Introduction | 1 |
1. Invisible Cities and Crystalline Books | 15 |
2. Chromosomes and Canons | 37 |
3. Sentences, Sculptures, and the Ambiguities of Translation | 64 |
4. the Molecular Word Processor | 90 |
5. Texts, Contexts, and the Transgenic Stage | 118 |
6. Between Physics and History: the New Paradigm of Biology | 149 |
Conclusion | 178 |
Further Reading | 184 |
Index | 203 |