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Yet the result subverts the science in the direction of chaos and cacophony. How is any artist to confront the excruciating complexity of the human genome – or any genome for that matter?… Jacobs has created something that is very directly drawn from the science and its diffusion, using the tools of a rabid bibliographer-cum-classifier. Yet paradoxically the vagaries of any book printing process, which are amplified by the print on demand method and pressured by Jacobs’ typography, ensure that each copy of the Index is unique. The solid physicality of the Index contrasts with the ever-changing Report. The Index to the Report sets fragments collected form those websites against the background of the earlier draft sequence originally published by the open access online document archive, Project Gutenberg. Those polemics are put into the context of history and everyday life through Jacobs’ fluid ebook archive, which contains links to over 250 websites collected in the months following the announcement, and whose contents change, migrate and disappear over time. The ebook, We Report Here, documents the ethical, economic, political and philsophical polemics associated with this scientific quest in the wake of the announcement in the journal Nature (December, 2004) of its completion. What did we say, do and think about genetics, nature, human nature and the possibilities for change that science and technology seemed to be opening up in the wake of the Human Genome Project? How are these debates moving on? Jacobs’ Deciphering Human Chromosone 16 project sharply explores these questions and more through its pair of publications. A galactic, nano Rosetta stone… It’s a wonderful and baffling object. To have the volume open on one’s desk is to stare into some kind of teeming cosmos, teeming with information which somehow issues from a tiny speck in our bodies.

This book uses text in a visual way to document the debates associated with the mapping of the human genome, and functions as the Index to the ebook Deciphering Human Chromosone 16: We Report Here, also published by information as material and freely downloadable here. Deciphering Human Chromosone 16: Index to the Report Sarah Jacobs

On the road jack kerouac project gutenberg