ABSTRACT In 2011, a number of controversial experiments were conducted on the H5N1 flu virus. While the experiments illuminated growing biosecurity concerns regarding gain-of-function research, the controversy also signaled an evolving biosecurity threat landscape in which biological information, understood to be a latent and potential form of biological life, and the digital infrastructures that circulate this information, have also come to be seen as dangerous. This new threat landscape is informed by the technological framing of biological life as code. What kinds of biosecurity practices are called for when biological life is understood as code and what are the implications for life itself of developing such security practices? The United States has developed a techno-security infrastructure, which this article calls ‘bioveillance,’ in response to the dangers of mobile and mutable biological information. Collapsing biosecurity and cybersecurity into the emerging field of cyberbiosecurity and mirroring the networked life forms that it intends to prevent from proliferating, bioveillance is a vital component in a burgeoning global techno-security culture. The fact that biological life is not a code or information in any strict sense means that bioveillance will face significant challenges in its implementation not least because by using digital technologies to manage the communicability of informationalised biology, bioveillance also produces and proliferates that which it aims to forestall. This means that the more U.S. institutions do to generate biological information for biosecurity purposes, the more bioinsecurities they risk producing. Bioveillance and biological danger become one in the same.

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生物监控：一种技术安全性基础设施，可避免信息生物学的危险

摘要2011年，对H5N1流感病毒进行了许多有争议的实验。尽管这些实验阐明了人们对功能获得性研究日益关注的生物安全问题，但这一争议也标志着生物安全威胁格局的演变，其中生物信息被理解为潜在的潜在生物生命形式，而数字基础设施则可以传播这些信息，也被视为危险。这种新的威胁形势是由生物生命作为代码的技术框架所告知的。当将生物生命理解为准则时，需要采取哪种生物安全措施？发展这种安全措施对生命本身有何影响？美国已经开发了一种技术安全基础设施，本文将其称为“生物监测，以应对移动和可变的生物信息的危险。将生物安全性和网络安全性纳入新兴的网络生物安全性领域并反映其打算防止其扩散的网络化生命形式，生物安全性是新兴的全球技术安全文化的重要组成部分。生物生命不是严格意义上的代码或信息，这意味着生物监测在实施过程中将面临重大挑战，不仅因为通过使用数字技术管理信息化生物学的可传播性，生物监测还产生并扩散了其目标。垄断。这意味着，更多的美国机构为生物安全目的而生成生物信息的行为越多，它们冒出的生物不安全风险就越大。