论神、精灵和人类:生物黑客和基因想象

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
M. Szewczyk
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我这篇文章的焦点是生物黑客的工作:主要是Josiah Zayner,他作为生物黑客、艺术家和公众人物的行动主义提供了一个有趣的镜头,通过这个镜头,人们可以探索当代的基因想象以及我们不断变化和变化的基因工程方法。这一描述的框架是通过分析纪录片和小说作品中当代科学技术的文化表现来确定的。在这篇文章中,我追踪并分析了生物黑客的活动与早期网络文化思想的关系,最显著的是生物生命作为信息的概念(可以编辑或“黑客”)和“黑客”的形象。我记得“扮演上帝”这句流行的短语,经常被引用与基因想象有关,主要是为了警告人们不要过度干预大自然。这个短语和警告本身似乎变得更加重要,因为基因工程的进步提高了可能干预的规模。最后,我在艺术家和科学家的相关图像以及他们在当代生活不断变化的现实中的作用的更广泛背景下,讨论了Zayner活动中艺术与科学的关系。这篇文章并没有假装完全分析甚至描述生物黑客活动的模式和含义。它的主要目标是更多地揭示与生物技术及其文化理解的快速发展有关的集体想象的当前变化。生物黑客的公开存在,尤其是Zayner的活动,为人类在自然界中的能动性以及艺术、科学和社会实践之间的关系提供了新的视角。
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On gods, pixies and humans: Biohacking and the genetic imaginary
The focal point of my article is the work of biohackers: mainly Josiah Zayner, whose activism as a biohacker, as an artist and a public figure offers an interesting lens through which one can explore the contemporary genetic imaginary and our changing and varied approach to genetic engineering. The framework for this description is set by an analysis of cultural representations of contemporary science and technology, both in documentaries and in works of fiction. In the article, I trace and analyse the ways in which biohackers’ activity is involved with the earlier ideas of cyberculture, most notably with the notion of biological life as information (possible to edit or ‘hack’) and to the image of a ‘hacker’. I recall the popular phrase of ‘playing god’, often quoted in relation to genetic imaginary, mainly as a warning against excessive interventions within nature. The phrase and the warning itself seem to have become insofar more important, as the scale of possible interventions had been raised by the advancement of genetic engineering. Finally, I discuss the relation of art and science in Zayner’s activity, within a broader context of relevant images of artists and scientists and their role within the changing realities of contemporary life. The article does not pretend to fully analyse or even describe the modalities and implication of biohackers’ activity. Its main goal is to shed more light on the current changes in collective imagination related to the rapid development of biotechnology and its cultural understanding. The public presence of biohackers, and especially Zayner’s activity, provides new visions of human agency in nature and of relation between art, science and social practice.
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