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MIT Press Ltd, United States, 2006. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 226 x 174 mm. Language: English . BrandNew Book. In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequencein a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In The Global Genome, EugeneThacker asks us to consider the relationship of these three entities and argues that -- by their existence and theirinterrelationships -- they are fundamentally redefining the notion of biological life itself. Biological science andthe biotech industry are increasingly organized at a global level, in large part because of the use of the Internetin exchanging biological data. International genome sequencing e orts, genomic databases, the developmentof World Intellectual Property policies, and the borderless business of biotech are all evidence of the globalintersections of biology and informatics -- of genetic codes and computer codes. Thacker points out theinternal tension in the very concept of biotechnology: the products are more tech than bio, but the technologyitself is fully biological, composed of the biomaterial labor of genes, proteins, cells, and tissues. Is biotechnologya technology at all, he asks, or is it a notion of life itself that is inseparable from its use in the biotech industry?The three sections of the book cover the three primary activities of biotechnology today: the encoding ofbiological materials into digital form -- as in bioinformatics and genomics; its recoding in various ways --including the biocolonialism of mapping genetically isolated ethnic populations and the newly pervasiveconcern over biological security ; and its decoding back into biological materiality -- as in tissue engineeringand regenerative medicine. Thacker moves easily from science to philosophy to political economics, enliveninghis account with ideas from such thinkers as...

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