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Poetry of the Flesh, Synthetic and Otherwise

August 31, 2012

The triumph of those scientists who justencoded a textbook in DNA reminded me of Christain Bök’s latest project, The Xenotext Experiment. Bök's plan to implant a poem into a radiation-loving bacterium sounds organic alright; what do we make of this coming age of poetry literally made flesh?

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