Science and power over life: science fiction and biotechnology in films
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Information. Biopower. Discipline.Abstract
This paper discusses the informational status related to a future projection about the future of biotechnology and the human body from the analysis of "Gattaca”. It focuses on discipline, biopower and information as the organizer and designer of a society which controls the body and the social corpus. In “Gattaca”, genetic information develops mechanisms of control, exclusion and distinction in a social system in which biopower is organized based on this dual level of information.Downloads
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Copyright (c) 2012 Carmen Irene Oliveira, Leila Beatriz Ribeiro, Valéria Cristina Lopes Wilke
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