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As every generation moves closer to living out the predictions of science fiction, humanity鈥檚 technological confidence belies a building tension鈥攖hat between mankind鈥檚 dependence on technology to socialize amid global outbreaks and the impending fear that artificial intelligence will give way to the machine uprising. With the very future of our species threatened by environmental disaster and depleting natural resources, it is no wonder we flock to the few venues within our control鈥攐ne-upping ourselves @online to no end, sending valentines, getting high, whoring out鈥攄imming the reminder we all still inhabit mortal bodies.
Over centuries, the Vitruvian image has manifested mankind鈥檚 ceaseless aspiration to perfect the human form. We have grown human embryos in labs using artificial wombs, extended life, cloned food, militarized national defenses, replaced the body鈥檚 hormones to transform its sex, et cetera鈥攖he technological imperative soon supplanting the very binary of men and women to that of man and the machine. The end of the individual, and the beginning of the immortal non-human. These modern alliances precede today鈥檚 date鈥攚ith droids guarding our bedside, awaiting to navigate as we dream an arm鈥檚 length from personal R2-D2s. Perhaps to our detriment, we believed the future would be so much cooler than it actually is (or was?).
The new face of war hails no religious right, but rather is soulless. Ever since charting stars and walking on moons, our bio-myths of the old ways鈥攐ur traditions and rituals of Earth鈥檚 indigeneity鈥攈ave been reliced by science, ever driving us to live on the brink of the future. Threatened and threatening, we face the new politics of identity鈥攑ostmodern, post-monogamous, post-gender, post-script, post-colonial, post-traumatic, post-depressive, post-apocalyptic and posting.
With what pronouns does the machine identify? What #inclusion for the LGBTQ+AI鈥攁 new color added to the rainbow, a new equality to legislate, a new autonomy without conditions? The definition of human is changing, just as the definition of life is changing. The change is symbiotic. No matter how fractured our species becomes, we are bound to the fate of our planet鈥攁nd to one another. Till the world ends, deep in the rave of Earth鈥檚 core, may we be reminded all is full of love, all stardust, all his children, all that Big Pharma money, all entangled, all interdependent, all threatened by the universal vulnerability of our species鈥� survival.
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As every generation moves closer to living out the predictions of science fiction, humanity鈥檚 technological confidence belies a building tension鈥攖hat between mankind鈥檚 dependence on technology to socialize amid global outbreaks and the impending fear that artificial intelligence will give way to the machine uprising. With the very future of our species threatened by environmental disaster and depleting natural resources, it is no wonder we flock to the few venues within our control鈥攐ne-upping ourselves @online to no end, sending valentines, getting high, whoring out鈥攄imming the reminder we all still inhabit mortal bodies.
Over centuries, the Vitruvian image has manifested mankind鈥檚 ceaseless aspiration to perfect the human form. We have grown human embryos in labs using artificial wombs, extended life, cloned food, militarized national defenses, replaced the body鈥檚 hormones to transform its sex, et cetera鈥攖he technological imperative soon supplanting the very binary of men and women to that of man and the machine. The end of the individual, and the beginning of the immortal non-human. These modern alliances precede today鈥檚 date鈥攚ith droids guarding our bedside, awaiting to navigate as we dream an arm鈥檚 length from personal R2-D2s. Perhaps to our detriment, we believed the future would be so much cooler than it actually is (or was?).
The new face of war hails no religious right, but rather is soulless. Ever since charting stars and walking on moons, our bio-myths of the old ways鈥攐ur traditions and rituals of Earth鈥檚 indigeneity鈥攈ave been reliced by science, ever driving us to live on the brink of the future. Threatened and threatening, we face the new politics of identity鈥攑ostmodern, post-monogamous, post-gender, post-script, post-colonial, post-traumatic, post-depressive, post-apocalyptic and posting.
With what pronouns does the machine identify? What #inclusion for the LGBTQ+AI鈥攁 new color added to the rainbow, a new equality to legislate, a new autonomy without conditions? The definition of human is changing, just as the definition of life is changing. The change is symbiotic. No matter how fractured our species becomes, we are bound to the fate of our planet鈥攁nd to one another. Till the world ends, deep in the rave of Earth鈥檚 core, may we be reminded all is full of love, all stardust, all his children, all that Big Pharma money, all entangled, all interdependent, all threatened by the universal vulnerability of our species鈥� survival.
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