Radio, the Genome, and Greg Bear's Biological Fiction.
This essay explores the human genome as a form of media via Greg Bear's biological fiction. The genome is a network and a database; it is a product of biopower in the age of digital computers. I argue it is also a rich fantasy object, a conceptual and theoretical staging ground for thinking about th...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 104 - 122 |
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University of California Press
Mar2017
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