Life, autopoiesis, debt: Inventing the Bioeconomy

作者: Melinda Cooper

DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2007.9672937

关键词: Economic systemDebtPolitical economyAutopoiesisContext (language use)Late capitalismCapital (economics)BiopowerEconomicsCapitalismEcological crisis

摘要: This article considers the genealogies of ‘bioeconomy’ by investigating shifting conceptions life, debt and regeneration across disciplines biology political economy. Returning to post-industrial literature seventies, it seeks understand how perception economic ecological crisis fed into US's decision promote life science innovation as cutting edge its new strategies. There is an intimate connection, argues, between world oil crisis, US speculative reinvention life. In this context, a number methodological conceptual questions become imperative. When capital mobilizes biological, do we theorize relationship creation money (surplus from debt; futures promise) technological recreation life? capitalism confronts geochemical limits earth, where does move? What space-time—the world—of late are boundaries? finally, beco...

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