Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era

By M. Cooper. 2008

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Securing with algorithms: Knowledge, decision, sovereignty (2017, background): “…of data as synchronic, or ‘real time’, notwithstanding its illusory and fragile nature (Crary, 2013), brings with it the imagination of a horizon of security in which the detection of new events can reject traditional statistical risk criteria and embrace emergent futures (Cooper, 2008).”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “I specifically highlight debates over the making of human bodies and body parts into new and contested forms of ‘property’ in the life sciences, a domain increasingly identified as the site of new forms of capitalist accumulation by a number of commentators (Sunder Rajan 2006; Waldby and Mitchell 20”
Preemption, precaution, preparedness: Anticipatory action and future geographies (2010, background): “That is, each threat may irreversibly alter the conditions of life at both the microscopic and pandemic levels (Hannah, 2006; Cooper, 2007).”
Rationalities of ignorance: on financial crisis and the ambivalence of neo-liberal epistemology (2012, background): “It suggests, as the Financial Times put it, that economists are shifting from ‘physics envy’ to ‘biology envy’ (Cookson et al., 2009).”
A socioecological fix to capitalist crisis and climate change? The possibilities and limits of renewable energy (2015, background): “…commodification of “ecosystem services”— have in fact been central to efforts to restore a flagging rate of accumulation by finding a new sort of “external,” generative domain for capital to appropriate and capitalize (see, e.g. Cooper, 2008; Harvey, 2014: 235; Robertson, 2004; Sunder Rajan, 2006).”
Relational Validity and the “Where” of Inquiry (2015, background): “As a result, “the tensions of capitalism are being played out on a global, biospheric scale and thus implicate the future of life on earth” (Cooper, 2008, p. 49, in Pierce, 2012, p. 24).”
Animating capital: Work, commodities, circulation (2019, background): “…processes and practices, co-constituted by the plurality (Castree, 1995; Castree, 2002), and innovative potentials of nature from the outset (Braun, 2015), whilst maintaining a critical take on the asymmetries generated by capital’s ecological turn (Cooper, 2011; Haraway, 2012; Rajan, 2006).”
THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY (2010, background): “…2003, Hartouni 1997, Helmreich 2009, Landecker 2007, Petryna 2002, Rabinow 1992, and Taylor and colleagues 1997; on labor and (bio)capitalism, see Cooper 2008; Fortun 2001, 2008; Franklin and Lock 2003; Sunder Rajan 2006; Thompson 2005; and Waldby and Mitchell 2006; on language, see Haraway…”
Life for Sale? The Politics of Lively Commodities (2013, background): “Recent work on biocapital and bioeconomies, or capital and economies wherein life is a central source of value (Cooper, 2008; Helmreich, 2008; Rajan, 2006; Rose, 2006; 2008), has tended to focus on pharmaceutical and biotechnological commodities such as microbes, tissues, and genomes.”
Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (2013, background): “Yet the periodic recreation of capitalism is accompanied by the imposition of the new limits inscribed in a new property form: in the case of biocapitalism, the exploitation of a new ‘surplus life’ (Cooper 2008).”