Biohacking: Law, food systems, and the future of optimization

Bringing together perspectives from the political economy of food systems, the legal frameworks governing emerging biomedical technologies, and bioethics in the humanities and fiction, this panel conversation, recorded at BESI on March 30, illuminated how these interlocking systems shape the techno-political possibilities for bodies.

Biohacking — the technological and biomedical optimization of human bodies — offers a critical lens for examining who gets to be “improved,” at what cost, and on whose terms. The infrastructures that enable or constrain such optimization are never neutral. They shape which bodies are constructed as deficient, which interventions count as legitimate “health,” and whose enhancement is socially, economically, and politically valued.

Watch as our experts explore the intersection of law, food systems, and humanities in biohacking.