Multiple Perspectives on the Study of Life

Multiple Perspectives on the Study of Life

Biopolitics, Bioethics, Aesthetics

The infinite multiplicity of existing life forms calls for equally multiple approaches to studying the living. However, no approach will ever be capable of exhausting the various perspectives required for research on life. This impossibility is not only given by the unmanageable task of establishing an infinitely multidisciplinary approach but also by the diverse and ever-changing subject matters that can potentially fall under the category of the living. This book is nevertheless an e ort in that direction: acknowledging a multiplicity of ways in which life forms may be studied, and a diversity of disciplinary perspectives suited for this task.

Introduction

Multiplicity. Life. Politics


Part 1

Technics, Art, and Politics:

Aesthetic Forms of Life


Chapter 1

Scientific drawing and the microcosm: A cross-pollination


Chapter 2

Music in technopolis: Correlates of communicative practices mediated by music between living beings and machines


Chapter 3

Art and the question of alienated life: Marx, Adorno-Horkheimer and Godard


Chapter 4

Imagination and the modern world: Between an impoverished experience of life and an aesthetics of liberation


Chapter 5

Art reduced to its hedonic function by neuroscience, to the detriment of social issues


Part 2

The Problem of Nature: Between Biopolitics and Bioethics


Chapter 6

Exploitation and domination of nature: Adorno as critic of Marx


Chapter 7

The alive and the living: Between bíos and zoé


Chapter 8

Rhizome, symbiogenesis, and the living deterritorialization of the human: Deleuze-Guattari and Lynn Margulis


Chapter 9

Innovative drugs for cancer: The Colombian case

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