tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post4731812041136807983..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Prosthetic Self-Determination and Polyculture In the Real WorldDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-4600688025113188602014-05-20T13:50:36.589-07:002014-05-20T13:50:36.589-07:00You are not wrong to say so. The "competitive...You are not wrong to say so. The "competitiveness" in the service of which "optimization" is always imagined and argued for always rationalizes plutocracy as (if) meritocracy "at home" and imperial/colonial exploitation as (if) progressive development "abroad" -- competition always naturalizes corporate-militarist norms and forms. And white racism (not to mention patriarchy) is always there at the heartless heart of corporate militarism, not only as a foundational history reverberating into those norms and forms but as an ongoing set of structural forces and unconscious biases enabling their maintenance. Of course the techno-transcendentalists will deny this -- but there would be no techno-fixation or techno-utopianism without a whole hell of a lot of bad faith and fetishisms roiling beneath the surface fueling its mania and denial.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-85508062155875673712014-05-20T12:41:00.139-07:002014-05-20T12:41:00.139-07:00Wherever I see "enhancement" I see just ...Wherever I see "enhancement" I see just the same old ways of self-centered, rich racist patriarchal heteronormative white males to impose their views on the rest of the world, smiting any divergent culture under their boot.<br /><br />Ol' Gernsback, inventor of the SF fandom and possibly Nerd(TM) subculture in general, already fantasized about fixing humanity before the transhumanuts were a twinkle in their parents' eyes. That his idea to "solve" racism by... building a skin-bleaching gadget/process to make blacks white materialized in the real world a Nazi doktors blinding KZ inmates by injecting blue dye into their eyes should say you something about the foundation and goals of the entire "enhancement" woo complex.<br /><br />Maybe in the future we will finally be able to "enhance" lazy, stupid Africans to get jobs and build an appropriate society with enough BigMacs to eat for everyone, skyscraper forests blotting out the sun and actual forests an hour driving away if we spritz them anti-heavy metal genes so their cancer-riddled don't litter the mountains of our electronics waste and implant direct neural interfaces streaming A&E into their skulls? HEIL FORTSCHRITTEsebianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352289295517890623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-87566232237398715812014-05-18T12:26:36.221-07:002014-05-18T12:26:36.221-07:00Uh, cool, thread hijack attempt notwithstanding. H...Uh, cool, thread hijack attempt notwithstanding. Have you graduated "Raymond" from being an opportunistically rancid homophobic troll to being a SpaceX promotional spambot or something?Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-38929573154714002912014-05-18T12:17:04.961-07:002014-05-18T12:17:04.961-07:00SpaceX Cargo Capsule Leaves Space Station For Home...SpaceX Cargo Capsule Leaves Space Station For Home<br />Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 18, 2014 @02:56PM <br />from the home-sweet-home dept.<br />An anonymous reader writes<br />"The commercial cargo ship Dragon left the International Space Station, and is heading home with nearly two tons of science experiments and old equipment. From the article: 'The unpiloted Dragon departed the International Space Station at 9:26 a.m. EDT to begin a trip expected to culminate just after 3 p.m. with a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles west of Baja California. NASA astronaut and station commander Steve Swanson controlled a 58-foot robotic arm that pulled the Dragon from its Harmony node port at 8 a.m., then released the capsule into space 266 miles over the ocean south of Australia.'"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05066456052187523974noreply@blogger.com