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Scientists believe they have found a breakthrough treatment for acne. They claim that the drug, SMT D002, can reduce the flow of sebum - an oily substance produced by the skin and believed to be a significant cause - by 90 per cent.
I’m curious to hear other people’s opinions of this art project. Please click the link, read the full article and let me know your reaction before reading my initial reaction below.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
Finished reading the article? Below is my initial take on the whole thing.
Personally I am rather disturbed by the whole idea of the exhibit. It’s not what will be on display that disturbs me. For all I care an artist could make a display of aborted fetuses. It’s more the fact that the artist made the conception and abortion of these patches of cells with so little feeling or concern and it seems without a very specific purpose for doing so.
I’ve always been in favor of abortion rights. However, I have always been in favor of responsible abortion rights. Every abortion ends a potential human life. Do I think of it as murder? No I don’t. Do I think that it’s the same as removing a mole or other unwanted growth on your body? No. It’s somewhere between those two though.
Spending 9 months intentionally inseminating yourself and giving yourself abortions in the name of art seems like a lot of time in a morally questionable realm of action. I don’t condemn her for what she did, but I would really like to know exactly what sort of discussion she had hoped to spark with this performance. I’ve often heard the excuse for any questionable art that it was being done to spark discussion of a topic. Unless you are trying to spark discussion of an issue that isn’t well expressed it seems like a redundant and unnecessary act. If there is a particular message you are trying to make or a specific area you want to draw more attention to within the certain subject then you have good reason to try and bring attention to it. Otherwise what was the point. Abortion is a well discussed and very prominent issue in society. There is no need to spark a discussion on abortion, it’s already a raging bonfire. Unless you have something to actually say all you are doing is adding wood to the fire. Creating a discussion is not saying anything.
I’m curious to see how other people feel about this exhibit. I’m sure when it opens next week there will be a huge amount of media attention directed towards it.
Like the rise in cosmetic surgery, use of cognitive enhancers is likely to increase as bioethical and psychological concerns are overcome and as the products gain cultural acceptance.
In an informal survey Nature magazine discovered an interesting trend among scientists. The use of brain boosting drugs is more common than they expected. Of course this article is going to make a lot more people start looking at cognitive enhancers. So, who wants to be test subjects once they start actually focusing research into the creation of targeted drugs for neural enhancement.
Or maybe it would be more accurate to say goodbye. Yes, that’s right boys and girls its time again to play the Holy Shit Hollywood remake of the week.
This week Hollywood will rape a true classic that taught the world about the glamorous life of a computer hacker in the 1980s. Wargames.
Important lessons here. Used to be computer hackers had to have skills and put forth serious effort to nearly kill millions of people. Today all they have to do is play mumorpugers. So keep that in mind all you WoW players out there. One wrong click and you could possibly wipe out all of civilization.
Other than that we can see that where the original gave us a somewhat realistic view of the technology and behaviors of the era this new one has taken it’s cue from Hackers (the visually fun crapfest with a great soundtrack and Angelina Jolie) by showing something that more or less has no relation to an actual computer (other than a massive power drain due to all the fucking lights these Hollywood douche bags think come on every high tech piece of equipment these days) and calling it one.
In any case this one didn’t even garner a petition to get it on the big screen and thank goodness for that. These days it’s the small things we can be thankful for.
