Today I received a digital file of my DNA Portrait by DNA11.
Color Selection: Infrared
Original picture: DNA Portrait for one person 36″ X 54″ (92cm X 138cm)
It is a visual representation of some 8 STRs sequenced of the genome of Robin Bhattacharya. Heute erhielt ich eine digitale Datei meines DNA Portrait von DNA11.
Farbwahl: Infrared
Originalbild: DNA Portrait for one person 36″ X 54″ (92cm X 138cm)
Es ist eine visuelle Darstellung von 8 STRs des Genoms von Robin Bhattacharya.
12 Short Tandem Repeats mapped on genome of Robin Bhattacharya
Process update:
These are the first results – courtesy of National Geographic – of my genome mapping.
12 STRs have been identified at certain locations (mapped) on the DNA sequence.
More results will follow and together make up the evolving SELF PORTRAIT…
12 Short Tandem Repeats gemappt auf dem Genom von Robin Bhattacharya
“Cosmopolitanism is today one of the most important ways of making sense of the contemporary world” (Delanty, 2009)
Assignment for Course: Contemporary Social Thought – London School of Economics and Political Science
Abstract:
Cosmopolitanism, as in the above quote by Gerard Delanty, is indeed the dominant way of theorizing a contemporary consciousness of global reach. What Ulrich Beck calls ‘the cosmopolitan moment of world risk society’ (Beck 2006, 2009), is used as a framework to conceptualise social and material processes across the world (Hulme 2009; Tyfield and Urry, 2009).
And although it is consistently reiterated that the term is European in origin and therefore only ever partially valid in other contexts, it is exported nevertheless, as it is the traditional Western way of looking beyond its own boundaries.
To critically explore the historicity of cosmopolitanism and the limits of its applicability today, the typical genealogy given in the chapter ‘The rise and decline of classical cosmopolitanism’ from ‘Cosmopolitan Imagination’ (Delanty 2009), can be read against Dussel’s critique of a Eurocentric development narrative in ‘Europe, Modernity and Eurocentrism’.
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