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The poetics of DNA /

In The Poetics of DNA, Judith Roof examines the rise of this powerful symbol and the implications of its ascendancy for the ways we thinkabout ourselves, about one another, and about the universe. A hyperbolized notion of DNA has become a vector, Roof argues, through which older ways of thinking can...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Roof, Judith, 1951-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Collection:Posthumanities ; 2.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:In The Poetics of DNA, Judith Roof examines the rise of this powerful symbol and the implications of its ascendancy for the ways we thinkabout ourselves, about one another, and about the universe. A hyperbolized notion of DNA has become a vector, Roof argues, through which older ways of thinking can merge with the new, advancing long-discredited and insidious ideas.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index.
ISBN:9780816654284
081665428X