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THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 61-81Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0263276414551032
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environment; late capitalism; life; machine; nature-cultures; new economy; posthumanism; post-industrial society
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Advocates of biomimicry encourage a new industrial paradigm that ostensibly leaves behind the crude violence of Francis Bacon, the domination of nature-as-machine, and a history of toxic production processes that have given rise to a present and coming climate crisis. As part of a broader trend towards the conceptualization and development of a bioeconomy', we argue here that biomimicry produces nature' in new ways. At face value, these new approaches to valuing nature may seem less violent and exploitative. Yet, new natures can and are tortured in new ways. We argue that biomimicry produces nature' through well-worn logics of resource enclosure and privatization, focusing upon two fundamental shifts in how nonhuman life is figured and put to work: (1) the production of nature as intellectual property (as opposed to raw materials); (2) the production of nature as an active subject (as opposed to a passive receptacle or vehicle).
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