一门野性的科学?DIYbio和FBI之间的危险和混乱

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI:10.1177/0308275X231157559

Michael Scroggins

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在人类学和相关领域的理论基础上，我发展野性作为理解技术来世复杂性的一个镜头。概念的发展是通过对diy生物学(DIYbio)之间关系的案例研究进行的，非专业科学家在车库和厨房等新环境中试验已建立的重组DNA技术，以及联邦调查局(FBI)。由于缺乏学术界或工业界的制度性控制，DIYbio一直被联邦调查局视为对国家安全的潜在威胁，并由联邦调查局的大规模杀伤性武器局负责监管。尽管联邦调查局试图遏制DIYbio的传播和影响范围，但具有讽刺意味的是，它已经成为DIYbio在全球传播的主要工具之一。最后，我认为野性技术，那些具有意想不到的和潜在危险的后遗症的技术，是21世纪的象征。

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A feral science? Dangers and disruptions between DIYbio and the FBI

Building on theory within anthropology and associated fields, I develop feralness as a lens for understanding the complexity of technological afterlives. Conceptual development proceeds through a case study of the relationship between Do-it-Yourself Biology (DIYbio), nonprofessional scientists experimenting with the established technology of recombinant DNA in new contexts such as garages and kitchens, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Absent the institutional controls of academia or industry, DIYbio has been perceived by the FBI as a potential threat to national security and is policed by the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. Though the FBI has tried to contain the spread and reach of DIYbio, it has, ironically, came to be one of the main instruments of DIYbio’s global spread. In closing, I argue that feral technologies, those technologies with unexpected and potentially dangerous afterlives, are emblematic of the 21st century.

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期刊介绍： Critique of Anthropology is dedicated to the development of anthropology as a discipline that subjects social reality to critical analysis. It publishes academic articles and other materials which contribute to an understanding of the determinants of the human condition, structures of social power, and the construction of ideologies in both contemporary and past human societies from a cross-cultural and socially critical standpoint. Non-sectarian, and embracing a diversity of theoretical and political viewpoints, COA is also committed to the principle that anthropologists cannot and should not seek to avoid taking positions on political and social questions.