Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Only we could have done it. The Code (DNA and its analogs, etc.) that we perhaps only narrate, never forgetting all of the fictions that narration portends, today consciously edits the text that evolution has edited unconsciously for eons. Thacker considers how humans -- perhaps little more than interactive Code, manipulate the Code -- with the technology of the Code. No other faction of Code has yet to make such heady ‘gains.’ Where posthumanity was always a literary endeavor, a literary bypass, out of instrumental science and into fictive states, it now is a technical endeavor, encompassing a systemic rationale, and a medium wherein to flourish. That the majority of cultures have yet to adequately engage this currency is only incidental to the Capital required to execute its logic, and globalization will be sure to include the mounting technological implementation of the Code.
Repository Citation
Ruiz, Nicholas. "On Thacker's Biomedia (2004)." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 4, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1–4. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol4/iss4/9
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