopower legitimizes periodic interventions within populations in order to preserve the larger social body. In the early months of the pandemic Giorgio Agamben argued that the restrictions in the name of health security suggested a “new techno-medical despo-tism” (2020). While Agamben’s statement was widely debated at the time, what is clear is that bodily, technological, and pharmaco-logical rearrangements have emerged worldwide. Bifo Berardi has similarly drawn attention to new sets of “automatisms” triggered by the pandemic: “health automatisms, techno-mediated dis-tancing, and psychological obsessions” (2021). More broadly, this suggests a significant modulation of “experience”: now animated by biomedical trackers, voluntary injectables, life extension therapies, and data visualizations. At the same time, vast populations have shown themselves eager to try experimental therapies for the pan-demic, while others have refused or been denied them altogether. In many ways the Covid-19 experience helps frame the title of this volume: Technopharmacology.This collaborative book centers on emergent affinities between big data and big pharma, broadly conceived. It brings together two significant areas of research that, at present, do not adequately speak to one another: engagements with networked technologies, digital cultures, logistical media, and a wide range of approaches to technologized life; and examinations of bio-economy and biotechnologies, drugs and pharmaceuticals, and a spectrum of issues tied to the economization, reproduction, and transformation of life itself. Bridging these dynamic fields, Technopharmacologyasks what is gained by examining media technologies in relation to pharmaceuticals and pharmacology, including embodied practices like swallowing a pill or being on social media, diagnoses of pornography or internet addiction, consciousness hacking and mundane smartness initiatives. Starting out from a critical media studies perspective, our book is a modest call to expand media theoretical inquiry by attending to the biological, neurological, and pharmacological dimensions of media. Such imbrications are found in concerns that our media technologies are drug-like, push harmful habits, and undo intimacies; the cohabitation of digital devices and drugs in practices of self-optimization, work, sex, and everyday life; the kinetic performativities shored up by platformed sociality or the mobilization of public affect; as well as critical engagements with neoliberal management, biocapital, and global “life support” systems (Vora 2015).

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No. Panggil

600 NEV t

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Germany : meson press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

143 hlm

Bahasa

English

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9783957960290

Klasifikasi

600

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Technology, Applied Sciences

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