Sarah S. Richardson is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Science and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is the author of
Hallam Stevens is Assistant Professor of History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He is the author of
Sarah S. Richardson is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Science and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is the author of
Hallam Stevens is Assistant Professor of History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He is the author of
What Toll Pursuit: Affective Assemblages in Genomics and Postgenomics
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Published:April 2015
This essay re-reads key events in genomic and postgenomic history in terms of affect, exploring a dimension of the emergence of postgenomics often neglected in the epistemological, technological, or organizational approaches used by historians as indices of change. The essay contends that the postgenomic ability to rapidly and completely sequence genomes has been registered not only as a scientific, cognitive, or practical change by participants in these scientific developments, but also as an affective change. Whereas genomics was often troped as boring, postgenomics is marked more by signs of interest, excitement, and surprise. The essay also calls for historical accounts of the genomic life sciences that not only better appreciate these affective dimensions, but attempt to elicit them as well.
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