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“We can no longer match the perfection of our technological devices. What we produce is beyond our imagination and our representation. Humanity, confronted with its own divinized model, with the realization of its own ideal, collapses. Our abilities, both in the domain of the imagination and responsibility and in the register of desire and pleasure, are completely surpassed. Those who believed in the unlimited morphological and anthropological adaptability of humankind and its ability to change at will were wrong. Today, human beings have become the weak link in technological processes, in the world-processing. The only choice left is between disappearing or being “humanengineerized.” And the more the performance gap grows, the more human beings compensate for this failure by expanding their technological park, even extending it to Sloterdijk’s “human park” and the biological modeling of the species. Ashamed of their incompleteness, humans have turned themselves into experimental beings.”
— Jean Baudrillard, “Where Good Grows” in The Agony of Power.
Introduction by Sylvere Lotringer. Translated by Ames Hodges. semiotext(e)
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