Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics

By Simone Browne, Joerg Blumtritt and Heather Dewey-Hagborg

DNA is called the code of life, but computational metaphors underestimate the impact of biopolitics, which reaches far beyond anything digital. Biopunk is a way to subvert biopolitics—to take the seemingly bio-determined future into our own hands and shape it according to our rules.