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    Biotechnology and the fear of Frankenstein by Courtney Campbell‚ Race‚ Gender‚ and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia by Dorothy E. Roberts‚ and Our Porsthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama‚ that the technological advances pushing us into a posthuman future are too dangerous and revolutionary‚ consequently‚ they need to be controlled in order to secure a better fate for humanity. An argument made by Francis Fukuyama in his book Our Posthumam Future‚ is that genetic engineering is becoming less

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    Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca portrays a discriminatory society in which status and quality of life is determined solely by a DNA profile. However‚ it is against this oppressive regime that Vincent Freeman shines‚ as Niccol conveys the importance of maintaining individuality – in those qualities which deem his protagonist unique. Throughout the film Niccol criticises those who conform and contribute to this‚ while simultaneously he praises those valids who do rebel in order to emphasise how pivotal it

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    Gattaca - Perfection “The Film Gattaca Presents a World Destroyed by the pursuit of our perfection. Discuss.” Andrew Niccol’s film Gattaca does present a world where the world has been destroyed by human’s pursuit of perfection. It is the characters in the movie which show this‚ Vincent‚ Jerome & Irene. These three characters illustrate a world to the viewer‚ a world were perfection means everything. It is this I intend to illustrate for you on how Andrew Niccol’s film shows us a world that has been

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    story of Vincent shows in Gattaca that there is possibility of beating the genetic engineering system. Vincent is one of the last naturally born babies born into a sterile‚ genetically enhanced world‚ where life expectancy and disease likelihood are ascertained at birth. Myopic and due to die at 30‚ he has no chance of a career in a society that now discriminates against your genes‚ instead of your gender‚ race or religion. Vincent an invalid‚ dreams of working within Gattaca and making it into space

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    Gattaca is a story about the not-so-distant future‚ a time when genetic engineering is so common place that it is common practice. The world‚ of course‚ has the draw back that anyone who was not genetically engineered is part of new class of society‚ called an invalid. Vincent Freeman was born this way. He chooses‚ however‚ not to remain and invalid‚ but become what is known as a de-generate‚ someone who uses other people’s blood‚ urine‚ hair‚ etc. to fake a genetic code superior to their own. He

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    (Ecclesiastes 7:13). Such is the opening quote and the thesis of director Andrew Nichol’s film Gattaca (1997). Although the film is based on the lives of genetically engineered human beings and the effects that such have on the "invalids"‚ that is those who are "God-children"‚ it deeply criticises the values of a society of "valids" through its satirical tone and the use of film noir techniques. Gattaca not only supports the belief that nature‚ despite its flaws‚ is preferable to a supposed error-free

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    Gattaca examines science‚ religion‚ genetic engineering and ethics. By opening the movie Gattaca with quotations from Willard Gaylin and Ecclesiastes‚ director Andrew Niccol invites us to ponder the tension between science and religion with regard to the ethics of genetic engineering. This tension is further sustained through the complex relationship of the main protagonists Vincent and Eugene‚ who must ultimately conquer their own physical limitations in order to find ``God’’. As the titles

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    In Braidotti’s The Posthuman‚ she offers a starter and main support to modern discussions on the posthuman. Old-fashioned differences have been blurred amongst the human and its others‚ revealing the non-naturalistic construction of the human. This novel evaluates the insinuations of these moves of viewpoints for official performs of the humanities. Braidotti’s The Posthuman places importance on a movement that is greatly misunderstood. Braidotti has traced a map of many different significations

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    GATTACA Director: Andrew Niccol Composer: Michael Nyman Actors: Ethan Hawke (Vincent/Jerome)‚ Jude Law (Eugene)‚ Uma Thurman (Irene) Genre: Science fiction Release date: 1997 The voice-over at the start of the film announces: “The most unremarkable of events. Jerome Morrow‚ navigator first class‚ is about to embark on a one-year manned-mission to Titan‚ the fourteenth moon of Saturn. A highly prestigious assignment. Although for Jerome‚ selection was virtually guaranteed at birth. He’s

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    Becoming Posthuman – Sport and Genetically Modified Athletes Becoming posthuman‚ there are many theories and explanations to explain this term‚ some of these include: posthumanism is a hypothetical future generation of beings whose basic capacities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer human by our current standards. Another definition of the term posthuman is that it is a person of unprecedented physical‚ intellectual and psychological capacity‚ self-programming‚ self

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