Donna Haraway and GM Foods (EBOOK:PDF)
UK £3.99,
UK Publication September 2009
ISBN 9781848311381
Ebook
Page Extent 80
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Genetically modified food is a world-wide issue of public concern. Since the mid-1990s, genetic crises and fears have captured centre stage in the media, politics and ethics. The reason for escalating panic is obvious. GM food messes up the purity of natural divisions. To stick a fish gene in a tomato violates the boundaries between species. And it is a fatal step towards the eugenic engineering of humans that will produce a hybrid Frankenstein monster.
Donna Haraway, a leading international authority on science studies and author of the radical 'Cyborg Manifesto', dissects the genetic debate, from the Flavr Savr tomato to the cancer-programmed lab rat, Oncomouse. She asks the difficult questions, taking us beyond the frozen postures of enthusiasm and protest, into the ambiguous and unsettling terrain of cyborg hybrids, the spliced new beings who erase the pre-existing categories of 'human' and 'non-human'. George Myerson's exploration of Haraway's analysis takes us on a journey of far-ranging controversy, from Greenpeace and Monsanto to genetics, hypercapitalism, World Wide Webs and the dawning of the 21st-century 'FemaleMan'.
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George Myerson writes on contemporary culture and modern thought. He is Reader in English at King's College London.
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