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The global genome : biotechnology, politics, and culture /
"In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In The Global Genome, Eugene Thacker asks us to consider the relationship of these three entities and argues that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The global genome
- Bioinformatic bodies and the problem of "life itself"
- A political economy of the genomic body
- Biocolonialism, genomics, and the databasing of the population
- The incorporate bodies of recombinant capital
- Bioinfowar : biologically enhancing national security
- The thickness of tissue engineering
- Regenerative medicine : we can grow it for you wholesale
- Tactical media and bioart
- Appendix A : Biotechnology fields and areas of application
- Appendix B : Techniques and technologies in biotechnology research
- Appendix C : A brief chronology of bioinformatics
- Appendix D : Biotechnology and popular culture, or, Mutants, replicants, and zombies.