Sophia Roosth's research focuses on the anthropology of the experimental life sciences, specifically the emerging field of synthetic biology. In studying the construction of biotic systems de novo, Sophia is most interested in examining how biological materials are designed, fabricated, and standardized, how engineering idioms are imported into biological practice, and how the free software movement affects bioengineering research. Broadly, she is concerned with the ontology of biological materials, the intersection of biology and design, and the discursive traffic between organisms and machines. She is also currently writing about the use of acoustic technologies to listen to cells.
anthropology of the biosciences; biology and aesthetics; organisms as/and machines (and vice versa)
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