Welcome To My Blog
My name is Katie Fischer and I am a senior at Portland State University. I am producing a blog for my science course on Biopolitics. This blog will incorporate my critical analysis of the class materials such as readings and lectures. I am hoping others will be able to engage in my discussion and comment on my ideas about genomics and the ideas behind the human genome.
SORRY IT IS HARD TO READ....I tried to make it bigger. I'll work on it :)
ReplyDeleteI like the use of the diagram (naturally...I am a fan of diagrams as is painfully obvious to everyone in the class) and it IS readable. Clicking on it enlarges it a bit. My only modification would be say that the "claims" usually define an object (an embryonic stage, a molecule,...) that is itself, at least as Latour sees it and we talked about today, a public object...becoming public as "it" is part of the activity taking place on all four loops. Thus for example, "embryonic stem cells" are at the same time: objects within a laboratory (the in-laboratory "mobilized" embryo characterized photographically, molecularly, by developmental capacity when ICM cells are transferred to cell culture; loop 1), perhaps differently characterized by different labs (second loop), given political meaning, defined as the object of a research grant from the NIH, the object of protection by a religious group (third loop), and displayed in numerous ways to and by the public (fourth loop). This, as you recognize, is the manifesting of chiasmus, of the messiness, of the unsettledness of just what (in our imagined example) "an embryo" "is".
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