[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> DNA bombs against DNA

[Tiffany Lee Brown <magdalen@magdalen.com>]

one word:  ESCALATION.


or has everyone forgotten the Cold War already?




-tiffany



>  >I find it very interesting, that some so-called eco-warriors would
>think >that it's ok to release a genetically modified organism into the
>>environment; in order to combat genetically modified organisms! I
>didn't >know the problem with GM was that it wasn't *our* GM! I mean ...
>fuck, >what hypocrits.
>
>As one of the "hypocrits" who releases transgenic organisms mentioned in
>the Voice article, I find such commentary fairly naive. The totalizing
>ideas that all transgenic organisms are bad, or that "nature" must
>somehow remain pure are counterproductive to resistant work. Like
>software, robotics, transportation, or any other technology, wetware can
>also be inverted, subverted, and/or reverse engineered. Further, there
>are even cases where corporate developed trasgenic creatures can have
>positve effects (such as oil eating bacteria used in oil spill
>disasters--no eco-warriors protesting then). Biotech is here to stay (as
>are its accidents), and cultural and political activists have to design
>ways to use it for resistant purposes. Bio-luddism will only guarantee
>that the public (nonspecialists) is left out of biotechnological and
>ecological policy construction. Biotech initiatives have to be
>approached tactically on a case by case basis. Some are much worse than
>others (or more particularly, all transgenic creatures are not equally
>bad and dangerous--do some research). The point is to have public
>critical tools and direct action tools that can be focused on the worst
>elements of biotechnologies. As with most technology, the problem is not
>with the technology itself, but with the capitalist policies that guide
>the development and deployment of the technology.
>
>>As one person is quoted as saying "ethics, schmethics".
>
>This is taken slightly out of context. What Natalie Jeremijenko was
>referring to was that ethics is a generally useless discipline that
>exists within the context of and under the assumptions of capitalism.
>Resistant forces have to make considerations and accept levels of
>accountability that are outside of the capitalist context, and in this
>sense are beyond ethics.
>
>Critical Art Ensemble
>
>
><<The Village Voice Features The DNA Bomb by Erik Baard.url>>
>  http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0120/baard.shtml
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