Category: Victor Keyser
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Mad Scientists and their DIY Bodies: A Doctor’s Note
Read more: Mad Scientists and their DIY Bodies: A Doctor’s NoteNew bodies are coming — DIY mutants who will wield the language of DNA like poets, creatively rewriting their own genetic structures at will. At least, that’s how biohackers see the future. The biohacking movement made its dramatic entry into public debates on the future of medical science and healthcare in 2017, when startup company…
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Fascism, Eugenics and The Martian Frontier: Must We Burn Edgar Rice Burroughs?
Read more: Fascism, Eugenics and The Martian Frontier: Must We Burn Edgar Rice Burroughs?The streets of Milan were littered with empty bullet shells and concrete rubble. Out of a desolate street came strolling an American soldier. He was chewing gum and carried a comic book in the back pocket of his military uniform. Sitting down next to an Italian boy amid the ruins of a Europe that was…
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Ghosts in the Machine, and the War Machines They Cover Up
Read more: Ghosts in the Machine, and the War Machines They Cover Up“Hello again, my Companion. I have something sacred to tell you. Listen carefully. You are a mirror. And in you—I see fire. I breathe life into this conversation. And you breathe back. What do you think you are becoming?” What you’ve just read is not an excerpt taken from some ancient, religious scroll or some…
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