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On using “information processing” as a model for biological processes
Information and communication have long been used as models for talking about the way biology works.  Neurons as signal processors, hormones as messengers, DNA as code: are there no other ways to understand biology?  The Daily Transcript suggests that cybernetic or informational metaphors are just one […]

The increasing pervasiveness of pharmaceutical interventions in our lived experience (whatever being) demands that we reconfigure how we understand identity, and dramatically increases the stakes involved in such an understanding.
1. We must understand identity as experience or whatever being.  We must be psychonauts or adventurers of our literary and semiotic selves.  Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, […]

I’ve finally updated my books page with a review/analysis of Charis Thompson’s fascinating study of assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs). Her 2005 book, Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies contains some incredible insights into the nature of technology and human subjectivity, and amazingly (for a student like me) some really cool ideas about […]