Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

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Series Editor’s Preface References Foreword: Thinking with the Biodigital References Introduction: Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies The Background to This Book What’s in the Book? Part I: Bioinformational Philosophy and Theory Part II: Emerging Configurations and Practices Part III: Teaching and Learning in Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies Postscript: Revisiting the Concept of the Edited Collection References Acknowledgements Contents About the Editors About the Authors Part I: Bioinformational Philosophy and Theory Biodigital Philosophy, Technological Convergence, and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies 1 A Philosophy of Biodigitalism? 2 The Great Convergence 3 The Technologization of Bioinformation 4 Scientific Crises and Social Implications 5 Biodigital Knowledge Ecologies 5.1 A Full Physical Integration of Biological and Digital Entities 5.2 A Coevolution of Biological and Digital Technologies 5.3 A Conceptual Convergence of Biological and Digital Systems 5.4 Technoscience, Biodigitalism, and Bioeconomy 6 Conclusion References Biodigital Becoming 1 Introduction 2 Developments of the Biodigital 3 Reason Past, Present and Future 4 Privacy Is Power 5 DeLanda and Assemblages: Distributed Agency 6 The Digital Ape 7 Braidotti on Posthuman Knowledge 8 Conclusion References Reconceiving the Digital Network: From Cells to Selves 1 Introduction 2 Back to Evolution: Cells and the Cybernetic Origins of Networks 3 The Biodigital and Evolutionary Biology 4 Vygotsky’s ‘Connection’ 5 Why DNA and Natural Selection Is Not a Good Answer 6 The Network Pathology 7 Skin Brains and Conversations 8 Operationalising Boundary Maintenance: Two Examples 8.1 Example 1: Analysing Boundary Maintenance 8.2 Example 2: Boundary-Preservation in a University 9 Conclusion References On the Collective Algorithmic Unconscious 1 Introduction 2 The Mechanosphere of Collective Intelligence 3 Algorithmic Collective Unconscious 4 On Collective Unthinking or Planetary Bêtise (Stupidity) 5 Romance of the Rhizome 6 Utopian Impulse 7 Noetic Necromass 8 Mechanosphere 9 World Philosophie 10 Closing Remarks References Technē and Indigenous Exosomatic Memory: Heidegger, Stiegler, and Cutting the Gordian Knot of Modernity 1 Worlding as Technology 2 The Anthropocene and the Entropocene 3 Exosomatic Memory 4 The Phases of Exosomatic Memory 5 Heidegger and the Modern Enframing of Thought 6 Passivity and Accelerating Informatics 7 The Acceleration of Technology 8 Accelerating Cybernetics 9 The Proletarianization of Epistemology 10 The Indigenous Epistêmê References Part II: Emerging Configurations and Practices Biodigital Technologies and the Bioeconomy: The Global New Green Deal? 1 The New Green Deal 2 The Scientific Backdrop: Biodigital Convergence 3 The Emergence of Bioeconomy 4 Conclusion References Agriculture 4.0: Bioinformationalism and Postdigital Hybrid Assemblages 1 Introduction 2 The Next Green Revolution and Digital Technologies 3 Gene Edited and Genetically Modified Crops and Animals 4 Understanding Agriculture 4.0 5 Postdigital Hybrid Assemblage 6 The Many Faces of Technobiopower 7 Conclusion References Maps of Medical Reason: Applying Knowledge Graphs and Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education and Practice 1 Addressing Biodigital Convergence in Theory and Practice 2 Ontologies, in Philosophy and Medical Practice 3 Knowledge Graphs, in Theory and Practice 4 Medical Informatics: Where Algorithmic Reason Meets the Semantics of the Body 5 Application Project 1: Medical Education 6 Application Project 2: Electronic Health Records 7 Reconciling the Bio and the Digital in Bioinformation References Cycling in the Time of the Biodigital: Small Acts Towards a Conscious Uncoupling from Non-regenerative Digitised Economies 1 Introduction 2 The Art of Disappearing 3 Situated Data in Context: The Wednesday Wobble, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK 4 If It Is Free, Are You the Product? 5 Privacy, Rights, and Invisibility 6 Biodigital Data as an Influencer and a Two-Way Street 7 The Myth of Digital Cleanliness 8 Conclusions References From Dead Information to a Living Knowledge Ecology 1 Introduction 2 Marx’s Seminal Account 3 From Marx to Libraries 4 Class Struggle in the History of Libraries and Information 5 Reversing the Trend: A Transformed Public Library Project and the Democratic Socialist Model of Development 6 Socialism and the Knowledge Proletariat References Part III: Teaching and Learning in Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies Postdigital-Biodigital: An Emerging Configuration 1 Introduction 2 The Many Faces of Postdigital 3 Postdigital Convergences 4 Postdigital Education 5 Biodigitalism as Technoscience References Digital Culture, Media, and the Challenges of Contemporary Cyborg Youth 1 Haraway and Cyborgs: An Introduction 2 Engaging and Theorizing Cyborgs and Cyberspace 3 The Objectivity and Subjectivity of Cyborg Youth 4 Critical Digital Literacies for Cyborg Youth 5 Conclusion: Cyborg Youth in the Contemporary Moment References Spreading Stupidity: Intellectual Disability and Anti-imperialist Resistance to Bioinformational Capitalism 1 Introduction 2 Bioinformational Capitalism and Actually-Existing Artificial Intelligence 3 Disabling Capital 4 Feel the Oppression: The Bioinformational War on Autism 5 Spectrums of Disability: Biological System Upgrades 6 Disability and Stupidity as Anti-imperialist Resistance 7 Organizing Anti-value: Spreading Stupidity References Decolonizing Racial Bioinformatics: Governing Education in Contagion and Dehiscence 1 Prologue 2 Introduction 2.1 Chapter Intent and Organization 3 Bioinformatics and the Biomediated Body 3.1 Biomediated Bodies and the Raced Subject 3.2 The Possibilities and Problems of Bioinformatics to Disaggregate Raciologies 4 Contagious Life: Dissipative Structures and the Virtual Possibilities of Disorder 4.1 Contagious and Mutative Bioinformatics 4.2 Disorder and Dissipation: Life in Death 5 Ontologies of Dehiscence and the Plasticities of Educational Governance 5.1 The Complimentary and Contradictory Desires of Biomediated Bodies 5.2 The Plastic Fantasies of Open Systems: Contagion as Excess Raciology 6 Excess Contagion: Virtuality, (Im)Possibles and a Decoloniality of Bioinformatics References Competing Pedagogies for the Biodigital Imaginary: What Will Happen to Teachers? 1 Imagining a Teacher in the 1960s 2 Why Should We Attend to Imaginaries? 2.1 Imaginaries Are Useful Constructs 2.2 Social Imaginaries Underpin Current Social Norms 2.3 Sociotechnical Imaginaries Have a Focus on Futures 2.4 Competing Pedagogies and Myths Are Influenced by Imaginaries 2.5 Social Imaginaries Could Have an Impact on Teachers’ Futures 3 Finding the Teacher in Neoliberal and Technological Imaginaries 3.1 Globalization, Educational Policy and the Curriculum 3.2 Infiltration of the Educational Imaginary During the Covid-19 Pandemic 3.3 The Algorithmic Imaginary 4 Teachers, Imaginaries and the ‘Not Yet’ Futures 5 Finding the Teacher in Ecological, Biological and Biodigital Imaginaries 5.1 Education in the Ecological Social Imaginary 5.2 Advances Hidden in Plain Sight: A Prompt from the Biodigital Imaginary 6 The Effects on Teachers of Contemporary Social Imaginaries 6.1 A Lens on the Activity of Teaching 6.2 Actions that Cannot Be Operationalized: Dialogue and Caring 7 Endings and Futures References The Global Pandemic Did Not Take Place: Cancellation, Denial and the Normal New 1 Introduction 2 Cancellation, Denial and Education 3 A Brief History of Simulation: A Lesson Too Late for the Learning? 4 The Global Pandemic Did Not Take Place: A Lesson from History 5 Meritocracy and Depersonalization 6 The Age of Vulnerability 7 (Not) Forgetting/(Not) Remembering 8 Conclusion: Beyond Our Depths References Postscript: Revisiting the Concept of the Edited Collection 1 Introduction 2 The Edited Collection – Openness, Collaboration, Trust 3 The Edited Collection in the Age of the Postdigital-Biodigital Convergence 4 What Is Next? 5 Revisiting the Concept of the Edited Collection References Afterword: Whither Bioinformatics in a Shifting Biosocial World? References Index