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Reading list / References list
Here you can find an extensive interdisciplinary reference list that includes books and articles on several topics to support different course structures and challenges. The list also includes suggestions of artists, artistic projects and other sources of information that can be useful to promote our and your students’ exploration of several cross-disciplinary subjects.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY / BIOTECHNOLOGY
Alberts, B., Johnson, A., Lewis, L., Raff, M., Roberts, K., & Walter, P. (2002). Molecular Biology of the Cell (4th editio). Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21054/
Dean, A. C. R., & Hinshelwood, C. (1965). Cell division. Nature, 206(4984), 546–553. https://doi.org/10.1038/206546a0
Franklin, S. (1995). Romancing the Helix: Nature and Scientific Discovery. In L. Pearce & J. Stacey (Eds.), Romance Revisited (pp. 63–77). London: Lawrence & Wishart.
Haraway, D. (1979). The biological enterprise: sex, mind, and profit from human engineering to sociobiology. Radical History Review, Spec, 206–237. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1979-20-206
Lander, E. S. (2016). The Heroes of CRISPR. Cell, 164(1–2), 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.041
Nicholson, D. J. (2010). Biological atomism and cell theory. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 41(3), 202–211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.07.009
Resende, L. P., Monteiro, A., Brás, R., Lopes, T., & Sunkel, C. E. (2018). Aneuploidy in intestinal stem cells promotes gut dysplasia in Drosophila. Journal of Cell Biology, 217(11), 3930–3946. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201804205
ART & SCIENCE
Artnodes: E-journal on art, science and technology (Vol. 27). (2021). Retrieved from https://artnodes.uoc.edu
Anker, S. (2014). The beginnings and the ends of bio art. Artlink, 34(3), 16.
Anker, S. (2000). Gene Culture: Molecular Metaphor in Visual Art. Leonardo, 33(5), 371–375. https://doi.org/10.1162/002409400552856
Berger, E., Mäki- Reinikka, K., O’Reilly, K., & Sederholm, H. (Eds.). (2020). Art as we don’t know it (1st Editio). Tallin, Estonia: Aalto University.
Bullot, N. J., Seeley, W. P., & Davies, S. (2017). Art and Science: A Philosophical Sketch of Their Historical Complexity and Codependence. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 75(4), 453–463. https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12398
Catts, O., & Zurr, I. (2013). Disembodied livestock: The promise of a semi-living utopia. Parallax, 19(1), 101–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2013.752062
Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience. (2008). In B. Costa & K. Philip (Eds.), Media. Retrieved from http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11473
Davis, J. (2007). Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond (E. Kac, Ed.). Retrieved from https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/signs-life
Etxeberria, D. (2015). META-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, Alife and the Arts META-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts edited by Annick Bureaud, Roger F. Malina and Louise
Mackenzie, L. (2019). Zone of Inhibition: relating to the single cell through speculative performance practice. Public, 31(59), 56–59.
Radomska, M. (2016). Uncontainable Life: A Biophilosophy of Bioart. In Uncontainable Life : A Biophilosophy of Bioart. https://doi.org/10.3384/diss.diva-126670
Reichle, I. (2014). Speculative biology in the practices of bioart. Artlink, 34(3), 32–35.
Schnugg, C. (2019). Bring ArtScience Collaborations: Bringing Value to Organizations (1st ed.). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04549-4
Simoniti, V. (2019). The living image in bio-art and in philosophy. Oxford Art Journal, 42(2), 177–196. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcz007
Sormani, P., Carbone, G., & Gisler, P. (2019). Practicing Art / Science: Experiments in an emerging field (1st Ed.; P. Sormani, G. Carbone, & P. Gisler, Eds.). New York: Routledge.
Stracey, F. (2009). Bio-art: the ethics behind the aesthetics. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 10(7), 496–500. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm2699
Tratnik, P. (2017). Maja Smrekar’s Biopolitical Manifesto from a Philosophical Perspective. Monitor ISH, 19(2), 65–80. https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.19.2.65-80(2017)
Yetisen, A. K., Davis, J., Coskun, A. F., Church, G. M., & Yun, S. H. (2015). Bioart. Trends in Biotechnology, 33(12), 724–734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2015.09.011
Zylinska, J. (2009). Bioethics in the Age of New Media. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262240567.001.0001
SOCIAL SCIENCES / HUMANITIES
Tratnik, P. (2020). Anthropocentric and Non-Anthropocentric Perspectives of Proteus Anguinus, Axolotl, Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, and their environmental systems. Phainomena, 29(112–113), 271–287. https://doi.org/10.32022/PHI29.2020.112-113.X
Sullivan, N., & Murray, S. (Eds.). (2009). Somatechnics: Queering the technologisation of Bodies. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Somatechnics-Queering-the-Technologisation-of-Bodies/Murray-Sullivan/p/book/9781138276871
O’Malley, M. A., & Müller-Wille, S. (2010). The cell as nexus: Connections between the history, philosophy and science of cell biology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 41(3), 169–171. https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.07.005
Mayberry, M., Subramaniam, B., & H. Weasel, L. (Eds.). (2001). Feminist Science Studies (1st ed.). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203614266
Lykke, N. (2000). Are Cyborgs Queer? Biological determinism and feminist theory in the age of new reproductive technologies and reprogenetics. Fourth European Feminist Research Conference, p. 16. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-32269
Hird, M. J. (2009). Biologically Queer. In N. Giffney & M. Noreen Giffney (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315613482
Hird, M. J. (2012). Digesting Difference: Metabolism and the Question of Sexual Difference. Configurations, 20, 213–238. https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2012.0019
Braidotti, R., & Hlavajova, M. (Eds.). (2018). Posthuman Glossary (1st ed.). Retrieved from https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/posthuman-glossary-9781350030244/
A feminist companion to the posthumanities. (2018). In C. Åsberg & R. Braidotti (Eds.), A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62140-1
HUMAN ANIMAL RELATIONS
Agnvall, B., Bélteky, J., Katajamaa, R., & Jensen, P. (2018). Is evolution of domestication driven by tameness? A selective review with focus on chickens. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 205(March 2021), 227–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2017.09.006
Andersen, K., & Bochicchio, L. (2012). The Presence of animals in contemporary art as a sign of cultural change. Forma. Revista D’Humanitats, (6), 12–23.
Andrews, M. (2009). Marcus Coates and Other Animals. Retrieved April 6, 2021, from Picture This Library website: http://www.picture-this.org.uk/library/essays1/2007/marcus-coates-and-other-animals
Baker, S. (2016). The hands of Beuys and Heidegger. In F. Ramos (Ed.), Animals: Documents of contemporary art (pp. 165–167). MIT Press.
Burt, J. (2016). The illumination of the animal kingdom: The role of light and electricity in animal representation. In F. Ramos (Ed.), Documents of Contemporary Art: Animals (pp. 87–90). https://doi.org/10.1163/156853001753644381
Cronin, J. K. (2018). Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy 1870-1914. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Dubois, S., Fenwick, N., Ryan, E. A., Baker, L., Baker, S. E., Beausoleil, N. J., … Fraser, D. (2018). Understanding Animal Welfare. Conservation Biology.
Dubois, S., Fenwick, N., Ryan, E. A., Baker, L., Baker, S. E., Beausoleil, N. J., … Fraser, D. (2017). International consensus principles for ethical wildlife control. Conservation Biology, 31(4), 753–760. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12896
Forti, S. (2016). Oh, Tongue in Documents of Contemporary Art. In F. Ramos (Ed.), Animals: Documents of contemporary art (pp. 76–77). MIT Press.
Haraway, D. J. (2016). Companion Species Manifesto; Dogs, People and Significant Otherness. In F. Ramos (Ed.), Animals: Documents of contemporary art (pp. 191–202). MIT Press.
Holmberg, T. (2019). Walking, eating, sleeping. Rhythm analysis of human/dog intimacy. Emotion, Space and Society, 31(September 2018), 26–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.03.002
Kelley, M. (2016). The Meaning is Confused Spatially, Framed. In F. Ramos (Ed.), Animals: Documents of contemporary art (pp. 170–174). MIT Press.
Makowska, I. J., & Weary, D. M. (2020). A Good Life for Laboratory Rodents? ILAR Journal, (April). https://doi.org/10.1093/ilar/ilaa001
Nawroth, C., Langbein, J., Coulon, M., Gabor, V., Oesterwind, S., Benz-Schwarzburg, J., & von Borell, E. (2019). Farm animal cognition-linking behavior, welfare and ethics. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 6(Feb), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2019.00024
Olsson, A., Würbel, H., & Mench, J. A. (2018). Behaviour. In M. Appleby, A. Olsson, & F. Galindo (Eds.), Animal Welfare (3rd ed.). CAB International.
Palmer, C., & Sandøe, P. (2018). Animal Ethics. In M. Appleby, A. Olsson, & F. Galindo (Eds.), Animal Welfare (3rd ed.). CAB International.
Rault, J. L., Hintze, S., Camerlink, I., & Yee, J. R. (2020). Positive Welfare and the Like: Distinct Views and a Proposed Framework. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7(July), 4–6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00370
Semrekar, M. (2017). CyberArts Prix Ars Electronica: K-9_topology. Retrieved April 6, 2021, from https://www.majasmrekar.org/k-9topology-cyberarts-2017-prix-ars-electronica-exhibition
Serpell, J. A. (2019). How happy is your pet? The problem of subjectivity in the assessment of companion animal welfare. Animal Welfare, 28(1), 57–66. https://doi.org/10.7120/09627286.28.1.057
Špinka, M. (2019). Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare. Animal Welfare, 28(1), 11–20. https://doi.org/10.7120/09627286.28.1.011
Tomlinson, M. (2019). Measuring ephemera: finding the “qualitative” in Qualitative Behaviour Assessment as a “whole-animal” science of animal welfare. HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology, 13(2), 60–85. https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2019-0013
Wolfe, C. (2003). In The Shadow of Wittgenstein’s Lion: Language, Ethics, and the Question of the Animal. In C. Wolfe (Ed.), Zoontologies: the question of the animal (pp. 1–58). Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press.