The body as communication network

 
Starling and Bayliss [inventors of "the concept of the hormone;" see separate note] are responsible for a conception "of the modern individual as a silent biochemical communication network, a complex interlacing of densely connected circuits that emit, receive, and decode biochemical information."

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

> tagged with #biology, #network, #communication, #body, #personhood

> created April 16, 2024 at 6:59:33 AM


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