Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself

The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself

von Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld

314 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles – biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.

• Reihe: American Culture Studies
• ISBN: 9783837660043
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.12.2021
• Genre: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: transcript