Joel Slayton
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Re:Transvergence 1 - Short Summary introduction - 2006/05/03 21:18
At question is what premises of responsibility are the appropriate tools for illuminating a discourse on extended body? One might argue that the social-political- ethical expectations that run parallel with research/development involving protological functions of biology are informed more by modernist sensibilities of science. That seems somewhat obvious in that the mechanisms of extended flesh are economically driven.
What I find interesting is the notion of ‘ontological device’, which I assume to mean the literal nature of the metaphysical systems (processes) that enable extended biology and not the artifacts themselves? If that is at least somewhat the case, and not dening the economic values of the artificats themeselves, what is the nature of the interacting elements that comprise these systems of production? How are we to consider them? For example, my understanding of in vitro cell production is that it can be grown from any source of cells including human although never part of a complete living organism. It would appear that notions of 'normalcy' have something to do with the ontolgoical device which in my mind is less cultural and more protological?
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