Junkware

Volume 13

By: Thierry Bardini

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Paperback | 10 January 2011

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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 a wide variety of sources, including the writings of Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs, interviews with scientists as well as "crackpots," and work in genetics, cybernetics, and physics to support his contention that junk DNA represents a blind spot in our understanding of life.
At the same time, Junkware examines the cultural history that led to the encoding and decoding of life itself and the contemporary turning of these codes into a commodity. But he also contends that, beyond good and evil, the essential "junkiness" of this new subject is both the symptom and the potential cure.

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"Awakening us to the awe-ful splendor of an informatic planet crawling with self replicating 'junkware, ' Professor Bardini joins a global cadre of interdisciplinary ecologists engaging with the digital evolution and development of living systems: Techno-Evo-Devo. Bardini's inquiry owes as much to Woody Allen as it does to Gilbert Simondon, asking: Are we made of junk? In the tradition of Darwin's contemplation of an 'entangled bank' of interconnected life, Junkware beholds a planet transduced by the self replicating infoquake and a Dionysian festival of junk. Long may it replicate." --Richard Doyle, Penn State University

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Acknowledgments	p. xiii
CODA: Lambdas All Over the Place	p. 1
Introduction, or a Set of Promoters: Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight, and Vik Muniz Piling Them Up	p. 7
3' Biomolecular Junk
or a Repressor Complex: How Junk Became, and Why It Might Remain, Selfish	p. 29
Mostly Head: From Garbage to Junk DNA, or Life as a Software Problem	p. 61
Head Again: Multimedium, or Life as an Interface Problem	p. 97
5' Molar Junk: Hyperviral Culture
All Tail: Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind	p. 125
Lysis and Replication: Homo nexus, Disaffected Subject	p. 145
Tail Again: Presence of Junk	p. 169
DE-CODA	p. 207
Glossary	p. 215
Notes	p. 229
Index	p. 273
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