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Junkware (Hardcover, New)
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Junkware (Hardcover, New)
Series: Posthumanities
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Are we made of junk? Thierry Bardini believes we are. Examining an
array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication
networks, he explores the idea that most of culture and nature,
including humans, is composed primarily of useless, but always
potentially recyclable, material otherwise known as "junk." Bardini
unravels the presence of junk at the interface between science
fictions and fictions of science, showing that molecular biology
and popular culture since the early 1960s belong to the same
culture-cyberculture-which is essentially a culture of junk. He
draws on a wide variety of sources, including the writings of
Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs, interviews with scientists
as well as "crackpots," and work in genetics, cybernetics, and
physics to support his contention that junk DNA represents a blind
spot in our understanding of life. At the same time, Junkware
examines the cultural history that led to the encoding and decoding
of life itself and the contemporary turning of these codes into a
commodity. But he also contends that, beyond good and evil, the
essential "junkiness" of this new subject is both the symptom and
the potential cure.
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