Bios Technika: A Web-Based Platform for Multimedia Inquiry in Anthropology, Synthetic Biology, and Ethics

Bios Technika：人类学、合成生物学和伦理学多媒体查询的网络平台

• 批准号: 1026087
• 负责人: Paul Rabinow
• 金额: $ 29.22万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1026087&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bios; Technika; Web; Based; Platform

The goal of the Bios Technika project is to produce, experiment with, and evaluate a web-based platform for the facilitation of inquiry into the ethical and social dimensions of emergent technologies. Bios Technika will be designed to operate in tandem with developments in contemporary biotechnology, initially synthetic biology. It seeks to enable collaborative research into the moral landscape of post-genomic science and technology.Our goal is to develop Bios Technika to support and advance research currently underway on the ramifications of synthetic biology. If today there is a broad consensus that there is a compelling need for scientists to rethink their understanding of the gene, then, in a parallel fashion, we argue that there is an equally compelling need to rethink the cornerstone concept of ELSI: social consequences. Social consequences entails a downstream positioning of ethics and the human sciences, imposing an arbitrary hierarchy in which research somehow takes place outside of the conditions and constraints of the larger community. Contemporary post-genomic research programs can no longer be constituted as they were in the recent past: interdisciplinary biological science and human practices must be brought into a more productive adjacency if we are to create scientific knowledge in a democratic and ethical fashion.In this light, Bios Technika builds on and hopes to extend: theoretical and empirical advances in the social studies of science, advances in data visualization using open-source media, and conceptual and practical developments in ethics. The project seeks to give form to the insights of multi-sited problem-centered social science, through rigorous conceptual frameworks and visual media technologies. Specifically, it will provide a distinctive media platform for undertaking a pragmatic testing of an approach that has been labeled the "anthropology of the contemporary."

Bios Technika项目的目标是制作、试验和评估一个基于网络的平台，以促进对新兴技术的伦理和社会层面的调查。Bios Technika的设计将与当代生物技术的发展同步进行，最初是合成生物学。我们的目标是发展Bios Technika，以支持和推进目前正在进行的合成生物学分支研究。如果今天有一个广泛的共识，即科学家迫切需要重新思考他们对基因的理解，那么，以一种平行的方式，我们认为，同样迫切需要重新思考ELSI的基石概念：社会后果。社会后果意味着伦理学和人文科学的下游定位，强加了一种任意的等级制度，研究以某种方式在更大社区的条件和限制之外进行。当代后基因组研究计划不能再像过去那样构成：如果我们要以民主和道德的方式创造科学知识，跨学科生物科学和人类实践必须进入一个更富有成效的邻接。在这方面，Bios Technika建立并希望扩展：科学社会研究的理论和经验进展，使用开源媒体的数据可视化的进展，以及伦理学的概念和实践发展。该项目旨在通过严格的概念框架和视觉媒体技术，形成以问题为中心的多站点社会科学的见解。具体而言，它将提供一个独特的媒体平台，对被称为“当代人类学”的方法进行务实的测试。"