From the Genome Project to digital platforms. Towards a critique of the political economy of knowledge and the so-called data economy

Abstract

The objective of this article is to recover an analysis carried out in the early years of the twenty-first century on the human genome mapping project, an early case of the construction of a large international database in which two economic logics – public and private – of organization of production processes were confronted, in order to advance in the critique of the so-called data economy in which these two logics confront each other again, in the face of the expansion of companies that own large databases and digital platforms.