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Halfway through “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess,” one may indulge the urge to turn to the Internet to help explain Andrei Codrescu’s looping chain of definitions, anecdotes, and exaggerated statements about the world. The entries that compose Codrescu’s “guide” are thick with allusions to forgotten female poets and obscure psychedelic rock bands. It’s hard to read them without wanting to know more, especially with little prior knowledge of Codrescu’s main focus: the 1920s...
...have no common values. Nor is there any kind of organizing intelligence to make sense or order of the masses. The pace of the village is that of a bullock cart, or a folk song; the rhythm of the city is that of an MTV video, broken up, superaccelerated, posthuman. If it takes a village to raise a child, as Hillary Clinton has said, it takes a city to corrupt...
That could be just a fogey's rant, mooning about the old days and ways. Viewers who resist the coming posthuman form of filmmaking may be as obsolete as the movies they loved. Get used to it, people: these new techniques will weave our deepest dreams into a cinematic coat of many colors. Thing is, it'll be worn by a cyborg...
...architect, given to panoramic pronouncements on modernity ("If space junk is the human debris that litters the universe, junk space is the residue mankind leaves on the planet"). His highest goal is to restore possibilities for human interaction of whatever kind. Congestion and sprawl he sees as advantages. The posthuman megalopolises of the 21st century--Tokyo, Atlanta, Shanghai--are just so many jumbo opportunities. On the other hand, he is sick to death of skyscrapers, which he considers vertical cylinders that isolate people instead of putting them into circulation with one another. "It's hypocritical for anyone to argue that...
...worked in academia such as Fineberg support open publication of research, some academics remain skittish. Moreover, the most serious threat to open scientific research comes not from the politicos in the White House but from the academics whose intellectual strafing allows restrictions to advance. In his new book Our Posthuman Future, political scientist Francis Fukuyama—who is also a member of the influential President’s Council on Bioethics—makes the case for regulating the manipulation of human genes and the widespread prescription of psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac. His principle arguments against...