Postmodern Encounter Series: Haraway and Genetically Modified Food

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Features: This book is an excellent introductory read. The claims and soul-searching questions in it are not only representative of Haraway's voice but also the author George Mellerson's own. Even if you are not concerned with what Haraway has to say, as long as this book gives you a new perspective on genetically modified foods and the post-postmodern entities that follow, it has achieved its purpose. Genetically modified food is a global topic of public concern. Since the mid-1990s, the crisis and fear of genes have dominated the central stage of media, politics, and ethics. The reasons for the rise in panic are obvious. Genetically modified foods disrupt the purity of natural zoning. Connecting the gene of money to the gene of tomatoes violates the boundaries between species. And this will be a fatal step in the eugenics engineering of producing hybrid Frankenstein monsters. Donna Haraway, a leading international authority in the field of science studies and the author of the radical cyborg, analyzes the gene debate from the preserved tomato to the lab rats programmed with cancer—the. She poses difficult questions, guiding us beyond the rigid attitudes of fervor and protest into the ambiguous and unstable territory of the cyborg—the new existence stitched together that eliminates the prior categories of human and non-human. George Mellerson takes us on a wide-ranging journey of debate, from Greenpeace and Monsanto to genetics, supercapitalism, the World Wide Web, and the dawn of the 21st-century man.