From the daily archives:

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Would you rather be a Cyborg or a Goddess?

by Frank Paynter on August 25, 2007

Representation Simulation
Bourgeois novel, realism Science fiction, postmodernism
Organism Biotic component
Depth, integrity Surface, boundary
Heat Noise
Biology as clinical practice Biology as inscription
Physiology Communications engineering
Small group Subsystem
Perfection Optimization
Eugenics Population control
Decadence, Magic Mountain Obsolescence, Future Shock
Hygiene Stress Management
Microbiology, tuberculosis Immunology, AIDS
Organic division of labour Ergonomics/cybernetics of labour
Functional specialization Modular construction
Reproduction Replication
Organic sex role specialization Optimal genetic strategies
Biological determinism Evolutionary inertia, constraints
Community ecology Ecosystem
Racial chain of being Neo-imperialism, United Nations humanism
Scientific management in home/factory Global factory / electronic cottage
Home / market / factory Women in the Integrated Circuit
Family wage Comparable worth
Public / Private Cyborg citizenship
Nature / Culture Fields of difference
Co-operation Communications enhancement
Freud Lacan
Sex Genetic engineering
Labour Robotics
Mind Artificial Intelligence
Second World War Star Wars
White Capitalist Patriarchy Informatics of Domination

See Donna Haraway’s [Provocative leader]: [Three legged follow]

For less stressed and perhaps more immediate and clear political discussion straight from heartland, no detours through Santa Cruz or crystal junction, see “Another Blog is Possible.”

p.s. I was making it up about Trotsky’s death by Celeriac. He was found face down in a bowl of mashed potatoes. Has it been three score and seven years already? can we have a sense of humour about this, please people?

p.p.s. How do you address “theory” and postmodernism when the naming itself is so absurdly circular and one knows that whatever’s happening is post-the-movement-formerly-known-as-pomo? Having asked this question for years and years, I never thought the answer would be important to me. Oh, the shame of it all. “desire’s raison d’etre is not to realize its goal, to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire.” Can you have Lacan without Zizek?

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