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	Genome liberation - Salon
		Biopunk shares with cyberpunk a spirit of social critique in the sciences, and a commitment to limiting corporate control of data.
		Biopunk also differs from cyberpunk in that it is associated with the life sciences and medicine, two areas of inquiry that have a long history of ethical debate over the relationship between research and the public good.
		Biopunks can therefore call on a venerable tradition of philosophical thought when they raise objections to how scientists are gathering and using genomic data.
	dir.salon.com /story/tech/feature/2002/02/26/biopunk/?pn=3 (895 words)

	Metroactive Features \| Work
		Biopunks are the visionaries whose imaginations were set on fire by the knowledge that we had finally sequenced the human genome last year.
		Biopunks hack genomic data, lining up human genomes next to mouse genomes to find out what the two species have in common and what they don't (surprise: they have way more in common than you could possibly ever imagine).
		Biopunk even has an artistic branch, inspired by Chicago artist Eduardo Kac (see www.ekac.org), whose "transgenic bunny" inspired massive global controversy last year.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.09.01/work-0132.html (664 words)

	AlterNet: Biopunks Cry, "Free Our Genetic Data!"
		Biopunks are the visionaries and biotech wizards whose imaginations were set on fire by the knowledge that we had finally sequenced the human genome last year.
		The public human genome sequence exists in rough draft form, and many scientists believe that this HGP public information may be far more accurate than Celera's -- partly due to the number of people working on it, and partly due to the sequencing technique that the public consortium is using.
		Biopunk fiction writers like Octavia Butler (check out her amazing Xenogenesis Trilogy) play with the idea of genetic engineering as a revolutionary practice.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=11278 (962 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| Genome liberation
		In addition to scientists, a number of artists and cultural critics -- some of whom are now proudly branding themselves as "biopunks" -- are also sounding warnings about the importance of giving the public a voice in how their bodies' genomic information gets used.
		Not every bioinformatics researcher necessarily considers herself to be pursuing the same cause as self-described biopunks, but together, they may represent a movement in the making, one dedicated to the proposition that the information that defines humanity is too precious to be private.
		Cyberpunk finds expression in big-budget Hollywood pictures like "The Matrix"; biopunk animates the bizarre art of people like San Francisco biopunk artist Dale Hoyt, whose cult video "Transgenic Hairshirt" has been passed from hand to hand in the San Francisco art underground.
	archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2002/02/26/biopunk/print.html (2687 words)

	The Politics of Transhumanism
		Biopunk shares with cyberpunk a spirit of social critique in the sciences, and a commitment to limiting corporate control of data… Biopunks can therefore call on a venerable tradition of philosophical thought when they raise objections to how scientists are gathering and using genomic data.
		Moreover, biopunks often protest misuses of the human body and its reproductive functions, which makes biopunk a considerably more feminist and queer movement than straight-guy cyberpunk ever was… (Biopunk is) all about protesting both "bio-Luddites and apologists for the biotech industry."
		Newitz writes about the biopunk Coalition of Artists and Life Forms (CALF), a loose network of artists who are excited about, even celebratory about biotechnology, but critical of its capitalist exploitation and limitations.
	www.changesurfer.com /Acad/TranshumPolitics.htm (11056 words)

	The Rise of Homo Superior
		The biopunk movement accelerated the cultural acceptance of germline engineering, which was developing in more and other ways than merely cosmetic, athletic, intellectual, or for clone farming.
		More commonly, they were called the Tweaks, an early biopunk term, for their enthusiasm of "tweaking" their genome and achieving the optimal geneprint.
		While some tweaks became wealthy through working for, and eventually running, megacorporations, and aggressively protected their patented geneprints, others, like the biopunks before them, were strongly anti-business and anti-patent, adopting the biopunk slogan "genomes want to be free" and exchanging DNA source-codes and phenotypal simulations, often via DNI.
	www.orionsarm.com /historical/rise_of_Homo_Superior.html (1249 words)

	Axis of Ævil » Biopunk barfbag
		I used to work in 'bioinformatics' before it became trendy by surving the economy after all the dot bombs went sneakers up and it sounds like the 'cyberpunks' are trying to refashion themselves as 'biopunks'.
		Information doesn't want to be free biopunk boy, it wants to be filtered, analysed and made into something meaningful for your brain.
		We don't need some 'biopunk' poseur, we need educated people who can do something useful with the data and hopefully make breakthroughs that will be handled in a humane and ethical way.
	www.axis-of-aevil.net /archives/000033.html (552 words)

	Technology in Youth Fiction -- Biopunk
		Biopunk is a term given to future worlds science fiction where genetic engineering is key to the plot.
		Starsplit by Kathryn Lasky portrays a government with massive control over society, specifically their biology and reproduction.
		The Hexes aren't necessarily forces for good, being mainly concerned with self-preservation, but they are sympathetic in that they have close group bonds and look out for each other.
	www.slais.ubc.ca /COURSES/libr500/05-06-wt2/www/A_Galbraith/biopunk.htm (380 words)

	Superiors
		From as early as the mid 21st century c.e., augmented human genotypes have exerted a strong guiding influence on terragen society and culture, whether mediating between nearbaselines and transapients, or striking out in their own directions.
		The first Superiors grew out of the biohacker, biopunk, and ribofunk subcultures of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AT.
		By the late 2nd century the self tweaked and the superbabies had become corporatised, and new experiments in genomic optimization were taking place in the Earthside Freezones, the Orbitals, on the Moon, Mars, and the Belt.
	www.orionsarm.com /sophontology/superiors.html (725 words)

	Life Enhancement Products Presents: NeoFiles
		to biopunk — decentralized, independent noodling with life forms biology (presumably including our own) you’re about 99.9% of the way to a transhumanist perspective (and in some ways, beyond it).
		After all, as many people have pointed out rather tiresomely, there are ways to use drugs and biopunk in an evil, socially destructive way.
		Biopunk is not what’s going to save humanity from destruction.
	www.life-enhancement.com /le/neofiles/default.asp?ID=54 (1360 words)

	Biopunk - Cyber Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Biopunk je složen z kombinace slov "biotech" a "punk".
		Biopunk je pod-žánrem science fiction, který užívá elementy z detektivního románu, filmových vytěžků, Japoneských Anime, a z post-modernické prózy.
		článek o biopunk z Interkomu 2/1991 zajímavý článek o českém cyberpunk a biopunku z interkomu 1/1995
	www.kyberpunk.org /wiki/index.php/Biopunk (109 words)

	Amazon.com: Crache: Books: Mark Budz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A challenge to both the imagination and the intellect, the first few chapters are dense with confusing jargon and unheard-of social schemas; readers are thrown into this brave new world without a guide (nor a glossary, for that matter, making at least one reread essential).
		Crache continues the fresh vision of the BioPunk future pioneered in its predecessor Clade, but beyond inspiring the naming of a new sub-genre in SF, both novels are also full blown revivals of the New Wave of the 60s and 70s.
		Probably the first thing a reader notices is the profusion of jargon and jingle-like punning, a lot of the puns are obvious, like `tattunes' for programmable tattoos which can play music, while the technical language is rarely defined and has to be picked up largely from context.
	www.amazon.com /Crache-Mark-Budz/dp/0553586599 (2518 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Crache / Mark Budz
		Crache is a stand-alone novel set in the same biopunk future as Mark Budz' debut Clade.
		I just never got deeply involved in the story, and for the most part, I attribute this to Budz' style-heavy prose.
		I hope, in his next book, that Mark Budz lets his talents flow more naturally, and that he isn't so eager to allow his writing to overpower his story.
	www.sfreviews.net /crache.html (608 words)

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	Cyberpunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeter and James Blaylock, and biopunk or alternatively ribofunk, in which Paul Di Filippo is prominent.
		The early 1990s saw the emergence of biopunk AKA ribofunk, a derivative style building not on informational technology but on biology.
		Paul Di Filippo is seen as the most prominent biopunk writer, although Bruce Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist cycle is also a major influence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyberpunk (4287 words)

	Biopunk
		The answer has already arrived: It's the biopunk
		Biopunks urge us to think about just how
		Biopunk fiction writers like Octavia Butler play with
	www.ekac.org /biopunk.html (368 words)

	cyberpunkreview.com » Alien Page 3: The Chest-bursting Scene
		But visually, this movie is absolutely critical to cyberpunk, in that many a cyberpunk movie has been influenced by it, including Blade Runner.
		Biopunk, to me, is more along the lines of say, GATTACA…genetic manipulation, etc. RESURRECTION, to me, was the most Biopunk of the Quadrilogy.
		At least Biopunk has the genetic coding angle to differentiate itself from the others… IP is probably the most difficult to define.
	www.cyberpunkreview.com /alien-page-3-the-chest-bursting-scene (807 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Idolon / Mark Budz
		His first two novels, Clade and Crache, were intriguing but sometimes awkward exercises in finding his voice.
		(I just couldn't get into Crache.) Idolon is the best realization yet of his ambitious biopunk themes.
		Even so, its ideas are more compelling than its noirish story, which has its share of lapses into confusion and inaccessibility.
	www.sfreviews.net /idolon.html (1022 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Post-cyberpunk science fiction continues to exfoliate into such divergent forms as the work of
		One form, which is the impulse to mix "lowlifes and high tech" in a hip, suspenseful fashion, might be dubbed "biopunk," from the cover blurb herewith provided by Kevin J. Anderson.
		Or, to use another term that I coined some 15 years ago, "ribofunk." This type of fiction features the noir stylings of cyberpunk ameliorated by the jazzy panache of tropical rhythms, all centering around advances on the biological frontier.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue399/books.html (980 words)

	This Just In...News from The Agony Column
		So, not wishing to damage your various precious first editions of 'Venniss Underground', you'll be happy to hear that Pan Macmillan is soon to offer a handy, stick-it-in-your-pocket mass market paperback version of 'Veniss Underground', which includes the quite disturbing novella from his Golden Gryphon short story collection'Secret Life', 'Balzac's War'.
		So now, finally, you're good to read VanderMeer's biopunk novel while enjoying fine, but cheap cuisine.
		Once you've locked in all these choices, you can rejoice that there will be even more versions of the VanderMeer titles you love and may not yet own.
	trashotron.com /agony/news/2004/10-25-04.htm (6592 words)

	Biopunk: Grim Meathook Future » Technoccult
		Michael Crook vs. EFF and 10 Zen Monkeys.
		Filed under: society, Biopunk — Klintron @ 6:55 pm
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	www.technoccult.com /archives/2005/09/23/biopunk-grim-meathook-future (94 words)

	CybDem: 'Let's get out of the streets and into the lab!' cries the biopunk feminist
		CybDem: 'Let's get out of the streets and into the lab!' cries the biopunk feminist
		From Annalee Newitz's Artifical Womb and Pregnant Men: "The primary goal of a feminist genetic engineering project is to cut the reproductive process loose from patriarchy and male domination.
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	cyborgdemocracy.net /2006/06/lets-get-out-of-streets-and-into-lab.html (471 words)

	SF Citations for OED
		Cyberpunk and `biopunk' writers `often foreground [the] metafictional potential of paraspace' by developing an analogy between the author of the text and the author of the cyberspace or paraspace world.
		2002 `R. Cool SF Genre: Biopunk in Rolling Stone
		Its successor, biopunk, is about biotechnology and hacking the gene pool.
	www.jessesword.com /sf/view/608 (122 words)

	Cowlix: December 01, 2001 Archives
		Paul Taylor's Fleshing Out the Maelstrom: Biopunk and the Violence of Information, from M/C, and some
		Random access memory: an experiment in collective recollection [via Bifurcated Rivets]
		FBI from spying on religious and political organizations.
	www.cowlix.com /wcowley/log/2001/12/01 (105 words)

	Amazon.com: Ribofunk: Books: Paul Di Filippo,Paul Di Filippo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		First tag: biopunk (Paul D. Geiser on Nov 2, 2006)
		Engrossing, well-realized biopunk world of "Tomorrow", February 19, 2002
		If I were Tim Robbins in Robert Altman's 'The Player' I might pitch a well-read exec like this: Imagine a biopunk version of William Gibson's 'Burning Chrome'.
	www.amazon.com /Ribofunk-Paul-Di-Filippo/dp/1568580622 (1983 words)

	Idolon by Mark Budz : Booksamillion.com (0553588508, Paperback)
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		Philosophically adventurous, technologically adept, this fast-paced biopunk thriller from the author of "Crache" asks: when biological information is downloaded into people, who is programming it?
		Mark Budz' third novel, Idolon, takes place in Santa Cruz about a hundred years into the future.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0553588508 (246 words)

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