Biocapital

"Reading Kaushik Sunder Rajan's "Biocapital "fills me with the same intellectual and personal excitement I felt reading Marx's "Capital "and Foucault's "History of Sexuality "for the first time. "Biocapital "gives a passionate, thoroughly argued road map to dense and consequential worlds that I already inhabit, but have not known how to describe with the vividness and acumen required. Sunder Rajan integrates and explores in depth what many others only promise; i.e., the coproductions of meanings, values, and bodies in emerging regimes of biocapital. In the course of shaping ethnographic and theoretical inquiry into what he calls 'lively capital, ' Sunder Rajan gives his readers lively value in every sense."--Donna Haraway, author of "Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan(c)_Meets_OncoMouse(TM)"