Re-taking Care: Open Source Biotech in Light of the Need to Deproletarianize Agricultural Innovation

Lemmens, Pieter

doi:10.1007/s10806-013-9457-8

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“…The first steps towards repossession and deproletarianization, as Lemmens (Lemmens, 2014) has argued, may already be on the horizon with the introduction of the principles of open source innovation in the agricultural context. Open source innovation, which originated the world of software development, not only involves a 'repossession'of the means of production through the creation of a 'protected commons' (Kloppenburg, 2010), but also an effort to re-autonomize the knowledge production and creation of knowhow that is continuously expropriated from farmers with a view to restore this knowledge and knowhow at the psycho-collective level and so to regain the ability to participate in the transformation of their own technical milieu and its modes of production, and as such to become the creators and authors again of their own lifeworlds and their own existence-and to be able to take care and responsibility for it.…”

Section: Deproletarianization and The Pharmacological Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging Worlds: Academe and Cultural Agency in Southern Mexico

Blake¹,

Sánchez-Blake²,

Castillo³

2015

Development and the Politics of Human Rights

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According to Bernard Stiegler's theory of techno-evolution, technologies have an intrinsically pharmacological nature. This means that they are simultaneously supportive and destructive for sociotechnical practices based on them. Technological innovations always first disrupt existing sociotechnical practices, but can and should then always be appropriated by the social system to be turned into a new technical system upon which new sociotechnical practices are based. As constituted and conditioned by a technical system, agriculture is necessarily a system of care. Current deployment of transgenic technologies under capitalist conditions induce processes of proletarianization in agriculture, which has led to their widespread rejection. However, they can and should become the basis of a new system of care, but only under the condition that they are wrought from corporate control and redeployed to initiate a process of deproletarianization.

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Section: Deproletarianization and The Pharmacological Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging Worlds: Academe and Cultural Agency in Southern Mexico

Blake¹,

Sánchez-Blake²,

Castillo³

2015

Development and the Politics of Human Rights

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“…3, No. 3;2014 compensating for it, 'curing' it as it were, and as that which can 'poison' this indeterminacy, acting as a barrier to his freedom and thereby undermining his existence and world-disclosive capacity rather than supporting it.…”

Section: Stiegler's Pharmacological Conception Of Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3, No. 3;2014 the new genetic engineering technologies that enable intervention in the very processes underlying the development and evolution of life. With these technologies becoming prevalent, the care and responsibility for the living is more and more transferred from farmers to biotechnologists.…”

Section: The Biotechnology Revolution and The Corporate Control Of Agmentioning

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Section: Deproletarianization and The Pharmacological Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3, No. 3;2014 expropriated from farmers with a view to restore this knowledge and knowhow at the psycho-collective level and so to regain the ability to participate in the transformation of their own technical milieu and its modes of production, and as such to become the creators and authors again of their own lifeworlds and their own existence-and to be able to take care and responsibility for it. Open source may be the first vital step in the transformation of the new biotechnical pharmaka from corporate biotechnologies of control-from-the-outside into commonly-owned biotechnologies enabling a caring and more intelligent agriculture, endogenously 'controlled-from-within', that is to say agriculture as a genuine system of care (ibid.…”

Section: Deproletarianization and The Pharmacological Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

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According to Bernard Stiegler's theory of techno-evolution, technologies have an intrinsically pharmacological nature. They can be both supportive and destructive for sociotechnical practices based on them. Technological innovations always first disrupt existing sociotechnical practices, but can and should then always be appropriated by the social system to be turned into a new technical system upon which new sociotechnical practices are based. As constituted and conditioned by a technical system, agriculture is necessarily a system of care. Current deployment of transgenic technologies under capitalist conditions leads to processes of proletarianization in agriculture, which has led to their widespread rejection. However, they can and should become the basis of a new system of care, but only under the condition that they are wrought from corporate control and redeployed to initiate a process of deproletarianization

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