Re: <nettime> FW: [CSL]: Jeremy Rifkin: Dazzled by the science
Philip Galanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Benjamin Geer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:04:29 -0500
From: Philip Galanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: <nettime> FW: [CSL]: Jeremy Rifkin: Dazzled by the science
Rifkin must be using some kind of transgenic technique on
me...whenever he speaks I feel compelled to interject "Quack! Quack!
Quack!"
Philip
At 9:41 AM +0000 1/15/03, David Wood wrote:
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>From: J Armitage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 15 January 2003 07:57
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>Subject: [CSL]: Jeremy Rifkin: Dazzled by the science
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>Dazzled by the science
>Biologists who dress up hi-tech eugenics as a new art form are dangerously
>deluded
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From: Benjamin Geer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: <nettime> FW: [CSL]: Jeremy Rifkin: Dazzled by the science
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:18:07 +0000
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 9:41 am, David Wood wrote:
> [quoting Jeremy Rifkin's article]
>
> Art, historian Lewis Mumford reminds us, "is
> essentially an expression of love, in all of its many forms ... in contrast
> to technics, which is mainly concerned with the enlargement of human
> power".
The early days of modernism were full of art that celebrated the power of
technology. The Eiffel Tower was an early example of technology-as-art, and
the Futurists would have been delighted with genetic engineering. But
perhaps some of today's artists have forgotten what happened to that early,
giddy optimism about machines: it was crushed by the harsh realities of two
world wars. I hope a similar rude awakening about the dangers of genetic
engineering isn't in store for us.
Ben
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