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Bioethics | Genomics, genetics, and the problem of the commodity form

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The invisible hand. Credit: kybernetick.free Bioethics and capitalism NEW ‘GENETIC’ DISORDER LINKED TO POLITICAL ECONOMIC MYOPIA Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | June 16, 2014 This creative approach [seeks to] … capture the drama of DNA in genomic narratives that can be imagined and shared to illuminate our gaze on the people, the helices, and the future within. Karen H. Rothenberg and Lynn Wein Bush, The Drama of DNA: Narrative Genomics (2014) Of course I am using irony and hyperbole in the subhead for political economic myopia as a genetic disease. But that really is not much different from the discursive strategies used to construct genomic narratives over the past quarter century, with the presumption usually being that these “illuminate” things like “the future within”. There is little evidence to suggest that scientists may harbor a gene mutation that expresses as an inability to understand capitalism as a social construct. There is no known genetic basis that can explain what l...

Enacting post-capitalism | Series | 1

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How do we make sure it does not reboot?  Photo Credit: Anticap . Moderator’s Note:  Most of us are aware that the recently  uncovered  Heartbleed virus has compromised the security of the OpenSSL cryptographic software used to program security for large interactive databases and user-site interfaces. My updated browser and blogging software verifies if the URL is trusted before I set the hypertext links, but not all sites have resolved this problem.  Before setting a hypertext link (like this one) in any posting, the software I use first verifies the site delivering the .pdf or html view can be trusted. I cannot, of course, guarantee that subsequent viral attacks will make these sites unsafe again, but I can promise to always make an earnest effort to verify the site can be trusted before I set a link. Readers and followers who do not trust this procedure are advised not to click on the hypertext links. Revolutions happen NOTES ON THE CRISIS OF NEOLIBERALISM ...