Enhancement Technologies and the Politics of Life

Abstract

reconfigured, and reinvented to be used as a framework to deal with reality as a social reality that is to reign upon. Manufacturing life, thus, goes by a broader understanding of life that includes not only the living, from the unicellular (a genetic modification for example) to the multicellular (plant, animal, human being), but also the social life with all the seemingly non-living things (robots, organizations, etc.), surrounded, (re) configured, and infiltrated by the social. The articles in this special section place emphasis on the materiality of the socio-bio-technical impact on the concept of life.