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Biological Processes as Writerly?
Environmental Humanities Pub Date : 2017-05-01 , DOI: 10.1215/22011919-3829163
John Charles Ryan

This article examines the DNA-based biopoetry of Christian Bök in relation to its antecedents in the art-science experiments of Joe Davis, Pak Chung Wong, and Eduardo Kac. In particular, I develop an ecocritical analysis of the process of encipherment at the center of their works. Wong encoded lyrics from the song “It’s a Small World After All”within the DNA of a bacterium. Similarly, Kac employs encipherment in Genesis, a project aiming to demonstrate that “biological processes are now writerly.” In the same way, Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1, published in 2015, involved enciphering poetry into the genome of the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. The organism’s cellular mechanisms “read” the encoded poem and produced a protein, the structure of which was then deciphered, resulting in another poem in response. In relation to these works, I ask the following: are biopoetry and the encipherment process merely conceptual and methodological experimentations, or do they reflect ecological consciousness and ethical imperative for life? Building on Foucault’s idea of the discourse of nature and Benjamin’s notion of a language of things, I explore how The Xenotext—and biopoetry more generally—reinscribe the power/knowledge relations implicit in the long-standing tropes of nature as a book, code, or cipher to be unraveled. Constructed as an inherently mute subject, nature is willed to speak purportedly on its own terms but through conspicuously humanmedia and in inescapably androgenic terms. An ecologically directed evaluation of biopoetry ultimately affirms the indebtedness of all literary production, including biopoetry, to other-thanhuman lives and bodies.

中文翻译:

生物过程像作家一样?

本文研究了克里斯蒂安·伯克(ChristianBök)基于DNA的生物诗歌,并将其与乔·戴维斯(Joe Davis),朴忠皇和爱德华多·卡克(Eduardo Kac)的艺术科学实验相关。特别是,我对他们工作中心的加密过程进行了生态批判性分析。Wong用细菌的DNA在歌曲“毕竟是小世界”中编码歌词。同样,卡克(Kac)在《创世纪》中使用了加密技术,该项目旨在证明“生物过程现在是书面的”。同样,博克(Bök)于2015年出版的《异种文本:第一卷》(The Xenotext:Book 1)涉及将诗歌编入细菌放射性杜鹃(Deinococcus radiodurans)的基因组中。生物体的细胞机制“读取”了编码的诗并产生了一种蛋白质,该蛋白质的结构随后被解密,从而产生了另一首诗作为回应。关于这些作品,我问以下问题:生物诗歌和加密过程仅仅是概念和方法上的实验,还是反映了生命的生态意识和道德要求?在福柯关于自然话语的思想和本杰明关于事物语言的概念的基础上,我探索异种文本以及更广泛的生物诗词如何将长期存在于自然的比喻中的力量/知识关系重新定义为一本书,一部代码,或破解密码。自然界被构造为固有的沉默主题,据称将按照其本身的术语进行发言,但要通过明显的人类媒体和不可避免的雄激素作用来进行。从生态学角度出发,对生物诗歌的评估最终肯定了包括文学诗歌在内的所有文学作品对人类以外的生命和身体的负债。生物诗歌和加密过程仅仅是概念和方法上的实验,还是反映了生命的生态意识和道德要求?在福柯关于自然话语的思想和本杰明关于事物语言的概念的基础上,我探索异种文本以及更广泛的生物诗词如何将长期存在于自然的比喻中的力量/知识关系重新定义为一本书,一部代码,或破解密码。自然界被构造为固有的沉默主题,据称将按照其本身的术语进行发言,但要通过明显的人类媒体和不可避免的雄激素作用来进行。从生态学角度出发,对生物诗歌的评估最终肯定了包括文学诗歌在内的所有文学作品对人类以外的生命和身体的负债。生物诗歌和加密过程仅仅是概念和方法上的实验,还是反映了生命的生态意识和道德要求?在福柯关于自然话语的思想和本杰明关于事物语言的概念的基础上,我探索异种文本以及更广泛的生物诗词如何将长期存在于自然的比喻中的力量/知识关系重新定义为一本书,一部代码,或破解密码。自然界被构造为固有的沉默主题,据称将按照其本身的术语进行发言,但要通过明显的人类媒体和不可避免的雄激素作用来进行。从生态学角度出发,对生物诗歌的评估最终肯定了包括文学诗歌在内的所有文学作品对人类以外的生命和身体的负债。
更新日期:2017-05-01
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