What is Biomeadia? REALLY WHAT IS IT!

From the Article Biomedia written by Eugene Thacker of Georgia Institute of Technology, “This passage between codes is the foundation that informs much of molecular genetics, though it has been transformed significantly between the postwar era and the new millennium. The establishing of such a passage is based on the assumption that some essence or essential data pervades bimolecular bodies such as DNA or proteins that enables them to be compositionally and functionally transported from one medium to another, or that, at the very least, enables them to be technically enframed as units that

operate according to an informatic logic.(20)” 

Now someone please explain to me what this man is trying to say, in plain English preferably.
Now Matt, no offence but you assigned this reading to a mass of Art students. I do not know about the other students but for myself, this reading was the worst thing to try and comprehend. I mean seriously, “biotech fields are embodied practices, a unique type of embodiment that is cellular, enzymatic, and genetic?” If you can tell me what that means I would be more then happy to try and understand exactly what in the world he is jabbering on about for 30 pages. I see how he is trying to connect the sci-fi with today’s technologies, but alas, I didn’t get it. So, “Please, wont you help me, ‘H’ for hurry, ‘E’ for ergent, ‘L’ for love me and ‘P’ for p-p-please help.”

Becky

~ by beckyjay on October 3, 2007.