TY  - THES
A1  - Grewe-Salfeld, Mirjam
T1  - Biohacking, bodies and do-it-yourself
BT  - the cultural politics of hacking life itself
T2  - American Culture Studies ; 36
N2  - 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.
N2  - Von Selbsthilfe-Bücher zu "Nootropics", Selbsttracking und Gesundheitstests für den Heimgebrauch, zum experimentieren mit Technologien und biologischen Partikeln - Biohacking vereinigt Biologie, Medizin und die materielle Basis des Lebens mit Praktiken von "do-it-yourself". Dieser Trend birgt das Potential die Beziehung von Menschen mit ihren Körpern und ihrer eigenen Biologie grundlegend zu verändern. Gleichzeitig entstehen dadurch neue kulturelle Narrative von Verantwortung, Autorität, und Differenzierung. Anhand vieler Beispiele untersucht dieses Buch Praktiken und pop-kulturelle Repräsentationen von "biohacking" und beleuchtet ihre mehrdeutige Position zwischen Empowerment und Voraussetzung, Versprechen und Vorschrift.
KW  - culture
KW  - representation
KW  - biology
KW  - medicine
KW  - biocultures
KW  - biohacking
KW  - biotechnology
KW  - cultural narratives
KW  - DIY
KW  - America
KW  - body
KW  - biopolitics
KW  - American studies
KW  - life sciences
KW  - cultural studies
KW  - Amerika
KW  - Amerikastudien
KW  - DIY
KW  - Do-it-yourself
KW  - Biohacking
KW  - Biologie
KW  - Biopolitik
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Körper
KW  - Kulturwissenschaft
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Medizin
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-8376-6004-3
SN  - 978-3-8394-6004-7
PB  - transcript Verlag
CY  - Bielefeld
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krüger, Hans-Peter
T1  - Der geistig-kulturelle Umgang mit der Covid-19-Pandemie und ihrer Wirtschaftskrise als Testfall
BT  - Zum Vergleich des globalen Westens und des globalen Ostens Ende 2020
BT  - comparing the global West and the global East at the end of 2020
JF  - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung
N2  - Why has the global West (North America, Europe) handled the covid-19 pandemic and the corresponding economic crisis so much worse than the global East (East Asia)? The crises demonstrate the degree to which the West is shaped by its forms of competition and the East by its forms of cooperation. In the West, we have become habitualised to American neoliberalism over the last two generations. In the East, varieties of neo-Confucianism and neo-Buddhism have been transformed into national cultures. The way humans understand their position in the world intellectually and react to crises according to corresponding habit makes an effective difference. The present comparison between global East and West makes use of Hannah Arendt's conception of politics and the shared world as well as of Helmuth Plessner's conception of mediated immediacy in forms of modern biopower. The pandemic is a catalyst within the decline of the West and the rise of the East.
T2  - The intellectual and cultural approach to the Covid19-pandemic and its economic crisis as a test case
KW  - self in cooperation
KW  - self in competition
KW  - future world history
KW  - global
KW  - history
KW  - biopolitics
KW  - biopower
KW  - shared world
KW  - mediated immediacy
KW  - Hannah
KW  - Arendt
KW  - Helmuth Plessner
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2021-0004
SN  - 0012-1045
SN  - 2192-1482
VL  - 69
IS  - 1
SP  - 67
EP  - 97
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -