Mundos y seres poshumanos en la literatura contemporánea. Sophie Dorothee von Werder
target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_782fd1c3-3603-5121-b9c7-caf8c702771a">30 “the dominant consciousness of an advanced technological capitalistic society clearly tends toward a utilitarian ethic, an ethic that permits other beings to be used-consumed” (p. 18).
31 “We are entering a new stage. For the first time, mankind is able to improve itself not only by ameliorating its cultural software but by altering its genetic hardware” (p. 8).
32 “In the future, we will likely to be able to breed human beings. [...] Breeding has not necessary connotation of state sponsorship, but it’s appropriately suggestive of genetic engineering’s deshumanizing potential” (p. 88; cursiva en el original).
33 “[it] sounds not ethically inclusive but disturbingly imperialist, as the world becomes only something to be colonized by our limitlessly possessive selves” (pp. 7-8).
34 “who is excluded within this definition and question whether the cyborg is a manifestly Western signifier, a First World marker of priviledge with whom only the 'information-rich' might identify” (p. 6).
35 “acknowledging that a fundamental kinship exists between people, and through which we effectively prove our humanity, may not be a bad thing. In fact, in a world currently being torn apart by religious and cultural differences, we may need this understanding more than ever” (p. 17).
36 “If ‘Man’ is present at ‘his’ own funeral, how could ‘he’ possibly be dead?” (p. 13).
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