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"Flesh-Eating Technologies" : [agenda/biographies]
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1997 (Creation)
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0.5 cm of textual records
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File consists of three copies of the agenda for the conference. The conference description is as follows:
"As we round the bend towards the millennium, there is a widespread sense that it’s too late- for just about anything. On this threshold of despair, a strange ecstasy has appeared, emerging in all forms of popular culture. We gasp for breathable air, giddy with irrational glee in the grip of high-tech culture, while the fringes of science take root in mainstream culture.
Flesh Eating Technologies was a two-day seminar that explored this ecstasy. It featured debates about the future and limits of science, the outer edges of rationalism, viral capitalism, the technological spin-offs of science (including artificial life/death); robotics; leaky experiments; and the crazy organization of knowledge about the human body (in morgues, slaughterhouses, embalming procedures, grafting procedures).
Crazy science leads to barbarism and hyper-technology, pitting bran-stem impulsiveness against excessive cerebral activity. In this battle, humour and anxiety can’t help but surface, becoming manifest in alien invasions, cannibalism, vampirism, survivalism, self-extermination, nature and nanotechnologies, viral economies, war games, technologies of violence, delirium, and compulsion. Flesh devours technology and technology takes over flesh."