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    Living Machines: Metaphors We Live By.Nora S. Vaage - 2020 - NanoEthics 14 (1):57-70.
    Within biology and in society, living creatures have long been described using metaphors of machinery and computation: ‘bioengineering’, ‘genes as code’ or ‘biological chassis’. This paper builds on Lakoff and Johnson’s argument that such language mechanisms shape how we understand the world. I argue that the living machines metaphor builds upon a certain perception of life entailing an idea of radical human control of the living world, looking back at the historical preconditions for this metaphor. I discuss how design is (...)
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    Inquiring into Human Enhancement: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives.Nora S. Vaage - 2016 - NanoEthics 10 (2):167-171.
    Book review of the book Inquiring into Human Enhancement: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives (2015), edited by Simone Bateman, Sylvie Allouche, Jean Gayon, Michela Marzano and Jérôme Goffette. Closing the summary of the book's chapters, the reviewer asks: when imagining HE for the future, especially in utopian directions, might we not seek to increase human wisdom, for instance, rather than just human intellect? Why are human enhancement visions so often limited by egotistical, if well-intended, desires that might go horribly wrong, as (...)
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    Images of knowledge: the epistemic lives of pictures and visualisations.Nora Sørensen Vaage, Rasmus T. Slaattelid, Trine Krigsvoll Haagensen & Samantha L. Smith (eds.) - 2016 - New York: PL, Academic Research.
    This book critically reflects upon how images are mobilised within certain knowledge traditions, beyond the established categories of art, scientific visualisations and religious images. Thinking through and with images across ages, the authors seek to expand our understanding of the relationship between the visual and the epistemic.
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  4. Images of Knowledge. The Epistemic Lives of Pictures and Visualisations.Nora S. Vaage, Rasmus T. Slaattelid, Trine Krigsvoll Haagensen & Samantha L. Smith (eds.) - 2016 - Peter Lang.
    The authors consider the relationship between knowledge and image, though multi-faceted, to be one of reciprocal dependence. But how do images carry and convey knowledge? The ambiguities of images means that interpretations do not necessarily follow the intention of the image producers. Through an array of different cases, the chapters critically reflect upon how images are mobilised and used in different knowledge practices, within certain knowledge traditions, in different historical periods. They question what we take for granted, what seems evident, (...)
     
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    What Ethics for Bioart?Nora S. Vaage - 2016 - NanoEthics 10 (1):87-104.
    Living artworks created with biotechnology raise a range of ethical questions, some of which are unprecedented, others well known from other contexts. These questions are often discussed within the framework of bioethics, the ethics of the life sciences. The basic concern of institutionalised bioethics is to develop and implement ethical guidelines for ethically responsible handling of living material in technological and scientific contexts. Notably, discussions of ethical issues in bioart do not refer to existing discourses on art and morality from (...)
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    Sacred science?Simen Andersen Øyen, Nora Sørensen Vaage & Tone Lund-Olsen - 2012 - In Simen Andersen Øyen & Tone Lund-Olsen (eds.), Sacred Science?: On Science and its Interrelations with Religious Worldviews. Wageningen Academic Publishers.
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    Inquiring into Human Enhancement: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives: Simone Bateman, Sylvie Allouche, Jean Gayon, Michela Marzano and Jérôme Goffette (eds.) 2015 (Palgrave Macmillan UK) ISBN: 978-1-137-53006-6. 278 pp. [REVIEW]Nora S. Vaage - 2016 - NanoEthics 10 (2):167-171.
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