Junkware [[electronic resource] /] / Thierry Bardini

• Autore: Bardini Thierry
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: DNA; Philosophical anthropology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: The essential junkiness of our culture and biology.
• Titolo autorizzato: Junkware
• ISBN: 1-4529-4658-2; 0-8166-7488-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825531303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Posthumanities ; ; 13.