tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post2041022265155356145..comments2023-11-03T08:02:25.369-04:00Comments on AmericanScience: A Team Blog: JAS-BIO, EvolvingDavid Roth Singermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12841041983824755867noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-68098873522302181442011-04-23T12:03:02.310-04:002011-04-23T12:03:02.310-04:00Hi Dan, with that phrase I was referencing Hannah ...Hi Dan, with that phrase I was referencing Hannah Landecker's _Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technology_. In the book, she makes a compelling case for thinking about biology as technology. She describes her approach as 'very specific work on the general.' By this she means looking at how attention to particular practices (like tissue culture) can newly illuminate major concepts like autonomy and immortality. Now, I recognize that this isn't necessarily the focus of Casey's collaborative project, but I have given a lot of thought lately to the exciting possibilities of a more explicit focus of the manifold ways in which technology figures in biological/biomedical knowledge production (beyond hist of molecular biology -- probably the only other sub-field to take it seriously). Casey was very general about what he meant by a focus on 'technology', so I also look forward to seeing how that project actually takes shape. Thanks for this question -- I think I see an entire blog post on it in our future . . .Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08492807162664423251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-17456540264280578852011-04-22T20:22:49.877-04:002011-04-22T20:22:49.877-04:00These are fascinating projects, all. Thanks to Joa...These are fascinating projects, all. Thanks to Joanna for letting the rest of us in on the meeting, and thanks especially for the little sum-ups.<br /><br />Regarding the first papers, I don't have a great museum experience to point to in my early life. But in high school, two institutions turned me on to the field sciences. First, I became the "wildlife expert" for my Boy Scout patrol---I boned up on skulls, tracks, and scats. Then I joined my school's <a href="http://www.nysenvirothon.net/" rel="nofollow">"Envirothon"</a> team and spent four years studying more wildlife, along with a smattering of soils, forestry, aquatics, and special environmental issues.<br /><br />Thinking about the second set of papers, I'm intrigued by your implicit historiographical call for work on the "consequences of technological intervention at the register of the biological." I'm trying to wrap my head around that. Can you offer another example of some work that does this well?Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217832960135325575noreply@blogger.com