{"product_id":"the-emergence-of-genetic-rationality-space-time-and-information-in-american-biological-science-18701920-in-vivo","title":"The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space  Time  and Information in American Biological Science  1870-1920 (In Vivo)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. Indeed  it is difficult now to consider nearly any facet of human experience without first considering the gene. But this mode of understanding life is not  of course  transhistorical. Phillip Thurtle takes us back to the moment just before the emergence of genetic rationality at the turn of the twentieth century to explicate the technological  economic  cultural  and even narrative transformations necessary to make genetic thinking possible.  The rise of managerial capitalism brought with it an array of homologous practices  all of which transformed the social fabric. With transformations in political economy and new technologies came new conceptions of biology  and it is in the relationships of social class to breeding practices  of middle managers to biological information processing  and of transportation to experiences of space and time  that we can begin to locate the conditions that made genetic thinking possible  desirable  and seemingly natural.  In describing this historical moment  The Emergence of Genetic Rationality is panoramic in scope  addressing primary texts that range from horse breeding manuals to eugenics treatises  natural history tables to railway surveys  and novels to personal diaries. It draws on the work of figures as diverse as Thorstein Veblen  Jack London  Edith Wharton  William James  and Luther Burbank. The central figure  David Starr Jordan - naturalist  poet  eugenicist  educator - provides the book with a touchstone for deciphering the mode of rationality that genetics superseded.  Building on continental philosophy  media studies  systems theory  and theories of narrative  The Emergence of Genetic Rationality provides an inter-disciplinary contribution to intellectual and scientific history  science studies  and cultural studies. It offers a truly encyclopedic cultural history that challenges our own ways of organizing knowledge even as it explicates those of an earlier era. In a time in which genetic rationality has become our own common sense  this discussion of its emergence reminds us of the interdependence of the tools we use to process information and the conceptions of life they animate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987020247093,"sku":"ByrdShop_0295987502","price":27.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780295987507.jpg?v=1770923013","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-emergence-of-genetic-rationality-space-time-and-information-in-american-biological-science-18701920-in-vivo","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}