BIOMEDIA, by Eugene Thacker [publication announcement]

March 30, 2004

Type: discussion

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BIOMEDIA

Eugene Thacker

University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 2003
Electronic Mediations Series, volume 11

The merging of computer science and molecular biology, genetic codes and computer codes.

As biotechnology defines the new millennium, genetic codes and computer codes increasingly merge - life understood as data, flesh rendered programmable. Where this trend will take us, and what it might mean, is what concerns Eugene Thacker in this timely book, a penetrating look into the intersection of molecular biology and computer science in our day and its likely ramifications for the future.

For more information, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/T/thacker_biomedia.html

For more information about the Electronic Mediations Series, visit its webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/electronic.html

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