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Cyberfeminism: An Art and Technology of Social Relations By subRosa
However, there was still hope for the student as a 'Non-reproductive Donor': she could sell her organs! It became apparent that within this global market, biotechnologies have different effects and place different values on different bodies in different locations . Students were horrified to learn that most of the texts were culled from actual web sites involved in the trade in human gametes, tissues, and organs. The next day, an interdisciplinary seminar examined the local and global impact of the 'revolution' in Advanced Reproductive Technologies and other bio-technologies. For example, on the Flesh Worth questionnaire, one link promising more information on advance contracts on organs actually linked to a website of an anthropologist at Berkeley devoted to critically addressing this issue; another link took them to a Glossalalia (subRosa Glossary of Sex and Gender in the Biotech Century). By combining performative texts that re-present and recontextualize - and sometimes slightly exaggerate - the strategies and logic of consumer marketing, with texts that are informative and critical, the reassurance of authorizing voice is removed and the participant/performer must think for h/erself. Click to proceed to The Virtual Commodity and Embodied Social Relations... << Return to Cyberfeminism Introduction subRosa anticopyright: |
