A few essays in addition to Guattari's suggest an associated ethics, although virtually none describe how to segue from an ethic of human individuality to a dynamic ethic of flux or ecology. Behaviors and events reflect an immanent dynamics, not a transcendent plan. The question is all the more insistent because of the fait accompli status so many of these writers accord to posthumanism. Donna Haraway's discussion of genetically engineered laboratory animals as trademarked corporate products, like DuPont's Oncomouse, embody a cyborgian revolution that has already occurred. But, literate in the reading and writing practices proper to the technical-mythic territories of the laboratory, we have little choice.
Science becomes ritual, and ritual is overwhelmingly aesthetic.
The more general merger between art and scholarly essay goes the same way. Notwithstanding the nostalgia of Barrado's fluffy black and whites, in the context of Incorporations these photos suggest the same question as much more controversial and high-tech media like virtual reality. People flow, climb, gaze, are carried along, pushed and pulled, by mysterious currents and monoliths of their own manufacture. Walter Benjamin's now formulaic warning about the fascistic dangers of aestheticizing politics has a particular urgency for media experimentation, where the always-potent combination of simulacra and desire joins a technocultural shift with massive capital support. A whole class, a whole interdisciplinary intellectual milieu has more and more reason to let be be finale of seem.