Concept Work

February 13, 2007

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by stavrianakis

An object is not a thing. I am still stuck on this. Through the Human Practices work on synthetic biology I have been exposed to the work of the Voigt lab who have the ambition to develop a tumor destroying bacterium (see especially task 3)

Is the yet-to-be bacterium – a la Haraway – a material-semiotic object, much more semiotic than material at this stage? Is it in fact a thing, or rather not even a thing?
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