Green light : toward an art of evolution / George Gessert.
- Gessert, George, 1944-
- Date:
- [2010], ©2010
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Publication/Creation
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2010], ©2010.
Physical description
xxiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Divine plants and magical animals -- Aesthetic effects of domestication -- The rainforests of domestication -- The rise of ornamental plants -- Darwin's sublime -- Playing God -- Standards of excellence -- Doubles -- Kitsch plants -- Bastard flowers, genetic goofies, and Freud's bow wows -- Biotechnology in the garden -- Recent art involving DNA -- Naming life -- Anthropocentrism and genetic art -- The angel of extinction -- Seven breeding complexes -- The slowest art -- Breeding for wildness.
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- 9780262014144
- 0262014149