Critical Art Ensemble (US), Beatriz da Costa (US)
Molecular Invasion

The current neo- and endocolonial initiatives by corporations attempting to consolidate the food chain and its markets from the molecular level on up presents anti-capitalist activists with a new biological front that requires a new set of tactical responses. Currently, activists are relying on traditional methods and means for slowing the corporate molecular invasion. While such activities are useful, they are also insufficient in and of themselves. Current radical practices, such as luddite oriented sabotage, seem to do more damage to the movement than to corporations. In our presentation, CAE will suggest new tactics and strategies that could be used to challenge corporate authority on the _molecular level_. CAE hopes to demonstrate that there is no place (physical, virtual, or molecular) that biotech corporations can act uncontested. By appropriating and reverse engineering corporate tools, resistant culture can effectively and efficiently fight the profit machine where ever it may reveal itself.

Publications

The Electronic Disturbance (Autonomedia, 1994)
Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpoular Ideas (Autonomedia, 1995)
Flesh Machine: Cyborgs, Designer Babies, and New Eugenic Consciousness (Autonomedia, 1997)

http://www.critical-art.net
http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/DRAM/44-4/pdf/cae_timeline.pdf


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