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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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thanks eugene,, 


     Lets say this ,,, right now..  if the issues that were just presented
to not spark thought,, and possibly even response,, then ,, well we're in
big trouble..
   I mean ,, this is the shit,, as i sit here with a crt tube frying my
testicles (as in thewords of the ultimate pawn , brenda laurel) as i sit
here with my brain being scramlbed by elf.. as my tissue,, even at this
point,, is being manipulated and there fore my mind,, 

  if these issues do not seem like the battle for the hearts (the meat) and
minds (the infosphere).. what can i say..

    we're the generation that will make these choices,, will allow this
stuff to happen,, and as i'm not against it,, i've always felt mutant and
that mutation is pretty good,,  but if we can't approach these with unique
and novel viewpoints,, as opposed to thenytimes,,  gap ad ,, consumer
oriented information,,  (I'll just goto the mall and have my skin pigment
changed!!!)  (I'll buy johnny the new soft drink with HGH,, my saturdays are
open,, and himbeing good in sports will give me something to do.. and who
knows ,, maybe the other mothers will envyme,, hmmmm ,, maybe he needs a
steroid lollipop while i'm here..)
   if we are intent on a vanity based marketing and development of these
techs.. 
  we are in a denail of life,, and if i need to make the prophecy,, which i
will..  LIFE WILL FIGHT BACK

  or an old bible quote,, "all will be forgiven except sins against the holy
spirit"

   and if i need to explain,, if we corrupt the life force ,, shape it into
a consumer experience to be bought and sold,, with no thought of actual
creation..
  LIFE WILL FIGHT BACK,, and mankind is only one small colour in the
spectrum of life..  and to think we are more and all,, is again a crime
committed in the name of vanity..

   
  










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>ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
>LIFESCIENCE
>Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
>http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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>> if there is a genetic engineering revolution,, it will be ,, has been in
>> the consumer goods area..  all sorts of "goods" will be foisted on us,, and
>> who will be able to gauge the consequences?? and what will be done in the
>> name of profit??
>
>This is a good point - for all the media-hype and discussion concerning
>the bioethical problems w/ embryonic cloning, cell line patenting, etc.,
>one of the most direct effects of the biotech industry has been in
>product development - pharmaceuticals, but also biological products such
>as biomaterials (synthetic skin, vat-grown tissues, etc.) as well as the
>more familiar tradition in organ-economies.
>
>Especially w/ drugs, this is crucial because at no point do these
>corporations claim that such products are "self" - biological products
>marketed by the biotech industry remain at a safe distance as objects,
>technologies, and therapeutic tools different from self, so that the
>integrity of the autonomous organism (and by extension the individual
>subject) remain unthreatened.
>
>But we don't even need new developments in biotech to bring this up -
>transplantation (blood, organs) also begs this question - the permeable
>boundaries and dynamic heteogeneous quality of the biological human
>body, at once (as we are still being told by immunology) a battle-zone
>to be defended, and also a set of interchangable parts (transplantation,
>custom-designed drugs).
>
>So I wonder if the issue w/ biotech is less that it is simply producing
>the body, than that it is generating object-products which are
>fundamentally transforming the meaning of the biological body, all the
>while presenting such object-products as non-threatening to the
>boundaries of self...
>
>Eugene
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