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Alessandro Delfanti's book is a deft and accessible introduction to the changing face of science in the new century. He brings a journalist's skill, a scientist's skepticism and an activist's passion to the question of open science today. The work offers an expert analysis of the global politics of big science and the details and pleasures, the successes and failures, of small-scale amateur and DIY biology. From the lucid writing emerges the story of a new ethic of sharing and decoding life - whether viewed under the microscope or lived out in hackerspaces and garage labs. -- Christopher M. Kelty, Associate Professor of Information Studies and Anthropology, Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA The biohackers are here. In this fascinating book, Alessandro Delfanti shows us how a new generation of citizen-scientists is breaking open the study of biology with the kinds of countercultural tools first used to hack the computer. Thanks to their work, science may never be the same again. -- Fred Turner, Associate Professor of Communication, Stanford University

Alessandro Delfanti's book is a deft and accessible introduction to the changing face of science in the new century. He brings a journalist's skill, a scientist's skepticism and an activist's passion to the question of open science today. The work offers an expert analysis of the global politics of big science and the details and pleasures, the successes and failures, of small-scale amateur and DIY biology. From the lucid writing emerges the story of a new ethic of sharing and decoding life - whether viewed under the microscope or lived out in hackerspaces and garage labs. -- Christopher M. Kelty, Associate Professor of Information Studies and Anthropology, Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA

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Alessandro Delfanti teaches Digital Media at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (Pluto, 2013).

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