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Revision as of 15:23, 22 August 2011
Another Technoscience is Possible: Agricultural Lessons for the Posthumanities
edited by Gabriela Mendez Cota
Introduction
When Foucault introduced the concept of biopolitics he referred to a historically specific power agenda involving a particular approach to life. This approach was at the root of the modern sciences of biology and political economy, both of which set out to describe, explain and manage their objects of study as abstract processes of production and reproduction. Agricultural science must be situated in relation to the biopolitical agenda of 'applying' the modern scientific approach to the management of social life. The scientification of agriculture took place in the United States towards the end of the 19th century through a process that entailed both a delegitimation of farmer-generated knowledges and the production of new, modern subjectivities. As farmers became entrepreneurs in need of scientific education and advice, newly trained agronomists devoted themselves to designing fertilizers, pesticides and hybrid seeds with the goal of maximizing yields. Public institutions were created which coordinated agricultural production with both science and trade policy. Agricultural science was thus inseparable from the process which transformed much of US agriculture into transnational agribusiness, and local farming networks all over the world into consumer endpoints of a globalized food industry. More
Another Technoscience... within Technoscience
1. Alison G. Power
Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies
2. Acácio A. Navarrete, Fabiana S. Cannavan, Rodrigo G. Taketani and Tsiu M. Tsai
3. Wagner Bettiol, Raquel Ghini, José Abrahao Haddad Galvao, Marcos Antonio Vieira Ligo and Jeferson Luiz de Carvhalo Mineiro
Soil Organisms in Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems
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