Worlding Biodata

Rendering Life in Complex Systems
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5305-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

This book offers a new conceptual framework for understanding biodata across different temporalities and global contexts. Moving beyond data as mere information, the authors explore how biodata reshapes human lives, scientific practice and global struggles for justice.

Bridging anthropology, infrastructure studies and technoscience, the book introduces a critical vocabulary for understanding biodata not just as a technical artifact, but as a set of lived, shifting relations that are embedded in histories of racialization, colonial dispossession and the digital transformation of health.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gonzalez-Polledo, Ej

Posocco, Silvia

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Wissenschaft, Technologie, Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Life in Complex Systems

2. Figures of Extraction

3. Sensing Infrastructures

4. Data for Good

5. In Vivo Systems

6. Desert Data

Über Autor(innen)

Posocco, Silvia
Silvia Posocco is Professor of Social Anthropology at Birkbeck, University of London.

Gonzalez-Polledo, Ej
EJ Gonzalez-Polledo is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

EJ Gonzalez-Polledo is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Silvia Posocco is Professor of Social Anthropology at Birkbeck, University of London.