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Parisi - What Can Biotechnology Do - (Theory Culture Society) (2009)
"Parisi - What Can Biotechnology Do - (Theory Culture Society) (2009)" treats life, information, or swarming propagation as contagious process rather than bounded organism or stable message.
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Core idea
The basic claim is that control no longer operates only by prohibition or discipline. Viral spread, bacterial sex, and contagion provide a better model for how signals, bodies, and systems mutate across boundaries.
These texts work by tying information transfer to life processes that do not respect stable species, subjects, or enclosures. Virotechnics makes propagation into the central operation.
That matters because the section is trying to surface a picture of thought as contagious pattern rather than settled doctrine. Control becomes inseparable from what leaks, spreads, and mutates.
How to read this text
Read for the language of transmission and infection first. That vocabulary is the shortest route into the page's main claim.
Notice where life and information stop looking separate. That crossover is where the section's most distinctive thinking begins.
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Definition · paragraph 9
In 2004 she published Abstract Sex: Philos- ophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press). Currently she is writing a monograph on soft architecture and the meta- physics of computational culture. [email: L.Parisi@gold.ac.uk] Parisi – What Can Biotechnology Do?
Definition · paragraph 1
Process-events vs the Bio-logic of Life Luciana Parisi The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture by Eugene Thacker Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Abstract This essay is an occasion to discuss the critical trajectories of a now common field of enquiry concerned with the impact of biomediatic technologies on politics and culture.
Definition · paragraph 9
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. Luciana Parisi is the Convener of the Interactive Media MA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2004 she published Abstract Sex: Philos- ophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press).
Definition · paragraph 2
biotech industries emerged, concepts such as cybernetic organism, thermo- dynamic system and autopoietic structure were already implicated in the everyday production of a new kind of profit directly investing the biological body. However, as these concepts spread through the popular culture of cyberpunk, the image of a technocapitalist future operating by stealth became increasingly pervasive.
Stakes · paragraph 1
What Can Biotechnology Do? Process-events vs the Bio-logic of Life Luciana Parisi The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture by Eugene Thacker Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
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Control, Virotechnics, and Swarm Systems Primary section
Control processes, viral language, swarms, and abstract dynamics as a media-theoretical cluster.