Pete Hindle's Repository of Stuff

These are some brief notes on the lectures,
Ingebourg Reichie is an art historian with main focus of her present research is into image production in art and science. She talked about how scientists were creating artificial systems to study models of disease. That science was a different form of selection outside of Darwinism. She suggested that much of the natural world was being replaced by technology.
So, to explain a bit more of the background. In order to study disease in humans, scientists often study it in closely related organisms, such as mice. With current technology these organisms are increasingly bioengineered to replicate the disease state. Thus there are mice that are engineered get cancer, or alzheimers, animals that would not survive outside the lab. These she terms biofacts. Manufactured organisms.
More to come......