From Bits to Bodies: Perfect Humans, Bioinformatic Visualizations, and Critical Relationality
In December 2014, computational biologist Lior Pachter posted the results of his “tongue in cheek” in silico genome experiment on his personal blog, where he declared his discovery that “the perfect human is Puerto Rican.” In this article, I analyze the “perfect human” experiment. I argue that despi...
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University of Alberta
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/imaginations/index.php/imaginations/article/view/29429 |