Abstract Disquiet relating to the potential for knowing one's ‘fate’ emerged strongly in sixteen focus groups relating to genetic testing held in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This paper draws on the concept of ‘life itself’, rephrased here as ‘capitalised genomics’, to understand this reaction. A tension relating to the discourse of geneticisation, in which ‘the gene’ is held to carry essential identity, links to ancestors and people, and yet also to create fixed and innate characteristics, is described. Insofar as genes are also understood to be coded and manipulable information, participants were concerned that the instrumentalisation inherent to Western technoscience may become applicable to human nature. This paper argues that participants' focus on issues associated with potentially ‘knowing one's fate’ thus speaks to an understanding of the underlying dynamics of human genomics within a capitalistic context.

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“就像编辑我们自己的一部分”：遗传和人类命运

摘要 在新西兰 Aotearoa 举行的与基因检测相关的 16 个焦点小组中，人们对了解自己“命运”的可能性感到不安。本文利用“生命本身”的概念，在此改写为“大写基因组学”，来理解这种反应。描述了与遗传化话语相关的张力，其中“基因”被认为具有基本身份、与祖先和人类的联系，同时还创造了固定和先天的特征。就基因也被理解为编码和可操纵信息而言，参与者担心西方技术科学固有的工具化可能适用于人性。本文认为，参与者关注与潜在的“知道一个人”相关的问题