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The Poetics of DNA (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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The Poetics of DNA (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Series: Posthumanities
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How has DNA come to be seen as a cosmic truth, representative of
all life, potential for all cures, repository for all identity, and
end to all stories? In "The Poetics of DNA," Judith Roof examines
the rise of this powerful symbol and the implications of its
ascendancy for the ways we think-about ourselves, about one
another, and about the universe.
Descriptions of DNA, Roof argues, have distorted ideas and
transformed nucleic acid into the answer to all questions of life.
This hyperbolized notion of DNA, inevitably confused or conflated
with the "gene," has become a vector through which older ways of
thinking can merge with the new, advancing long-discredited and
insidious ideas about such things as eugenics and racial selection
and influencing contemporary debates, particularly the popular
press obsession with the "gay gene." Through metaphors of DNA, she
contends, racist and homophobic ideology is masked as progressive
science.
Grappling with twentieth-century intellectual movements as well as
contemporary societal anxieties, "The Poetics of DNA" reveals how
descriptions of DNA and genes typify a larger set of
epistemological battles that play out not only through the
assumptions associated with DNA but also through less evident
methods of magical thinking, reductionism, and pseudoscience.
For the first time, Roof exposes the ideology and cultural
consequences of DNA and gene metaphors to uncover how, ultimately,
they are paradigms used to recreate prejudices.
Judith Roof is professor of English and film studies at Michigan
State University. She is the author of several books, including
"All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels."
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