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The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture. By Eugene Thacker. MIT Press.

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The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture. By Eugene Thacker. MIT Press.

In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In The Global Genome, Eugene Thacker asks us to consider the relationship of these three entities and argues that — by their existence and their interrelationships — they are fundamentally redefining the notion of biological “life itself.”

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