Intexto (Jul 2012)

Science and power over life: science fiction and biotechnology in films

  • Carmen Irene Oliveira,
  • Leila Beatriz Ribeiro,
  • Valéria Cristina Lopes Wilke

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 26

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This paper discusses the informational status related to a future projection about the future of biotechnology and the human body from the analysis of "Gattaca”. It focuses on discipline, biopower and information as the organizer and designer of a society which controls the body and the social corpus. In “Gattaca”, genetic information develops mechanisms of control, exclusion and distinction in a social system in which biopower is organized based on this dual level of information.This paper discusses the informational status related to a future projection about the future of biotechnology and the human body from the analysis of "Gattaca”. It focuses on discipline, biopower and information as the organizer and designer of a society which controls the body and the social corpus. In “Gattaca”, genetic information develops mechanisms of control, exclusion and distinction in a social system in which biopower is organized based on this dual level of information.

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