[Nettime-bold] Re: DNA 'bomb'

[integer@www.god-emil.dk]

>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:05:40 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Faith Wilding <fwild+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>Subject: DNA bombs
>
>scott: 
>>> And of course all agricultural crops and animals
>> > >are 'GM' by virtue of selective breeding anyway.
>
>this is not correct really. Bioengineered genetic modification is quite
>different than selective breeding. For one thing it is much quicker. For
>another, you can recombine DNA from different species in a way you can't
>with hybridization and selective breeding. 
>
>Yesterday I had lunch at a new biotech venture firm which prides itself
>on not being venture capitalist but rather a venture catalyst--"where
>life and computing converge." They are making it possible for professors
>from universities which retain the rights to their faculties' research
>results to team up with entrepreneurs, doctors, and independent
>laboratories, in order to bring their inventions to market. Their main
>thrust is of course the altruistic one of "human healing." 


Their main thrust is of course the advancement of their careers 
subsidized by public funds stolen from the `rogue nations`
supposedly terrorizing the thieves.




>We have seen


who are "We" +?



>with "experts" or the "authorities."





>Let's keep the pressure up on
>theorizing and building critical practices around the biogenetic
>disturbance. Then trampling down some GM corn will soon seem like small
>(Monsanto) potatoes.


nettime and your body operate on the same principles as Monsanto.




>Faith Wilding 

your parents assigned name.



cmu.edu - korporat fascist amalgam subsidized by public funds 
          stolen from the `rogue nations` supposedly terrorizing the thieves +?







>Let's keep the pressure up on


let's keep the pressure on your personal neurons - perhaps actually advance this specie.










prev on nettime - [isnt memocide lovely]


>So my next question specific to this topic, is to ask; if all GM is not
>bad, 


gm isnt bad. gm is inefficient.
research indicates organic farming is most efficient.


would you like to purchase gm air +?


        nature is gratis.
        art isnt.


art = gm = kapitalism \ korporat fascism

i.e. artist = korporat fascist.


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