Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life

By K. Rajan. 2006

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Indigenous body parts, mutating temporalities, and the half-lives of postcolonial technoscience (2013, background): “…role in speculation about the promissory future of personalized medicine, the end of health inequalities, and the anticipation and prevention of disease, not to mention biosecurity (Bustamante et al., 2011; Lakoff, 2009; Lakoff and Collier, 2008; McInnes, 2011; Rajan, 2006; Rotimi and Jorde, 2010).”
Genetics and Social Inquiry (2009, background): “First, increasing numbers of phenotypically healthy individuals are transformed into beings who are “genetically at risk,” or “patients-in-waiting” (Rose 2007, Sunder Rajan 2006).”
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).”
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.”
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).”
Rethinking the patient: using Burden of Treatment Theory to understand the changing dynamics of illness (2014, background): “Being a patient has come to involve managed engagement with multiple healthcare practices that are consequences of the therapeutic revolution of the 1950s and 1960s [36], the emergence of a massive and global biomedical-industrial complex from the 1970s [37], and important developments in the life s”
THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY (2010, background): “Paul Rabinow’s biosociality, Marilyn Strathern’s call to think “after nature,” and various permutations of biocapital (Franklin and Lock 2003; Helmreich 2008; Sunder Rajan 2006) all lend themselves to multispecies inquiry.”
On the multiple frontiers of extraction: excavating contemporary capitalism (2017, background): “We have in mind what Rajan (2006) has called biocapital as well as the clinical labour (Cooper and Waldby 2014) necessary for its development.”