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dc.contributor.authorVaage, Nora Sørensen
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-16T13:47:21Z
dc.date.available2020-06-16T13:47:21Z
dc.date.created2020-01-22T19:46:40Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationVaage, N. S. (2020). Living machines: Metaphors we live by. NanoEthics, 14, 57–70. doi:en_US
dc.identifier.issn1871-4765
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2658297
dc.description.abstractWithin biology and in society, living creatures have long been described using metaphors of machinery and computation: ‘bioengineering’, ‘genes as code’ or ‘biological chassis’. This paper builds on Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) argument that such language mechanisms shape how we understand the world. I argue that the living machines metaphor builds upon a certain perception of life entailing an idea of radical human control of the living world, looking back at the historical preconditions for this metaphor. I discuss how design is perceived to enable us to shape natural beings to our will, and consider ethical, epistemological and ontological implications of the prevalence of this metaphor, focusing on its use within synthetic biology. I argue that we urgently need counter-images to the dominant metaphor of living machines and its implied control and propose that artworks can provide such counter-images through upsetting the perception of life as controllable. This is argued through discussion of artworks by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, by Tarsh Bates and by Ai Hasegawa, which in different ways challenge mechanistic assumptions through open-ended engagement with the strangeness and messiness of life.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleLiving machines : Metaphors we live byen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2019 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160::Filosofi: 161en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400en_US
dc.source.pagenumber57-70en_US
dc.source.volume14en_US
dc.source.journalNanoEthicsen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11569-019-00355-2
dc.identifier.cristin1780452
dc.description.localcodePaid Open Accessen_US


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