By Richard Doyle
What do biologists examine once they learn "life" at the present time? Drawing on instruments from rhetoric and poststructuralist thought, the writer argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules akin to DNA instead of organisms, used to be enabled by means of an important rhetorical "softwares." Metaphors reminiscent of the genetic "code" made attainable a change of the very inspiration of existence, a change that frequently casts organisms as details systems.With cautious readings of key texts from the heritage of molecular biology—such as these of Erwin Schr?dinger, George Gamow, Jacques Monod, and Fran?ois Jacob—the writer maps out the advanced relatives among the practices of rhetoric and the technoscientific triumphs they observed, triumphs that reinforced a "postvital" biology that more and more elides and questions the boundary among organisms and machines.There were many well known books, and some educational ones, at the Human Genome tasks. On past dwelling is a family tree of those projects, a map of ways we've come to equate people with "information." Melding modern conception with medical discourse, it's absolute to impress dialogue (and controversy) within the fields of cultural experiences, conception, and technological know-how with its penetrating inquiries into the family among rhetoric and technoscience.
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Fertilized egg" and because that cell itself is "essentially determined by the structure of only . . the nu cleus," Schrodinger turns his attention to genotype. "9 No longer, then, is "pattern" to be seen in the exhibited characteristics and functioning of an individual organism. Rather, it is now something that is "contained" in the coded and scripted chromosome. No longer a reflection or even a production of genotype, "pattern" is now literally inside genotype. By "troping" the trope of pattern, Schrodinger literally and grotesquely turns "pattern" and the "organism" inside out.
Elegans and its instantia tion. Put another way, the aesthetic of a "complete understanding" is an aesthetic that finds nothing sublime. Jean Baudrillard writes of his en counter with such an aesthetic, that of the hyperreal: I recall a particular scene of a hyperrealist . exhibition at Beauborg, of flesh colored, absolutely realistic and naked sculptures, or rather mannequins in un equivocal, banal positions. The instantaneousness of a body which is meaningless and which has nothing to say but simply exists, has a kind of stupefying effect upon its spectators.
These exchanges need not obey the disciplinary strictures that traverse their discourses; indeed, they need not be "possi ble" in any strict sense. "30 Schrodinger's rhetorical and scientific exchange of the trope of phenotype for the trope of genotype was not merely Freud's "verbal carelessness"; it was a rhetorical plausibility condition of molecu- Mr. Schrodinger Inside Himself 35 lar biology. It made it thinkable and practical for Watson and Crick, among others, to equate life with the structure ofDNA and, eventually, to seek to "decode" it.