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further impact on the perception of the body and its evolution in the future. Doing so, doesn't art helps to fulfil the neo-liberal wish to create a cyborg world in the worst sense of the word?

 

JS: As Haraway suggests in relation to transgenics, what we have to keep in mind is that we might have been «other» and we might also turn into «another species» in the future. I personally think that artists are in a great position to comment on the problematic ethics and social implications of body-transformation by scientific research.