Tactical Biopolitics
Art, Activism, and Technoscience
Edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip
“Scientists and engineers, if they care for a better world, must more fully understand the consequences of their actions. Artists must learn more about science and take up the challenge of illuminating our technological world to those who are shaping it. Both communities, in making their work more accessible to the other, will benefit. Not everyone will agree with the politics argued here–but that is fine. The need for dialogue has now extended far beyond Snow’s The Two Cultures, and so has its urgency. Tactical Biopolitics takes up that challenge; it is one of the most stimulating books I have read in a long time.”
–Charles Taylor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
