Table of Contents for Signs of Life

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