Junkware / Thierry Bardini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bardini, Thierry.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 13.

Posthumanities ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DNA.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essential junkiness of our culture and biology.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CODA: Lambdas All Over the Place; INTRODUCTION, or a Set of Promoters: Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight, and Vik Muniz Piling Them Up; P[sub(L)]: Envoi; P[sub(R)]: Presence of junk; P[sub(antiq)]: Philology of junk; P[sub(RE)]: Mapping junk; P[sub(R)]: Biomolecular junk; P[sub(RM)]: The Junkness of culture; Part I: 3' Biomolecular Junk; CHAPTER 1, or a Repressor Complex: How Junk Became, and Why It Might Remain, Selfish; cI: On genetic insignificance and its semiotics; OR3: Bootstraps: two opposite takes on junk; OR2: The selfish contention

OR1: Even the sharpest razor cannot shave its handlecro: Genes and signs of meaning; N: Why junk might remain selfish; Q: Design; CHAPTER 2, Mostly Head: From Garbage to Junk DNA, or Life as a Software Problem; cII: Incipit junk; A: (May) a thousand loops; B: Regulation; C: Bioinformatics; D: Hyperreal junk; CHAPTER 3, Head Again: Multimedium, or Life as an Interface Problem; E: The Field; F: Rush and Burst; Part II: 5' Molar Junk: Hyperviral Culture; CHAPTER 4, All Tail: Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind; Z: (which could appear to mean the end) The crime of the Millennium

U: (as in U2 my son) PostscriptaV: (Bio)ethics; G: The end of a common nature; T: Individuation, without a principle (or a program); CHAPTER 5, Lysis and Replication: Homo nexus, Disaffected Subject; S: A philosophical fiction; R: The debt and the contract; O: Dis-affect; P: Promethean angst; CHAPTER 6, Tail Again: Presence of Junk; H: Stigmata; M: Kipple; L: (yes, the ""l"" of ""tail,"" the point of entry) Hypervirus; K: Junkyard terror; I: Junkspace; J: Future Eves artificial menials and capitalist regenesis; DE-CODA; Sib: Tripping over the organism; xis: Thinking junk and period pieces

attP: (a vital noncoding sequence) Molecular godsint: Vanishing sequences (end credits); GLOSSARY; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; K; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4658-2

0-8166-7488-4

OCLC:

705538368