ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 looks at the way in which Craig Venter’s affective self, which following the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet’s work I call hyper-contemporary personality, was consistent or isomorphic with the cognitive choices he made and how these choices, on the one hand, forced the direction and logic of the public consortium on the mapping of human genome and, on the other, resulted into the hyper-reductionism of human genome science.
