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Abstract
Derrida’s performative reading of François Jacob’s account of DNA reproduction in The Logic of the Living focuses on Jacob’s interpretation of DNA as a logocentric text, one that is essentially without survival value. In line with other modern biologists, Jacob confuses metaphor and concept. He also looks forward to man’s “cerebral” (eugenic) control over evolution.