Teaser Tuesday, war and body parts edition

This is a paraphrase instead of a quote, I’m afraid..

“What have they done to you? Lieutenant in His Majesty’s Armed Forces?!”
“I think they must have killed all the others off, sir.”

Hellfire, James Holland. Jack Tanner #4.

But when we socialise in disembodied ways online, even as biotech promises total mastery of the bodies we’re trying to leave behind, these efforts to abolish sex dimorphism in the name of the ‘human’ will end up abolishing what makes us human men and women, leaving something profoundly post-human in its place. In this vision, our bodies cease to be interdependent, sexed and sentient, and are instead re-imagined as a kind of Meat Lego, built of parts that can be reassembled at will. And this vision in turn legitimises a view of men and women alike as raw resource for commodification, by a market that wears women’s political interests as a skin suit but is ever more inimical to those interests in practice.

Feminism against Progress, Mary Harrington
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