The Xenotext by Christian Bök
A hybrid of poetry, science and conceptual art that documents an ambitious attempt to inscribe language into living DNA so that a bacterium will carry and biologically “respond” to a poem. It lays out the inventive method of mapping letters to amino acids and designing peptides that could encode a secondary poem, chronicles the laboratory collaborations, technical obstacles and partial successes encountered, and reflects on the ethical, aesthetic and philosophical questions raised by trying to make a text biologically immortal. The book thereby blurs the boundaries between language and life, questioning authorship, durability and what it means for art to persist beyond human time scales.
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