Having elsewhere explored the dimensions of social and political control in electronic culture, the Critical Arts Ensemble here turns full frontal towards the body, arguing that utopian promises of virtuality are simple distractions from the real project: the deployment of biotechnologies upon the bodies of citizens in the service of the transnational order.
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Who desires to become the flesh machine?-CIC (hactivist.com),
By Joel Brown (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Flesh Machine; Cyborgs,Designer Babies, Eugenic Conscousness (Paperback)
As most conspiracy theorists tend to do, Critical Art Ensemble presents a dark future for humanity. But do think that I am trying to call them conspiracy theorists in the sense of wacky unrealistic neurotics who have seen the" X-files" one too many times. Rather, their look at the future of politics and society is a realistic threat, especially since the lebensraum for eugenics is being set in the age of modern technology, soil for seeds that could not be fully sown in a time such as, say, Nazi Germany where the extent of eugenics was mandatory sterilization, selective breeding, and genocide. They have already exposed the pseudonyms that eugenic consciousness, cyborgs, and designer babies will take on to be socially 'acceptable'. It is a recurrence of Social Darwinist thought, that of social and economic evolution. But CAE undermines the thought of Darwin as manifest in society, socially--(not biologically, namely since natural selection is thought of as a random process and involving chance mutation, while that of society is planned and guided by the intelligence of authorities in their utopian megalomania) If presented correctly in the correct settings, eugenics will be taken for granted. It will eliminate biological causes of anti-social behavior, and drugs used to treat them will not be needed. This attempt at a pure gene pool will be interpreted as the quality that consumers deserve for their dollar, and in the pancapitalist train of thought quality of life equals economic performance. Parents will not want "abnormal" offspring who might be socio-economically unproductive in the working class. Whether or not this future comes to pass in these extreme forms, these political philosophies of society are already sad but true, and yet, taken for granted by the masses as quite simply the way things are and always were. If these thoughts sound absurd as realities, I would invite you to remember the first wave of attempts at a pure race, Nazi Germany. Carl Gustav Jung wrote in his time, "If 30 years ago anyone had dared to predict that our psychological development was tending towards a revival of the medieval persecutions of the Jews, that Europe again would tremble before the Roman fasces and the trampling of legions, that people would once more give the Roman salute, as 2000 years ago, and that instead of the Christian cross an archaic swastika would lure onwards millions of warriors ready for death--why that man would have been hooted a mystical fool. And today? Surprising as it may seem, all this absurdity is a horrible reality." Hopefully, CAE will never have to say 'told you so.'
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Flesh Machine and Your Future,
By A Customer
This review is from: Flesh Machine; Cyborgs,Designer Babies, Eugenic Conscousness (Paperback)
The Flesh Machine is a very good for those that a too empatient to dip their mind in the muddy but eluminating waters of continental thought. It is very enjoyable, disturbing read, for it is another person that has came to simialar conclusion about genetics and the meat grinder affect capitalism has and will have on the human flesh. Grind it to be a better worker. Produce and Consume. It will be economic imperatives that will drive the future of genetics. This is a must read, for it is our future.
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