Taking Responsibility for Cloning: Discourses of Care and Knowledge in Biotechnological Approaches to Nonhuman Life

摘要: This article examines the practice of animal cloning in relation to discourses care and responsibility, particular a common cultural interpretation theorized by Michel Foucault. figures as “pastoral” premised essential differences between carers objects care, its interspecies implications are increasingly drawing attention theorists studies. argues that, perhaps despite appearances, welfare form pastoral abstract conceptualizations animals that dominant biotechnology not mutually exclusive, but rather may be operating conjunction with each other, discursively working together naturalize ethics reinforce than question human dominance superiority. Specifically, mapping normative framework onto existing scientific orientation acquiring knowledge bodies produces definition is presumed both finite perfectible. Ultimately, critical analysis biotechnological manifestations responsibility enables theorization industry’s performance independently care-related claims about own practices, elucidation an alternative for assessing maintains distance from supposed “naturalness” or “unnaturalness” relationships such cloning.