Thinking Bioethics

Abstract

This commentary reflects a broadly deconstructive reading of the relation of law, biotechnology and bioethics in shifting global, biotechnological contexts. I suggest that a reorganization of techno-scientific capital has altered forms of representation as well as mechanisms of expropriation and exploitation. I consider the bioethical implications of biotechnological inventions of living form that have redefined classical categories of thought, the sites of political representation and identity as well as the language of modern law, ethics and politics. I proceed to comment on the globalization of intellectual property rights as an expression of the hegemony of modern law.