Bioinformation Worlds and Futures

EJ Gonzalez-Polledo teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. They are the author of Transitioning: Matter, Gender, Thought (Rowman and Littlefield international), and are currently developing research on global open biology movements and global histories of bioinformation.Silvia Posocco is an anthropologist based at Birkbeck, University of London. Posocco is the author of Secrecy and Insurgency: Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala (2014). Current projects include research on the archives of transnational adoption in the aftermath of genocide as well as new collaborative work on global histories of bioinformation.

• 1 Bioinformation Worlds and Futures: An Introduction-EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco; 2 All the Data Creatures -Tahani Nadim;3 Capturing Genomes: The Friction and Flow of Bioinformation at the Smithsonian-Adrian Van Allen; 4 The Kinship of Bioinformation: Relations in an Evolving Archive-Resto Cruz, Penny Tinkler, and Laura Fenton; 5 Bioinformation In Formation: Inventing Medical Devices in Contemporary India-Anisha Chadha; 6 Top_to_toe.ods: Bioinformation and the Politics of Rape Response-Sylvia McKelvie; 7 American Bioinformation and U.S. Race Politics: The Values of Diverse Genetic Data; Anna Jabloner; 8 Global E-Waste Epidemiology and Emerging Politics of Bioinformatic Extraction-Peter Little; 9 Seeing Like an Airport: towards Interoperability in Contemporary Security; Mark Maguire and Eileen Murphy; 10 Surrender: (Bio)information in the Era of the Pandemic in South Korea-Kiheung Kim and Jongmi Kim; Afterword-Noah Tamarkin

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