> Jean Baudrillard’s original dissertation on third-order simulacra opens with an attack on Jacques Monod, founding father of molecular biology. With two others, Monod received the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine for “discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.” In his book Chance and Necessity, Monod elaborates a philosophy for a universe without causality. But Baudrillard finds more than triumphal scientism here. This is an early attempt to give the coming technocracy its “natural philosophy.”
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