Junkware
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 …
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- Full title :Junkware / Thierry Bardini.
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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
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
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- Description:1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780816674886, 0816674884, 9781452946580, 1452946582
- oclc:ocn707091255
- LC Classification:BD450
- Dewey Decimal:128
Table of 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; Part I: 3' Biomolecular Junk; Part II: 5' Molar Junk: Hyperviral Culture; DE-CODA; GLOSSARY; NOTES; INDEX.
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