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Sovereignty’s originary achievement is to have produced the bare life of homo sacer. This life is bare because it stands outside the legal order and therefore can be destroyed at any time.
Byung-Chul Han • The Burnout Society
Firsting in Research - Discard Studies by Max Liboiron
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Producing scholarly work about hula has also come into productive tension with established modalities of authority, rank, and training in
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
For these activists, it was important to pressure multiple actors, including lawmakers, government agencies, universities, and private sector firms, to change research and design practices, adopt new approaches, and implement new standards of care.
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
In a world of synthetic gene drives, the border between the human and the natural, between the laboratory and the wild, already deeply blurred, all but dissolves. In such a world, not only do people determine the conditions under which evolution is taking place, people can—again, in principle—determine the outcome.
Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Indigenous and local knowledge are in dialog with scientific techniques of agroforestry and disaster recovery; cultural and biological diversity are being found to be intimately connected.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
To delay, he echoes the language of nuclear technology, proposing a “pandemic test-ban treaty,” an international agreement to stop experimentation on the most pathogenic materials.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Havasupai Tribe sued Arizona State University after scientists took tissue samples the tribe donated for diabetes research and used them without consent to study schizophrenia and inbreeding.