Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code

By L. E. Kay. 2000

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Neoliberalism on the molecular scale. Economic and genetic reductionism in biotechnology battles (2003, background): “…paradigm, far from being born from genomic biotechnology, has long supported the project of techno-science in support of capital accumulation in agriculture, in support of social control, and, from time to time, of explicit agendas for eugenics (Kay, 1993, 2000; Kloppenberg, 1988).”
Geography’s underworld: The military–industrial complex, mathematical modelling and the quantitative revolution (2008, methodology): “Thomas Kuhn’s work in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was catalytic. Significantly, the book itself, as Fuller (2000) argues, emerged exactly from a Cold War context.”
The automatic production of space (2002, background): “Thus, at the most general level, software is often considered to be part of a more general structure of writing, a vast Derridean intertext that has gradually become a system without edges and that includes all manner of ‘coded’ writings rooted in a base cybernetic metaphor (Johnson 1993; Hayles 199”
Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (2013, background): “The informational metaphors that surround genetics have shaped scientists’ approach to genetics and have had a role in the rise of intellectual property rights in this field (Kay 2000; Keller 2000; Waldby 2000).”