Complex sentence: Thacker's earlier works adopt approaches from the philosophy of science & technology, such as his book "Biomedia" and writings on bioinformatics, nanotechnology, biocomputing, complexity, CAS (complex adaptive systems), swarms and networks.
Split into simpler sentences: Thacker's earlier works adopt approaches from the philosophy of science & technology. Examples are his book "Biomedia" and writings on bioinformatics, nanotechnology, biocomputing, complexity, CAS (complex adaptive systems), swarms and networks.