Junkware: Volume 13

by Thierry Bardini

Are we made of junk? Thierry Bardini believes we are. Examining an array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, he explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed primarily of useless, but always potentially recyclable, material otherwise known as "junk."
Bardini unravels the presence of junk at the interface between science fictions and fictions of science, showing that molecular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00A2PXXSY
• ISBN13: 9780816667512
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"