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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

by Nessa Carey · 5 Mar 2015 · 357pp · 98,853 words

JUNK DNA Also by Nessa Carey The Epigenetics Revolution JUNK DNA A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome NESSA CAREY Published in the UK in 2015 by Icon Books Ltd, Omnibus Business Centre, 39–41 North Road, London N7 9DP

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, who is always by my side And for Sheldon – good to see you again Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Nomenclature An Introduction to Genomic Dark Matter 1. Why Dark Matter Matters 2. When Dark Matter Turns Very Dark Indeed 3. Where Did All the Genes Go? 4. Outstaying an Invitation 5. Everything Shrinks When We Get Old

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6. Two is the Perfect Number 7. Painting with Junk 8. Playing the Long Game 9. Adding Colour to the Dark Matter 10. Why Parents Love Junk 11. Junk with a Mission 12. Switching It On, Turning It Up 13. No Man’s Land 14. Project ENCODE

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know them, they are in the footnotes, and the citations for the original references are at the back of the book. An Introduction to Genomic Dark Matter Imagine a written script for a play, or film, or television programme. It is perfectly possible for someone to read a script just as they

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this book we will explore the darkness by using the torch of human genetics. There are many ways to begin shining a light on the dark matter of our genome, so let’s start with an odd but unassailable fact to anchor us. Some genetic diseases are caused by mutations in junk

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DNA, and there is probably no better starting point for our journey into the hidden genomic universe than this. 1. Why Dark Matter Matters Sometimes life seems to be cruel in the troubles it piles onto a family. Consider this example. A baby boy was born; let’s

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our DNA devoted to coding for amino acids, the building blocks of proteins? What on earth is the other 98 per cent doing? 2. When Dark Matter Turns Very Dark Indeed The astonishing percentage of the genome that didn’t code for proteins was a shock. But it was the scale of

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the creation of this anecdote. b They are known as linc RNAs, which stands for long intergenic non-coding RNAs. 9. Adding Colour to the Dark Matter In biology, the question What does something do? is almost always followed by the question How does it do it?. We know what long non

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

by Simone Browne · 1 Oct 2015 · 326pp · 84,180 words

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by Natalie F. Smith Typeset in Arno Pro by Graphic Composition, Inc., Athens, GA Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Browne, Simone, [date] author. Dark matters : on the surveillance of blackness / Simone Browne. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8223-5919-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978

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Office of the President at the University of Texas at Austin, which provided funds toward the publication of this book. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction, and Other Dark Matters 1 Notes on Surveillance Studies Through the Door of No Return 2 “Everybody’s Got a Little Light under the Sun” The Making of the

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. Parts of chapter 3 have been revised from “Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics,” Critical Sociology 36, no. 1 (2010): 131–150. INTRODUCTION, AND OTHER DARK MATTERS “The CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive to your request.” Sometime in the spring of 2011, I wrote

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, a connection made by many radical black feminists in the United States from Angela Davis to Toni Cade Bambara and bell hooks.”9 I enter Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness with this sense of optimism in mind: that in Fanon’s works and in the writings of black feminist scholars

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, another mode of reading surveillance can be had. Dark Matters begins with a discussion of my failed attempt to get my hands on any information from the CIA pertaining to Fanon, his FBI FOIA file

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he rode in France, that are shaped for and by whiteness, where “instead of one seat, they left me two or three,” he writes.13 Dark Matters takes up blackness, as metaphor and as lived materiality, and applies it to an understanding of surveillance. I work across multiple spaces (the airport, the

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. . . an’ black ain’t.”16 Fanon’s “Look, a Negro!,” his articulations of epidermalization, and his anticolonial thought have influenced the formation of this book. Dark Matters suggests that an understanding of the ontological conditions of blackness is integral to developing a general theory of surveillance and, in particular, racializing surveillance—when

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feminist scholarship, by “intersecting surveillances” I am referring to the interdependent and interlocking ways that practices, performances, and policies regarding surveillance operate. The concept of dark matter might bring to mind opacity, the color black, limitlessness and the limitations imposed on blackness, the dark, antimatter, that which is not optically available, black

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holes, the Big Bang theory, and other concerns of cosmology where dark matter is that nonluminous component of the universe that is said to exist but cannot be observed, cannot be re-created in laboratory conditions. Its distribution

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is said to move galaxies. Invisible and unknowable, yet somehow still there, dark matter, in this planetary sense, is theoretical. If the term “dark matter” is a way to think about race, where race, as Howard Winant puts it, “remains the dark matter, the often invisible substance that in many ways structures the universe of modernity

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blackness in general.19 Taking up blackness in surveillance studies in this way, as rather unperceived yet producing a productive disruption of that around it, Dark Matters names the surveillance of blackness as often unperceivable within the study of surveillance, all the while blackness being that nonnameable matter that matters the racialized

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disciplinary society. It is from this insight that I situate Dark Matters as a black diasporic, archival, historical, and contemporary study that locates blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and enacted. Surveillance

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in his introduction to Invisible Man “the bland assertions of sociologists,” where in observing, tallying, quantifying, indexing, and surveilling, black life was made “unvisible.”26 Dark Matters stems from a questioning of what would happen if some of the ideas occurring in the emerging field of surveillance studies were put into conversation

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,” there still remains a certain absence in the literature “on the pre-9/11 forms of surveillance that made post-9/11 surveillance possible.”29 Dark Matters seeks to make an intervention in the literature by naming the “absented presence” of blackness as part of that absence in the literature that Hier

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. For the astronomical telescope, the aperture is the optical element that gathers light and brings the atmosphere into focus. No telescope, so far, can make dark matter visible. Rhode’s subject in the Pan’s Opticon series is suited up with a prosthetic look. His ocular interrogation confronts the Panopticon and the

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architecture of surveillance—corners, shadows, reflections, and light—covering the wall with dark matter. On the subject of walls and architecture, Rhode writes that “when one speaks of walls, one speaks of security, privacy, and demarcation.”127 Rhode’s

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the storyboard, the circles refracted by the subject’s eyes multiply, overlapping each other like disorganized Venn diagrams until the corner is completely covered in dark matter. In one frame, no neat stenciled circles appear, just two solid but smaller black circles of spray paint dripping down from the calipers onto the

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this question, in the second section of this chapter, Branding Biometrics, I examine the role played by prototypical whiteness and how it is coupled with dark matter in the making of some bodies and not others as problematic in biometric technology and its attendant practices. By “practices” I am referring here specifically

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made possible only through the unambiguous black-white binary; the contrapuntal extremes that anchor the spectrum, leaving the unmeasurable dark matter clustered at one end. Prototypical whiteness cannot be understood without the dark matter that gets clustered at one end of the spectrum, without those bodies and body parts that fail to enroll.86

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inventory of the things she travels with and the things that she puts in storage: books, troubles, instruments, her kitchen sink, weapons-grade plutonium, and dark matter. FIGURE 4.2. Evan Roth, TSA Communication (2008). Courtesy of the artist. Conceptual artist Evan Roth’s Art in Airports series offers a performance as

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Black Desi asks that we watch what happens when his “blackness enters the frame,” he names what has been one of the driving concerns of Dark Matters. That is, when blackness, black human life, and the conditions imposed upon it enter discussions of surveillance, what does this then do to those very

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whiteness, or lightness, as privileged in enrollment, measurement, and recognition processes, and, as I argued in that chapter, prototypical whiteness is reliant upon dark matter for its own meaning. Dark matter being those bodies and body parts that trouble some biometric technology, like dark irises or cameras that “can’t see black people” or

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further marginalization, and in some cases the disenfranchisement, of people who because of industry-determined standard algorithms encounter difficulty in using this technology.6 When dark matter troubles algorithms in this way, it amounts to a refusal of the idea of neutrality when it comes to certain technologies. But if algorithms can

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and other computer vision technologies in public and private spaces, but rather leave it up to the individual to adapt. One of the tasks of Dark Matters has been to situate the dark, blackness, and the archive of slavery and its afterlife as a way to trouble and expand understandings of surveillance

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opens up the possibilities for fugitive acts of escape, resistance, and the productive disruptions that happen when blackness enters the frame. NOTES Introduction, and Other Dark Matters 1. Beauvoir, The Force of Circumstance, 606. 2. Bhabha, “Foreword,” viii. 3. Beauvoir, The Force of Circumstance, 606. 4. Quoted in Geismar, Fanon, 185. 5

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, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora,” 231. 15. Walcott, Black Like Who?, 132. 16. Ellison, Invisible Man, 9. 17. Collins, Black Feminist Thought, 18. 18. Winant, “The Dark Matter,” 10. 19. Hammonds, “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality,” 139. 20. Baldwin, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, 44. 21. Bambara

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certain biometric technologies are “infrastructurally calibrated to whiteness” (5). 83. Dyer, White, 103. 84. Ibid. 85. Nanavati, Thieme, and Nanavati, Biometrics, 37. 86. The terms “dark matter” and “white prototypicality” are borrowed from Lewis R. Gordon’s discussion of double consciousness in “Is the Human a Teleological Suspension of Man?” 87. Lao

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, Robyn. American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. Williams, Sherley Ann. Dessa Rose. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Winant, Howard. “The Dark Matter.” Racial and Ethnic Studies 35, no. 4 (2012): 600–607. _____. The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Wood

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, Berna, 135–36 Cryer, Desi, 161–64 CV Dazzle project (Harvey), 163–64 Damiens, Robert-François, 35–38 dance, 81–82, 164 Danger (ship), 25 dark matter, 2, 9, 114, 181n86 dark sousveillance, 12, 21–24, 54, 68, 164. See also blacks; racism dataveillance, 18. See also surveillance Davies, Carole Boyce, 10

The City

by Tony Norfield · 352pp · 98,561 words

every cent of reality, but this is to ignore an evident fact that the yields are different. The extra US assets are given the name ‘dark matter’ and, as one might expect, including this results in the US having a net surplus on its investment position.24 This feat is achieved by

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, 1960–present’, 2014, Table 1.1, lines 6 and 14, at bea.gov. 24Ricardo Hausmann and Federico Sturzenegger, ‘Global Imbalances or Bad Accounting? The Missing Dark Matter in the Wealth of Nations’, Centre for International Development at Harvard University, Working Paper No. 124, January 2006, pp. 3–8, at hks.harvard.edu

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by Walter Scheidel · 17 Jan 2017 · 775pp · 208,604 words

the premodern past, a potentially widespread phenomenon that will for the most part forever remain obscured from the modern observer. It forms a kind of “dark matter” in the history of inequality, almost certainly present but hard to pin down. ”THE COUNTRY IS SO BROKEN”: CONTEMPORARY STATE FAILURE IN SOMALIA However severe

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021

Violence, Black Fugitive Belonging, and a Turtle Island View of Black Liberation,” Critical Ethnic Studies 5, nos. 1–2 (April 2019): 124–51; Simone Browne, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Durham: Duke University Press: 2015). 44.Maynard, “Black Life and Death across the US–Canada Border,” 127. 45.Roberto Lavato

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benefits of today. Since that time, other crowdsourced competitions have been used to develop breakthroughs in everything from healthcare, to creating better algorithms to find dark matter, to cleaning our oceans. One of the key attributes of crowdsourcing is that it is open to participation; it allows ideas and contribution to come

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

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voids millions of light-years across. The discovery made the front page of the New York Times and helped lay the foundation for the current dark matter–based view of the universe.30 John became one of the most highly cited astronomers of the twentieth century. In 1991, when we had our

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over. Our first big contract was a NASA/DOE project, working for the people who were providing the sensors used to discover the origins of dark matter in the universe. They were all located in Pisa, Italy, where Galileo studied. They know a thing or two about astrophysics. It required us to

Hawai'I Becalmed: Economic Lessons of the 1990s

by Christopher Grandy · 30 Sep 2002 · 145pp · 43,599 words

that Hawai‘i has not done nearly enough to attract high tech. See Anthony Lawrence Clapes, Blue Wave Millennium: A Future for Hawai‘i. (Honolulu: Dark Matter Press, 2000). Paul Romer and Robert Lucas are among the leading writers in this area. See Paul Romer, “The Origins of Endogenous Growth,” Journal of

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Jersey and Pennsylvania: Reply.” American Economic Review, 90(5)(December 2000): 1397–1420. Clapes, Anthony Lawrence. Blue Wave Millennium: A Future for Hawai‘i. Honolulu: Dark Matter Press, 2000. Crampon, L. J. Hawai‘i’s Visitor Industry, Its Growth and Development. University of Hawai‘i, School of Travel Industry Management, 1976. Eisner

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. Hamel, G. (2012). What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation. Jossey-Bass. Hill, D. (2012). Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary. Strelka Press. Hinssen, P. (2004). The New Normal: Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk. Portfolio Hardcover

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