Junkware

Bardini, Thierry

doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816667505.001.0001

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“…Even though the informal nature of genetics has lead many scientists to compare it with language, for example with algorithmic languages (or cybernetic programs) in the work of geneticists François Jacob, Jacques Monod and André Lwoff (Bardini 2011 : 72), or in that of linguists following the pioneer work of Roman Jakobson (1973), like Bel Enguix and Jiménez-Lopez (2012), this comparison cannot be done lightly. Charbel, Queiroz and Emmeche (2009) or Bardini (2011) remind us of the fallacies involved a strict analogy between genetic and linguistic signs. Still, the genome-as-language metaphor is still in use, and might hold some heuristic value.…”

Section: Approaching the Wild Boys: Text And Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

William S. Burroughs and The Wild Boys Against the Language Virus: A Biosemiotic Guerilla

Patoine¹

2021

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This article proposes a biosemiotic reading of William S. Burroughs' The Wild Boys -A Book of the Dead (1971), showing how literature, by cutting up narrative structures and syntactical units, can fight the language virus' configuring of human vitality, just like bacteria uses CRISPR-Cas9 to cut-up the DNA code-chains of threatening viruses. We will see that, supported by the shared biosemiotic nature of literary texts and biological forms, this parallel extends beyond the metaphorical to reinsert literature within the realm of living processes.Cet article propose une lecture biosémiotique du roman de William S. Burroughs The Wild Boys -A Book of the Dead (1971), montrant comment la littérature, en coupant structures narratives et unités syntaxiques, peut combattre le "virus du langage" et les contraintes qu'il impose à la vitalité humaine. Cette tactique rappelle la manière dont certaines bactéries utilisent le CRISPR-Cas9 pour couper l'ADN de virus attaquants. Nous verrons que, en raison du caractère biosémiotique que partagent les textes littéraires et les formes biologiques, ce parallèle nous permet de réinsérer la littérature au sein des dynamiques du vivant.Certainly one of the most brilliant writers of the postwar period, William S. Burroughs' influence on the cultural avant-gardes of the late 20 th and early 21 st century is pervasive. He has been called the godfather of the Beat poets (Kerouac and Ginsberg were friends), an inspiration for the punk rock movement of the 1970s onward (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry and Kurt Cobain all had their picture taken with him), and the first of the cyberpunk writers (such as William Gibson, Pat Cadigan, and Bruce Sterling). His influence is often attributed to the power of his subversive imagery and to his use of the cut-up technique, a formal innovation that gives its characteristic style both to Naked Lunch, first published in 1959 and the object of two censorship trials, and to the "Nova Trilogy" formed by the Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket that Exploded (1962), and Nova Express (1964).Following on their heels is The Wild Boys -A Book of the Dead (1971), which uses "cut-uplike" techniques in a slightly toned down manner.Subversion and experimentation are crucial to Burroughs' oeuvre. But they cannot be separated from its intense connection with the biological, with the experiences of aliveness it gives its readers. Of course, all literature is connected with the biological, as writing and reading are practiced by living entities (individual writers and readers, and their communities and cultures, co-evolving with entities and materials such as paper/trees and ink). Moreover, all literature expresses or creates fragments of vital experience; meaning-making and interpretation are embodied through the reader's neural simulation of sensory and emotional images, with its accompanying postural, muscular and visceral correlates (see work on embodied cognition such as Gallese and Lakoff 2005; or Boulenger et al 2009). These biological and physiologica...

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Section: Approaching the Wild Boys: Text And Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

William S. Burroughs and The Wild Boys Against the Language Virus: A Biosemiotic Guerilla

Patoine¹

2021

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“…All of these interactions, particularly financial ones, were also greatly facilitated by the increasingly widespread use of computers and the development of the Internet in the mid-1990s. And yet, infrastructures and the mass of objects that support the Internet and mobile telephony contribute substantially to greenhouse gas emissions, soil destruction, pollution and waste (Bardini 2011;Gabrys 2013;Flippo et al 2013;Latouche 2015;Minter 2013;Cubitt 2017), not to mention the destruction of jobs and the dangers linked to the capture and use of data by the GAFAM. Far from dematerialising, the use of digital technologies has heightened the material dimension of modernity.…”

Section: It Is Too Late For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Popular Music and the Anthropocene

Ribac¹,

Harkins²

2020

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“…Then, the scientific world gradually discovered that 98% of junk DNA (i.e. the "substance") had a function, particularly in the case of cancer cells [18,19]... We could then say that of the entire DNA housed in genomic DNA, the substance corresponds to 98% (junk-DNA), while the form consists of 2% housed in genes. What we find here forces us to revisit the fundamental question beyond redundancy of information in the DNA in general and in the human genome specifically.…”

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The “3 Genomic Numbers” Discovery: How Our Genome Single-Stranded DNA Sequence Is “Self-Designed” as a Numerical Whole

Perez¹

2013

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This article proves the existence of a hyper-precise global numerical meta-architecture unifying, structuring, binding and controlling the billion triplet codons constituting the sequence of single-stranded DNA of the entire human genome. Beyond the evolution and erratic mutations like transposons within the genome, it's as if the memory of a fossil genome with multiple symmetries persists. This recalls the "intermingling" of information characterizing the fractal universe of chaos theory. The result leads to a balanced and perfect tuning between the masses of the two strands of the huge DNA molecule that constitute our genome. We show here how codon populations forming the single-stranded DNA sequences can constitute a critical approach to the understanding of junk DNA function. Then, we suggest revisiting certain methods published in our 2009 book "Codex Biogenesis". In fact, we demonstrate here how powerful a analytical filter the universal genetic code table is to characterize single-stranded DNA sequences constituting chromosomes and genomes. We can then show that any genomic DNA sequence is featured by three numbers, which characterize it and its 64 codon populations with correlations greater than 99%. The number "1" is common to all sequences, expressing the second law of Chargaff. The other 2 numbers are related to each specific DNA sequence case characterizing life species. For example, the entire human genome is characterized by three remarkable numbers 1, 2, and Phi = 1.618 the golden ratio. Associated with each of these three numbers, we can match three axes of symmetry, then "imagine" a kind of hyperspace formed by these codon populations. Then we revisit the value (3-Phi)/2 which is probably universal and common to both the scale of quarks and atomic levels, balancing and tuning the whole human genome codon population. Finally, we demonstrate a new kind of duality between "form and substance" overlapping the whole human genome: we will show that-simultaneously with the duality between genes and junk DNA-there is a second layer of embedded hidden structure overlapping all the DNA of the whole human genome, dividing it into a second type of duality information/redundancy involving golden ratio proportions.

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Junkware

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William S. Burroughs and The Wild Boys Against the Language Virus: A Biosemiotic Guerilla

William S. Burroughs and The Wild Boys Against the Language Virus: A Biosemiotic Guerilla

Popular Music and the Anthropocene

The “3 Genomic Numbers” Discovery: How Our Genome Single-Stranded DNA Sequence Is “Self-Designed” as a Numerical Whole

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