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Nobody But Us
No full textPerformance Lecture & Seminar with Susan Kelly and Birkbeck School of Law Artist in Residence Margareta Kern. The performance and seminar assembles images and material that explore the connections between positive psychology, technology, governance and soft military power.
Nobody But Us looks at the techniques of persuasion, instruction, coercion and prediction used by companies who specialize in big data ‘behavioural change’ and ‘influence operations’ (SCL, Cambridge Analytica, Google etc.), and the history of ‘dual use’ civilian and military research that enabled them. The project interrogates histories of dual psychological and military practice in counter-insurgency struggles in the former British colonies where ‘rehabilitation’ techniques were used to ‘cleanse’ and re-constitute compliant colonial subjects
Annie Moore and the archives of displacement: towards an immigrant history of the present
No full textAnnie Moore, the first immigrant to enter the USA through the Ellis Island immigrant processing station, stands as an originary figure of the so-called golden age of European immigration to the USA in the late nineteenth century. The contemporary archivization of the Irish immigrant Annie Moore in the Ellis Island Museum, New York and the Cobh Harbour Heritage Centre in County Cork, Ireland repeats the democratic rhetoric of immigration which underpins the foundation of the USA, as well as the national imaginary of Ireland. Yet in so doing, this archivization effaces the hierarchies of race and class that have historically underpinned the democratic rhetoric of immigration. With reference to Jacques Derrida's work on the archive and hospitality, this article expands on a performance-based critical art intervention into the archivization of Annie Moore entitled 'Calling Up Annie Moore'. Focusing on the blindspots, ellipses and discontinuities which the archive represses, the article traces the different histories and experiences of immigration which the art intervention disclosed.<br/
“A different light”: examining impairment through parent narratives of childhood disability
No full textThis article explores narratives of parenting a child with impairments for insight into impairment as both a materially and socially meaningful phenomenon. Drawing from in-depth interviews with parents, a narrative approach is employed to explore the ambiguities of human impairment and embodiment as experienced by an intimate other. Parents’stories illustrate impairment as an intersubjective and intercorporeal accomplishment and illustrate multiple locations of meaning of impairment within the context of intimate social relationships. Narrative approaches have largely been identified with research on embodiment from the perspective of disabled people; it is argued that narrative accounts of embodied others may avoid dualisms of objective/subjective and social/natural that trouble current theoretical approaches to impairment
The ‘new genetics’ meets the old underclass: findings from a study of genetic outreach services in rural Kentucky
No full textOne of the most serious, but least examined, issues arising at the intersection of the 'new' genetics and public health is the relationship between social class and genetic burden. In the USA, concerns in ethics, policy and public discourses about genetic medicine and class structure have frequently been expressed in the notion of a potential 'genetic underclass'. The paper explores the usefulness of the genetic underclass metaphor for framing intersections of genetics and social disadvantage. Data are drawn from preliminary analysis of in-depth interviews with mothers of children affected with a genetic condition or illness, as part of a broader study of the state-funded Genetic Outreach Program serving rural Kentucky. The first section of the paper briefly considers the notion of the genetic underclass as it has appeared in medical ethics and policy literatures. It is argued that the mechanisms of access and discrimination to which the genetic underclass concept is attached are not likely to be those through which the new genetics significantly reinforces or exacerbates social disadvantage. Little direct evidence currently exists to substantiate the notion of a genetically unemployable or uninsurable underclass. However, theoretical dimensions associated with the underclass as it appears in social stratification literature do suggest ways of examining dynamics of genetic conditions and social disadvantage. In the second section of the paper, drawing from these dimensions and through cases analyses, issues and processes are identified that will be of importance to understanding relationships between social disadvantage and public health genetics.<br/
Genetic essentialism and social deviance: an anthology. 1st edition
No full textKelly discusses gay men and lesbian women's acceptance of medical explanations for homosexuality and explores the potential pitfalls in such an approac
Discussion. Toward an epistemological Luddism of bioethics
No full textIn the decades since its emergence, bioethics has become successfully integrated, institutionally and culturally, into contemporary processes of biotechnological production. Its success is in large part the result of the development within American bioethics of a strong principlist form that has had considerable influence on bioethics developments regarding biotechnology governance internationally. This article presents a critique of bioethics, drawing on insights from early work of Langdon Winner, as ‘human technique’ – organized to adapt human needs and purpose to requirements of biotechnological systems. From Winner it is suggested that present technological systems give rise to an ethics that is appropriate to their ends, and the norms, social relations, and values embedded in those systems are naturalized as central to life. Bioethics has not developed reflexivity concerning its relationship with technology, a reflexivity that is necessary for development of an ethics of technology that has the capacity to critically engage its subject. Winner suggests, somewhat whimsically, a process of “epistemological Luddism,” or the conscious dismantling of the relations of technology, as a mechanism through which human autonomy with regard to technological systems might be recovered. Implications for a reorientation of bioethics following this suggestion are examined
Choosing not to choose: reproductive responses of parents of children with genetic conditions or impairments
No full textSpace Matters
No full text4-person exhibition exhibition Space Matters at Neue Galerie, Innsbruck/Austria investigated the role of space as constant part of artistic practice and as the point from which new forms of social articulation and action arise. Four artistic positions explore the utopian, topological, emancipatory and sociopolitical potential of spatial theories and reveal a differentiated spectrum of issues
The ‘new genetics’ meets the old underclass: findings from a study of genetic outreach services in rural Kentucky
No full textEthical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and appropriate with the increasing amount of genetic information available; challenge our understandings of ourselves, our health and wellbeing, and the role of medical ethics, public health, surveillance and risk. However there has been little reflection on the socio-political effects of this new genetic knowledge and the changes in practice that are currently impacting on our lives.Containing contributions from key international researchers, this book examines the broader issues of genetic debates and looks at how prediction and risk assessment is being changed in the arenas of health, medicine and reproduction, bringing new insight on the dangers of surveillance, regulation and increased inequality. Developed out of the Taylor and Francis journal Critical Public Health, of which Robin Bunton is the editor, the book considers the implications of developments in genetics for contemporary liberal governance, as well as for the future of healthcare and public health
Public bioethics and publics: consensus, boundaries, and participation in biomedical science policy
No full textPublic bioethics bodies are used internationally as institutions with the declared aims of facilitating societal debate and providing policy advice in certain areas of scientific inquiry raising questions of values and legitimate science. In the United States, bioethical experts in these institutions use the language of consensus building to justify and define the outcome of the enterprise. However, the implications of public bioethics at science-policy boundaries are underexamined. Political interest in such bodies continues while their influence on societal consensus, public debate, and science policy remains ambiguous. This article presents a theoretical discussion of public bioethics bodies as boundary organizations and examines them in terms of relationship to the moral and cognitive authority of science and other forms of expertise, mechanisms for public participation in controversial science policy, and the deployment of consensus models. The theoretical discussion is examined in the case of the U.S. Human Embryo Research Panel. <br/
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