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The Future of Tissue Engineering, or I'll Cook You A New Ass In My Easy Bake Oven

"The Thickness of Tissue Engineering: Biopolitics, Biotech, and the Regenerative Body"

"TE (tissue engineering) is . . . very much about an engagement and re-negotiation of the 'natural' as a historical and social concept with very real, material effects in its varied applications. It is in this sense that TE is involved in the medical, philosophical, and political production of what will be defined as a body by biomedical science. One of the basic issues with TE will be this re-negotiation of norms, the natural, and health, with respect to the biomedical body of the patient-subject. Another will be the implications for the traditional separation between the body and technology as separate and ontologically distinct categories."
—Eugene Thacker

I don't know about you, but I love these long-winded and extruciatingly earnest postmodern cultural critiques. They're like shooting smack: At first, it's weird and you don't understand anything that's going on around you. Then, you can't live without it.

Kids, this stuff is more fucked up than Naked Lunch.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_&_event/v003/3.3thacker.html

Posted by Kadrey at December 13, 2002 02:28 AM

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