| Series | Posthumanities ; 13
Posthumanities 13. ^A759478 |
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Machine generated contents note: PL Envoi: where one learns about a deafening condition and a couple of figures of junk -- PR Presence of junk, this signature of our age -- Pantiq Philology of junk, or what's in this name, the fabric of the rhizome, our very fiber -- PRE Mapping junk, or how I wrote this book (or, maybe, how it wrote me) -- PR, Biomolecular junk, first three Chapters of the book: this uncanny detail in our genetic capital -- PRM The Junkness of culture, last three Chapters of the book, Which might not be Chapters at all: out of control -- pt. I 3' Biomolecular Junk -- ch. 1 or a Repressor Complex: How Junk Became, and Why It Might Remain, Selfish -- cI On genetic insignificance and its semiotics, or variations on the uncanny detail created by a "mini-revolution" -- OR3 Bootstraps: two opposite takes on junk DNA, selfish and snake |
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OR2 The selfish contention, a represser argument in Nature -- OR1 Even the sharpest razor cannot shave its handle (scholastics return with a vengeance) -- cro Genes and signs of meaning, or the fiction that turned us into junk -- N Why junk might remain selfish, after all -- Q Design, or everybody's good for a makeover -- ch. 2 Mostly Head: From Garbage to Junk DNA, or Life as a Software Problem -- cII Incipit junk: Ohno and the birth of a name -- A (May) a thousand loops (bloom), or from teleology to teleonomy -- B Regulation, without a program -- C Bioinformatics, biologists using computers (or the other way around) -- D Hyperreal junk, the aufhebung of code itself -- ch. 3 Head Again: Multimedium, or Life as an Interface Problem -- E The Field, back to the snake -- F Rush and Burst, a real-life encounter with the X-files -- pt. II 5' Molar Junk: Hyperviral Culture |
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Ch. 4 All Tail: Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind -- Z (which could appear to mean the end) The crime of the Millennium: it's a wonderful world, if you can afford it -- U (as in U2 my son) Postscripta: genetic capitalism and the machine of the fourth kind -- V (Bio)ethics, or what to do with your brand-new (bio)engineered freedom -- G The end of a common nature: junk as the black matter of the ontogenesis of the machine of the fourth kind -- T Individuation, without a principle (or a program): another return of scholastics, from number to Oedipus -- ch. 5 Lysis and Replication: Homo nexus, Disaffected Subject -- S A philosophical fiction; nexus, nexialism, and other aliens -- R The debt and the contract, or nexi and addicts, all unitel -- O Dis-affect, the condition of our times -- P Promethean angst: The god of junk and his paradoxical legacy, hope and all |
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Ch. 6 Tail Again: Presence of Junk -- H Stigmata, or the world Dick made -- M Kipple: how it got its look and feel, from retrofitting and the semantics of Dr. Junk himself -- L (yes, the "I" of "tail," the point of entry) Hypervirus, where it eventually becomes obvious why λ phage is the model entity for the ontogenesis of capitalism of the fourth kind -- K Junkyard terror, or a mind for murder -- I Junkspace, or how it got built -- J Future Eves, artificial menials and capitalist regenesis: a junk aesthetics -- DE-CODA -- Sib Tripping over the organism, or a tribute to Mobius: DNA is a spirit is a drug is a program -- xis Thinking junk and period pieces; a Gnostic theodicy -- attP (a vital noncoding sequence) Molecular gods, or when the religious is disqualified, remains the mantic -- int Vanishing sequences (end credits). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010003873 |
| ISBN | 9780816667505 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816667500 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780816667512 (pb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816667519 (pb : alk. paper) |
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