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dc.contributor.authorDavies, Gail
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-28T10:30:33Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-16
dc.description.abstractFluorescent zebrafish are the first genetically-modified animals globally, if unevenly, circulated outside of laboratory environments. GloFish™ were developed in Singapore. They are widely sold as popular pets in the United States, but their public sale is banned in Europe and elsewhere. On the trail of these animals, I trace a fragmentary biogeography through ethnographic encounters in the spaces of scientific research, animal exhibits, pet stores and art galleries, in Europe, the USA and Singapore. At each site, as the colour, light and intensities of neon flicker with the potential for life, and concern for animal lives move in and out of focus, I ask: what is the proper way of knowing and living with genetically-altered zebrafish? To ask the question is to open up a conversation about the changing constitution of science and space, representation and reproduction in relation to these new forms of life. To try to answer it demands attention to a baroque patterning of scientific practices, aesthetic sensibilities, ethical responsibilities and political spatialities. In a discursive arena typically characterised by narratives of linearity – whether of scientific progress or slippery slopes – I suggest the affective sensibilities, theatrical qualities and unresolved elements of the baroque offer powerful, if ambivalent, resources for reflection on the intersection between the animating aesthetics and turbulent ethics of postgenomic lifeen_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 46en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1068/a46271
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/15760
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherPionen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=a46271
dc.rights.embargoreasonPublisher's policyen_GB
dc.subjectgenetically modified animalsen_GB
dc.subjectaestheticsen_GB
dc.subjectethicsen_GB
dc.subjectregulationen_GB
dc.subjectcommodificationen_GB
dc.subjectbaroque geographiesen_GB
dc.titleSearching for GloFish™: Aesthetics, Ethics and Encounters with the Neon Baroqueen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn1472-3409
dc.descriptionCopyright © 2014 Pionen_GB
dc.description“Davies, G. 2014. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research, Vol. 46, 2014 DOI: 10.1068/a46271.”en_GB
dc.identifier.journalEnvironment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional researchen_GB


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