From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2007 - 00:23:37 EST
As Sarah Franklin has argued, in vol 3 of Capital Marx discusses the capitalization of cattle and sheep breeding in his account of the process in which capital became an independent and dominant force in agriculture; Franklin suggests that, in many ways, the cloning of Dolly the sheep--made possible not only through investment of venture capital and with the aim of creating transgenic bioreactor sheep that could create marketable enzymes for treating human diseases in their milk--binds the oldest definitions of capital as stock to the newest forms that this takes in contemporary biocapital. From Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself, Princeton Univ Press, 2006, p. 265-66
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