This readworthy wired article delivers an update on GM food and the Flavr Savr tomato …Transgenic researchers treat the genome like software, as if it contained binary code.
After an effectless search for an article on blogging, which I thought to have been reading recently on wired … drifting again .. Then finally I was lucky to come across that nice article of danah boyd,
As I promised to search some german texts on hybridity/identity issues .. and for reasons of sufficiency I will put them below here.
.. describing themselves as: NEWSgrist is an e-zine devoted to the politics of art and culture in the digital age; dedicated to bridging gaps between the digital and the non-technical,
... as Mostar’s ‘old bridge’ got rebuild….The bridge’s rebuilding has been welcomed by many, says our correspondent, but no-one is underestimating the gaps that still remain between Bosnia’s ethnic groups. from bbcimage source
The usefulness or uselessness of personal expression is going to be discussed since the first blogs appeared. Now blog entries are going to be linked at from google news page, as just happened via
“I find myself especially drawn by such engaging new beings as the tomato with a gene from a cold-sea-bottom-living flounder.”—Donna Haraway.. some still provocative thoughts from D. Haraway on hybrid forms from her book <