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3. Production of Discourse: Cybernetics, Information, Life

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© 2022 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS xi
  3. PREFACE xv
  4. ABBREVIATIONS xxi
  5. 1. The Genetic Code: Imaginaries and Practices 1
  6. 2. Spaces of Specificity: The Discourse of Molecular Biology Before the Age of Information 38
  7. 3. Production of Discourse: Cybernetics, Information, Life 73
  8. 4. Scriptural Technologies: Genetic Codes in the 19 sos 128
  9. 5. The Pasteur Connection: Cybernetique Enzymatique, Gene Informateur, and Messenger RNA 193
  10. 6. Matter of Information: Writing Genetic Codes in the r96os 235
  11. 7. In the Beginning Was the Wor(l)d? 294
  12. Conclusion 326
  13. NOTES 335
  14. WORKS CITED 381
  15. INDEX 427
Who Wrote the Book of Life?
This chapter is in the book Who Wrote the Book of Life?
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503617575-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS xi
  3. PREFACE xv
  4. ABBREVIATIONS xxi
  5. 1. The Genetic Code: Imaginaries and Practices 1
  6. 2. Spaces of Specificity: The Discourse of Molecular Biology Before the Age of Information 38
  7. 3. Production of Discourse: Cybernetics, Information, Life 73
  8. 4. Scriptural Technologies: Genetic Codes in the 19 sos 128
  9. 5. The Pasteur Connection: Cybernetique Enzymatique, Gene Informateur, and Messenger RNA 193
  10. 6. Matter of Information: Writing Genetic Codes in the r96os 235
  11. 7. In the Beginning Was the Wor(l)d? 294
  12. Conclusion 326
  13. NOTES 335
  14. WORKS CITED 381
  15. INDEX 427
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