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Subjects of Speculation: Emergent Life Sciences and Market Logics in the United States and India
Author(s) -
RAJAN KAUSHIK SUNDER
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.2005.107.1.019
Subject(s) - speculation , capitalism , subjectivity , consolidation (business) , sovereignty , context (archaeology) , personalized medicine , sociology , capital (architecture) , social science , political science , epistemology , economics , history , law , philosophy , biology , accounting , finance , bioinformatics , archaeology , politics
This article traces systems of exchange concerning the life sciences and capital and how they configure subjectivity in the United States and India. This is done through case studies concerning the emergence of personalized medicine in the two locales. In the U.S. case, I argue for the configuration of the subjects of personalized medicine as sovereign consumers; in the Indian case, I argue for their configuration as experimental subjects. I situate these arguments in the context of epistemologies of genomics and the consolidation of systems of speculative capitalism.