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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 221–232.
Published: 01 February 2001
... 2001 by Duke University Press. 222 boundary 2 / Spring 2001 language than in terms of the actual scientific roots of the positions them- selves. An appraisal of the felicitousness of using the ‘‘language of DNA’’ in domains outside science proper needs not only an ethical dimension but also...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 233–246.
Published: 01 August 2023
... experience through this lens. If African American literature begins in the eighteenth century with figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Prince Hall, and Job ben Solomon, how do we understand the DNA of their imagination if we only start at the shores of America? If they are representative of the great numbers...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 197–218.
Published: 01 May 2004
... to regenerate decaying brain tissue in the last stages of syphilis, stumbles upon a DNA conglomerate that she can- not name: the ‘‘calcutta chromosome A chromosome only by analogy, this genetic bundle, we are told with grave objectivity, would amount to a ‘‘biologi- cal correlate’’ to the ‘‘human soul...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 91–92.
Published: 01 November 2015
... phenotype my first night at the B & B. Later he said I was the most beautiful poet he’d ever seen. I wanted to know precisely how many poets he’d seen—he wanted to know precisely where my DNA fit into some sort of scheme. It’s not a choice between Brer Rabbit and the Holy Grail or hair’s strange...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 195–215.
Published: 01 February 2015
... need to stay alive in a world of hyperbolic conflict) it seeks to unify the body politic through the generation of an esprit de corps—­an ontological guarantee as naturally organic and formally veri- fiable as DNA. Attempts to discover natural forms of unification obtained increasing...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (1): 73–101.
Published: 01 February 2019
... Press . Eyring Henry J. Christensen Clayton M. 2011 . The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out . San Francisco : Jossey- Bass . Flaherty Colleen . 2016 . “ Refusing to Be Measured .” Inside Higher Ed , May 11 , 2016 . https...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 133–153.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., including samples of DNA from the remaining species of plant and animal that have survived the recent spike in planetwide biocide. Such a project bears repeating, albeit in a more Copernican spirit regarding the archived content, since it should remind us that we are closer to chimpan- zees...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 213–239.
Published: 01 August 2003
... in the nucleusbears remarkable isomorphism with our modern mechanism of DNA, RNA, and the differentiation of cells’’ (424). Having restored de Vries to respectability, Gould asked ‘‘whether anything in [Richard] Goldschmidt’s...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 145–156.
Published: 01 May 2017
...- plexity makes less sense, however, when it comes to the natural world. We can infer intelligence according to Dembski when we encounter a complex string of information or an object characteristic of intelligence. But trees, hurricanes, and DNA sequences are precisely not information or objects...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (1): 143–172.
Published: 01 February 2016
... the living and nonliving. But the Fodorian conception also marks the foundational place of information within the biosphere. We can no longer think of the protein-­ producing interactions of DNA, RNA, and amino acids in living cells without thinking of information and its reliable causal covariance...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 239–265.
Published: 01 February 2017
... allohuman primacy that now destroys this spell; second, as the last echo of Christian redemptive time, it mimes the apocalyptic DNA that goes into the Hollywood blockbusters, projecting a survival and renewed narrative. More: hoisted with its own historicizing petard, only this time indexed...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 163–178.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in criticism. He talks about the recombinant effect of DNA, and it strikes me that it’s a model for Williams / b2 Interview with Wai Chee Dimock 175 you in describing how literary history works, and also for your own writing. In one chapter in Through Other Continents—“Genre...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 173–187.
Published: 01 August 2023
... ) alike. 4 People in the United States today purchase DNA ancestry tests because race is genealogical; their state bans Muslim travelers because race is religious; municipal governments implement stop-and-frisk policies because race is ocular; and shopkeepers demand that patrons speak English because...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 69–104.
Published: 01 February 2023
... allusion to Dawkins, “KEK, when the letters are composited together, resembles the double-helix pattern of DNA” (Saint Obamas MomJeans 2016 : 4). Dawkins's theory, which retained popularity in right circles, offers a conception of memes as active, self-reproducing, and contagious systems of ideas that do...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 69–85.
Published: 01 May 2002
...’’ in the ‘‘processes of coding and decodinga mutation, the sort of thing that happens when a cosmic ray disturbs an organism’s DNA. Translated to the macrolevel, such deviations become ‘‘a disease, a deficiency, or a mon- strosity’’ (2:476). On the cultural level, they become ‘‘unthinkable’’ claims...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 141–155.
Published: 01 August 2003
...- sation—the arsenal of modern technology: photographic and phonographic records, and the whole range of chemical and biological testings, from old carbon-14 to DNA analyses and all the contemporary gadgetry that makes...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 17–34.
Published: 01 February 2021
... that race does not exist at a genetic level. Yet the profound hold of the philological idea of racial descent has such a powerful hold on us that even evidence of its falsity is taken as evidence that it is true. The popular idea of DNA and genetics has many sources, and it would be wrong to ignore...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 97–117.
Published: 01 August 2005
.... Frederick G. Lawrence (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987), 119, 127, 185; for the same charge leveled at Derrida, see 197. Hereafter, this work is cited parenthetically as PDM. 106 boundary 2 / Fall 2005 activating in the sociocultural DNA of Enlightenment—a.k.a. modernity, late capitalism...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 179–200.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of rhetoric and poetics is integral. That would be easy enough to do if only a monumental bias against rhetoric and poetics were not such a basic part of our scholarly DNA. The best way around this problem is to go through it, for the story of how rhetoric and poetics have been suppressed is also...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 155–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
... this “hard evidence,” only testimony, usually by those who keep these memorials and guide visitors through them, turns the bones from transhistorical icons of death into the markers of a historical event. Although DNA testing or other . See Blum’s description of the memorial museum—and how...