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Futurism
Futurists or futurologists are scientists and social scientists whose specialty is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.
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The Thirties had seen the first generation of American industrial designers; until the Thirties, all pencil sharpeners looked like pencil sharpeners¡ªyour basic Victorian mechanism, perhaps with a curlicue of decorative trim. After the advent of the designers, some pencil sharpeners looked as though they¡¯d been put together in wind tunnels. For the most part, the change was only skin-deep; under the streamlined chrome shell, you¡¯d find the same Victorian mechanism. Which made a certain kind of se
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An element of human invention transforms the natural into the cultural, rendering a higher life form an invention, an effect of the operation of biopower.
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― Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies. Systems. Technology.
― Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies. Systems. Technology.
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