1. The genetic code: imaginaries and practices
2. Spaces of specificity: the discourse of molecular biology before the Age of Information
3. Production of discourse: cybernetics, information, life
4. Scriptural technologies: genetic codes in the 1950s
5. The Pasteur connection: Cybernétique enzymatique, gène informateur, and messenger RNA
6. Matter of information: writing genetic codes in the 1960s
7. In the beginning was the wor(l)d?