movie reflections

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Your occasional reminder that the university is a corporation.

Your occasional reminder that the university is a corporation.

myths are reinterptreted in retellings patterns are re-patterned

Frankenstein should be less a myth of horror or hubris and more a myth of collective responsibility towards/with power/knowledge

Reading Frankenstein Otherwise Science is always patterned with power

(democratic would be nice)

Reading Frankenstein Otherwise Science is always patterned with power

(democratic would be nice)

This is another part of the CRISPR

power/knowledge pattern in a democracy

myths of science compound with

myths of modernity compound with national

myths

(American) sci-tech can be controlled to

precisely distinguish between good and bad, and eliminate the bad

Reading Frankenstein Otherwise: Mary Shelley had the foresight to create a myth of modernity as

“risk society”

Reading Frankenstein Otherwise New nature is potently ambiguous

New myths ain’t gonna just write themselves...

Beyond Frankenstein -- Even Read Otherwise -- What Myths Might Be in

Play?

Myth of Choice, Myth of Control, Myth of Progress, Myth of Democracy, Myth of the

Noble Nobelist…

“We’re about to fry the planet, but sure, we can get it together and be democratically responsible for making the right choices to

progress the Future of the Human Race…”

Reflexive modernization is an ever-complexifying

linkage between science, risk,

foresight (Prometheus), hindsight (Epimetheus),

and democratic processes, trying to refigure progress

The First Rule of Science Myth Club: The forces of capitalism are never part of the myth.

Nature (UK)

Science (USA)

Nature cannot be patented. New nature can be patented.

The Second Rule of Science Myth Club:

It’s always more complicated than you think

The First Rule of Science Myth Club: The forces of capitalism are never part of the myth.