In the genetic age, traditional issues of race, class, ideology are very much present. Given the University's commitment to social justice, Boston College is already a major center for ethical reflections on biotechnology and the future of genetic engineering. Their weekly journal claims a readership of some 2,500 readers in 25 countries around the world. Gender blinks its way into the floating space of android hermaphrodites, skin smoothes out into Flash flesh cut at the speed of syncopation, and the face itself floats away, not into an aesthetics of facialization, but into something more indeterminate, more tentative, more slippery in the codes. Technology is not simply gadgets, it is everything.
Technology is Western Civilization.
You don't have a choice.