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Description for Junkware
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; TJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
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."
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Posthumanities
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816667512
SKU
V9780816667512
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99-15
About Thierry Bardini
Thierry Bardini is professor of communication at the University of Montreal.
Reviews for Junkware
"This book is thrilling. No other book takes the problem of junk (and especially junk DNA) so seriously; no other book takes the question of what molecular biology has done to us so thoroughly. Thierry Bardini’s answer is that we have literally become junk-Homo Nexus. In the age of genetic capitalism, we’ve moved beyond Deleuze’s societies of control and into...
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