...Enigmatic Variations The prologue opens with the popular image of personal genetics in California as a contrast to the collective approach to genomic science in Singapore. It argues that a study of contemporary medical science in Asia should move beyond the binary West–Asia framework...

...Preface<subtitle>Theme and Variations</subtitle> ...

... lives lived as the object of colonial racism and those lived as its beneficiaries. This chapter reflects on how one might understand the social and political stakes of Serres’s attempt to find a universal ground for the variations of the body by putting Serres’s writings in conversation with those...

... culturalism constituent elements and features of scientific cultures culture as a problematic concept diachronic and synchronic variations ...

... ethnic heuristic Singapore Genome Variation Program DeCODE Iceland ethnic biomedical collectivities immutable mobile ...

... arise as a result. It then focuses on the constituent elements and features of cultures that appear essential to characterize a given way of carrying out scientific activities. A more global approach is subsequently introduced to illustrate the variations in scale at which analysis must be conducted...

... and sociobiology, two uses of the biological that see the function of social selection as the reproduction of order, this chapter advocates a new balance between variation and selection that is uncovered by a plastic reading of this new materialism. Althusser Darwin materialism ...

... This chapter takes as its object of analysis the city of Gurgaon, the largest hub of India’s call centers. Gurgaon is shown as an important urban variation that bears marks of the global age. It takes the functional logic of a modern city so far that it stops bearing resemblance to it. If global...

... In this essay, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley analyzes Haitian American performance artist MilDred Gerestant’s recent work, “DanceHaitianGender” and “Transcender.” Integrating the masculine and feminine variations of the lwas within Haitian Vodou, Tinsley maintains that Gerestant pushes against...

... are brought to bear on genomic data, they increasingly target aspects of genomes—such as their variation and their manifold spatial and temporal relationality in biological processes and function—that seem most distant and difficult to derive from the relatively stable, monolithic and hence tractable forms...