"Fills de Déu/Fills de la Ciència"

The film Gattaca shows us a science fiction world in which genetic engineering is a form of eugenics that divides the population between the so-called “Valids”, humans genetically engineered for maximum performance, and the “Children of God”, unmodified humans who are at the service of the Valids. From this scenario of division between humans and posthumans organized in hierarchies according to their physical potential, we will go through the history of eugenics and the discourses on race, its actualization in genetic engineering and photogrammetry techniques, the discourses of the cult of the body and the fetishism of the gene.

By  helen(a) torres
 

She is a sociologist, translator and professor of Art History and Critical Theory. Her work focuses on the articulations between language, arts and politics. She facilitates speculative fabulation workshops and seminars focused on the work of Donna Haraway, whose work she has translated most of her works and around whose proposals she has developed artistic and research projects.

She has published collective books, a novel and numerous articles. In the search for interactive narrative formats, she has developed geolocalized sound narratives.

She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art History at the University of Barcelona and teaches at CETT, Metàfora Studio Arts and CIEE. Her latest translations are Seamos como los hongos. El arte y las enseñanzas del micelio, by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez (Caja Negra, 2024) and La conexión infinita. A conversation between Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin (Continta Metienes, 2024).

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