New technologies allow human beings to create biological forms, which then introduces aesthetics as a component in biology and evolution. This aesthetization of biology then links it to art and raises questions about the implications for evolution.
The relationship between nature and metaphor and the ways in which “Reality (Nature) and Metaphor generate each other, then supersede each other to be created anew.” They are thinking about the ways in which the manipulation of nature through genetics and at the atomic level eliminates the need for representation and makes metaphor unnecessary. They propose this as a spiral of metamorphosis from known to unknown.
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