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goalhofer · 4 months ago

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Archery

Kirstine Danstrup-Andersen (Copenhagen)

Athletics

Simon Hansen (Herning)

Ida Karstoft (Lemvig)

Lisa Pedersen (Copenhagen)

Katrine Koch-Jacobsen (Ballerup)

Badminton

Viktor Axelsen (Odense)

Anders Antonsen (Aarhus)

Kimmo Astrup-Sørensen (Copenhagen)

Anders Skaarup-Rasmussen (Copenhagen)

Mathias Christiansen (Copenhagen)

Mia Blichfeldt (Solrød Strand)

Maiken Fruergaard-Sørensen (Hvidovre)

Sara Thygesen (Frederiksberg)

Alexandra Bøje (Copenhagen)

Boxing

Nikolai Terteryan (Vejle)

Canoeing

Lasse Madsen (Solrød Kommune)

Victor Aasmul (Rudersdal Kommune)

Morten Gravesen (Copenhagen)

Magnus Sibbersen (Hvidovre)

René Holten-Poulsen (Sakskøbing)

Frederikke Hauge-Matthiesen (Høje-Taalstrup Kommune)

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Cycling

Mikkel Norsgaard-Bjerg (Copenhagen)

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Nicolai Højgaard (Aarhus)

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Andrea Schmidt (Aarhus)

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Shooting

Jesper Hansen (Bjegsted)

Rikke Mæng-Ibsen (Herning)

Stephanie Scurrah-Grundsøe (Roskilde)

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Viktor Solmunde (Copenhagen)

Swimming

Thea Blomsterberg (Birkerød)

Martine Damborg (Kastrup)

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Schastine Tabor (Copenhagen)

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Helena Rosendahl-Bach (Holstebro)

Signe Bro (Copenhagen)

Table tennis

Anders Lind (Hørsholm)

Martin Buch-Andersen (Rudersdal Kommune)

Jonathan Kjaer-Groth (Albertslund)

Taekwondo

Edi Hrnic (Brøndby Kommune)

Tennis

Clara Tauson (Kongens Lyngby)

Caroline Wozniacki-Lee (Miami-Dade County, Florida)

Triathlon

Emil Holm (Frederiksberg)

Alberte Kjær-Pedersen (Aarhus)

Wrestling

Turpal-Ali Bisultanov (Copenhagen)

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hccthaimunx · 2 years ago

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Daniel Elsberg and his SEVERAL moves

THERE HAS BEEN A LEAK:

Pentagon Papers: The Secrets of War

By Daniel Elsberg, Military Analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense.

During their military campaign in Vietnam, the US military or specifically the air force used large amounts of bombs which caused massive collateral damage to both military and civilian targets. The air force’s excessive use of aerial bombardments as a tactic for deterring hostile forces caused heavy amounts of damage to Vietnam’s infrastructure and could potentially cause years of instability in the region.

The US military and the air force pushed the 1925 Geneva protocol to its limits as large amounts of agent orange were dropped onto Vietnam. The agent orange compound itself didn’t violate any protocols as it was technically an agricultural product. However, their excessive use in the war caused massive amounts of environmental damage to Vietnam and it could potentially take years before the Vietnamese environment could recover from the effects of this compound. Agent orange also had profound effects on the health of both South and North Vietnamese citizens, specifically farmers as they had been exposed to the compound the most. The US military’s act in the Vietnam war could be considered as chemical warfare, which violates the 1925 Geneva Protocol.

The United Kingdom’s involvement in the war also caused further damage to the infrastructure and environment of Vietnam as their massive aerial bombardment campaign and their heavy use of highly flammable napalm bombs caused the destruction of many Vietnamese jungles. It could take years before these jungles could grow back, thus ruining Vietnam’s agricultural industry.

The war heavily affected rice production in Vietnam since aerial bombardments by the U.S. air force and the R.A.F. destroyed many rice fields in Vietnam. This could potentially cause a famine if food aid is not provided.

The U.S. government was responsible for assassinating high-profile targets such as Ho Chi Minh and performing espionage in North Vietnam, China, and North Korea.

The casualties of war were kept secret from the public by the U.S. government. By 1968, around 30,000 troops from the ARVN had died, and the US lost around 17,000 troops. However, over 200,000 North Vietnamese troops had died, along with many more unconfirmed civilian and military personnel deaths.

Published to the New York Times: February 10th, 1968.

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bwansen · 8 years ago

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donospl · 3 years ago

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Literackie Biuro Podróży [sezon 3 odc.13]

POWIEŚCI W audycji: Marc Elsberg „Sprawa Prezydenta” Wyd. W.A.B. Jeffrey Archer “Ukryte na widoku” Dom Wydawniczy Rebis Fannie Flagg „Powrót do Whistle Stop” Wyd. Literackie Daniel Wyszogrodzki „Plac Leńskiego” Wyd. Marginesy PRZERYWNIK MUZYCZNY: “„My Melancholy Baby” – Miki Yamanaka z albumu „Stairway to the Stars”wydanego przez Outside in Music Jaroslav Rudis „Ostatnia podróż…

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#Daniel Wyszogrodzki #Dom Wydawniczy Rebis #Fannie Flagg #Jaroslav Rudis #Jarosław Maślanek #Jeffrey Archer #Literackie Biuro Podróży #Marc Elsberg #Miki Yamanaka #Outside in Music #PIW #Tove Ditlevsen #Wydawnictwo Czarne #Wydawnictwo Książkowe Klimaty #Wydawnictwo Literackie #Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

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rolandoga · 3 years ago

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DECIMA x OFFF2022 from GMUNK on Vimeo.

DECIMA is a short film exploring themes of mortality, transmigration, empowerment, soul passage and illumination. Produced for the legendary design conference OFFF Barcelona, who granted GMUNK the opportunity to craft their 20th anniversary title sequence with the highest honor.

The film ultimately focuses on the human condition nested within the control of a cult of robotic shamans called The Vi, and examines the deep emotional connection to loss and rebirth.

GMUNK VTPRODESIGN PSYOP BEN LUKAS BOYSEN FILIPE CARVALHO SHIMMERKID

Starring Nana Ghana and Jagger Hunt.

Production

Director: GMUNK Screenplay: Shimmerkid Story: Bradley G Munkowitz Production Company: JOJX Production Company: Commandeer Exec Producer: Lars Ruch Producer: Micah Ross Prod Supervisor: Conor Bailey 1st AD: Ryan Lippert 2nd AD: Patrick Gorman Director of Photography: Isaac Bauman 2nd Unit DoP: Adrien Oniega Ronin Tech: Andrew Brinkhaus 1st AC: Payam Yazdandoost 2nd AC: Alan Certeza DIT: Jack Schaefer Decima: Nana Ghana Eidolon: Jagger Hunt Wardrobe Stylist: Michelle Martini Stylist Asst: Stephanie Porter Make-Up Artist: Allyson Joiner Hair Stylist: Bianca Harris Art Director: Arne Knudsen Leadman: Steve Tobler Production Design: VTProDesign Robotics Studio: VTProDesign Executive Creative Director: Michael Fullman Executive Producer: Paul Elsberg Director of Creative Technology: Matt Wachter Robotic and Animation Lead: Jordan Ariel Robotics Design and Animation: Hailey Mendoza Designer: Tyler Lampe Art Director: Anass Benhachmi Laser Operator: Derek Abbot Senior Creative Technologist: Dom Ricci Fabrication Lead: Jim Shawhan Motorized Precision Director: Sean Brown Motorized Precision: Shepherd Duff Motorized Precision: Brian Davidson Key Grip: Adam Kolegas BB Grip: Daniel Tucker Grip: Casey Slade Grip: Mike Gray Grip: Izzy Ernst Grip (Pre): Johnathan Gonzalez Gaffer: Paul Monroe BB Electric: Taylor Freeland Electric: Connor Burns Electric (Pre): Theo Hyppolitte Electric (Shoot): Nick Riportella Stills: James Heredia BTS: Aaron Marcellino BTS: Andrew Curtis BTS: Scott Middow Sound Mixer: Houston Guy Medic: Michael Smith SFX Rigger: Pat Romano PA Office: Olivia Tripp PA Truck: Tristan Copeland PA Set: Colby American

Post Production

Editor: Matt Berardi Composer: Ben Lukas Boysen Sound Design: Jochen Mader Post-Production Studio: Psyop Berlin Executive Producer: Justin Stiebel Creative Director: Stefan Susemihl Lead Compositor: Stefan Susemihl 3D Artist: Thomas Sali 2D Compositor: Thomas Sali 2D Compositor: Florian Dehmel Hologram Designer: Peter Clark Concept Art: Toros Kose Concept Art: Nicolas Lopardo Colorist: James Bamford Titles Typography: Felipe Carvalho Titles Animation: João Vaz Oliveira Producer: Jodi Kraushar Producer: Matthias Bauerle

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p3p510 · 3 years ago

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DECIMA x OFFF2022 from GMUNK on Vimeo.

The film ultimately focuses on the human condition nested within the control of a cult of robotic shamans called The Vi, and examines the deep emotional connection to loss and rebirth.

GMUNK VTPRODESIGN PSYOP BEN LUKAS BOYSEN FILIPE CARVALHO SHIMMERKID

Starring Nana Ghana and Jagger Hunt.

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bellaspadiva · 5 years ago

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Q and A for 3 films screened at @ghosttownarts @galleryoffthesquare @ideationstation in #downtownshermantx #shermantx #culturalartsdistrict #culturalarts #filmakers Daniel Montoya and his film "Him" Liz Elsberg and her film #Mix Tape, @pantoneliz and Jared Tredway and his film Receptivity. @jaredtredway (at Ghost Town Arts Collective) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1S2iNdAvD8/?igshid=16c2oqrc3fbnl

#downtownshermantx #shermantx #culturalartsdistrict #culturalarts #filmakers #mix

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stephenjaymorrisblog · 6 years ago

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The Past, the Future, and Nothing in Between

By Stephen Jay Morris

May 21, 2019

©Scientific Morality

It was either 1974 or 1975, I forget. The Peace and Freedom Party was having their State meeting in Isla Vista, California. I caught a ride with Bill M., treasurer of the L.A. County Peace and Freedom Party. It would be a 150-mile ride to the site. Bill had a mustard color, 1958 Studebaker station wagon. Including me, there was a total of five passengers. I sat in the back seat on the left side, next to the widow. This really old decrepit white guy, with pale blue eyes, sat to my right. I would render a guess he was in his early 80’s; he was as wrinkled as a discarded prune. The skin beneath his chin hung like that of a chicken. What remained of his hair was a thin tuft of gray strands he’d combed over his bald spot.

At the point we got onto the Hollywood Freeway, he turned his head and flashed me a reptilian smile. In a quivering voice he said, “Would you look at that hair!? (Mine was shoulder length back then.) It’s a good thing we weren’t cellmates! We would be sharing the same bunk every night!”

Then it started. For the next hour and a half, this old man proceeded to give me a history lesson. I managed to ask my first question, “Oh? Did you serve time?”

“Son? My police record is longer than your hair! I was arrested in 1921 for “Failure to Disperse.” That was my first. Spent the night in the local pokey in some hick town in the South. My factory had a wildcat strike and the cops didn’t like me too much. I was the organizer for The IWW.”

I was taken aback! “You mean the Industrial Workers of the World? You were a Wobblie?”

He chuckled and said, “As sure as you are looking at me!”

It was the most interesting ride I have ever had! You know something? I never got his name.

His last statement to me was, “I guess you have better things to do than listen to an old man babble on for hours.” I wish he’d talked another hour.

So what is my point? Since I first became acquainted with my grandfather Lewis, I’ve continually found elderly people to be fascinating. The curse of ageism is part of this country’s national fabric and considered humorous. Gerontophobia looms large in the USA, where you are either too old or too young. My point is that old people are not your problem, they are your salvation. Okay, perhaps salvation is too strong of a word. Maybe “valued resource” is better. Not only by talking to an old person, but through respecting them as well.

This whole Trump soap opera reminds me of the Nixon days of the early 70’s. We were obsessed with “Tricky Dick.” Historically, a Trotskyite and a Maoist hated each other, but if you mentioned Dick Nixon, the Trots and Mickey Maoists took turns bashing him! Everybody on the Left, or even in the Center, hated Nixon. I had always thought that Nixon was the worst president ever—until now.

American history has a tendency to repeat itself. On August 6, 1974, Nixon resigned. Until then, the Nixon administration seemed to go on and on and on, adnausean. The impeachment process in the USA is as slow as molasses. It could have gone on into the Bicentennial, 1976.

On April 30, 1975, the Vietcong captured Saigon and the war was over. Until then, it seemed like the war would never stop! By 1974, the Anti-War movement became anemic. I went to a protest at Exposition Park in Los Angeles; there were 250 people in attendance. You’d think Joan Baez would have drawn a huge crowd! Also, the main speaker was Daniel Elsberg, of “The Pentagon Papers.” Ultimately, that day turned out to be a big relief and we all exhaled with a major closure.

However, American Imperialism would find another land to invade.

The Watergate scandal seemed endless. Everyday there surfaced another piece of the puzzle. Nixon called the Watergate investigation a “Witch hunt.” Sound familiar?

My whole point is, this Trump regime will eventually end and there will be another to replace it. Some milquetoast, tepid centrist will take on the role for eight years, and then another right wing fuck will replace him. It is the pattern of American politics and always will be. The only way things will change is by revolution. What type of revolution?

That is up to you.

#millennials #baby boomers #left wing #poets on tumblr #stephenjaymorris #politics #usa

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makingscipub · 6 years ago

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CRISPR culture

CRISPR is a way of changing and replacing parts of DNA using enzymes like a pair of molecular scissors (of course things are more complex than this!). This new technology for ‘editing’ DNA, genes or genomes began to attract public attention between around 2012 and 2015. When I started to write about metaphors used to make CRISPR public (for example, here and here and here), in around 2015/16, I was surprised by how little resonance CRISPR and gene editing seemed to have in wider culture (which was, one has to admit, just then engulfed by other major preoccupations). This was, I thought, quite different compared to what happened during the emergence of, say, cloning or nanobiotechnology, which caused something of a cultural ‘effervescence’ after 1997 and after about 2003 respectively, with lots of stories and images circulating widely.

CRISPR novels

Things seem to be changing now. To see what’s going on, the first thing I did was google. I searched for ‘CRISPR novels’ and got this (11 March):

I was somewhat surprised, as I had not regarded A Crack in Creation (Doudna and Sternberg, 2017) as a novel, despite the use of some fictional characters, such as unicorns. And Modern Prometheus (Kozubek, 2016) was not a novel by Mary Shelley. These two books are written by scientists/science writers not novelists. They deal with reality, not fiction and I have written about them here and here.

I then searched for ‘CRISPR scifi’. That proved more fruitful. I found a very useful webpage on CRISPR in movies and on TV. I’ll come back to movies in a minute. I also asked on Twitter whether people knew of some CRISPR inspired novels. At first, people were a bit stumped, but then I got a few hints.

There seems to be one real CRISPR thriller, namely Change Agent, by Daniel Suarez (2017). As one preview said: “It’s a sci-fi thriller about a topic few non-nerds would normally consider thrilling: Crispr (short for ‘clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats’).” It engages with the science, summarised on the first few pages, as well as with upcoming ethical dilemmas, also flagged up, in a relatively unsubtle way, on the first few pages. Here goes:

We are introduced to a couple trying to produce a genome edited child. They talk to a counsellor: “The husband again placed his hand on her knee. She shook her head. ‘It seems against Nature.’ The counselor spoke softly. ‘This is the very same process Nature follows to eliminate viral DANA in bacteria. The same process used under the UN’s Treaty on Genetic modification.’ ‘Yes, but to cure deadly genetic defects, not to tailor-make a child.’ The husband shook his head. ‘We are not tailoring our child. We are correcting genetic weaknesses. Is not a weak memory fatal to a future doctor or attorney?’ ‘Where does this sort of thinking lead us, Neelo – eugenics?'” And so on…

Other novels mentioned by my Twitter correspondents were: Helix by Marc Elsberg and Intrusion by Ken MacLeod. There are probably more out there. Netflix is currently looking into turning Change Agent into a movie.

CRISPR movies

Many movies have dealt with genetic engineering, and some are listed on the webpage I mentioned above, such as GATTACA, of course. However, it seems that only one movie so far has taken up the CRISPR challenge directly, and this is Rampage (2018), directed by Bad Peyton. There is also a TV Show Luke Cage (2016-present), which engages with CRISPR and, the, perhaps better-known, series Orphan Black (2013-2017).

Many of these movies and series pose thought-provoking questions about human nature and personhood. However, there is also the temptation of using facile ‘TV tropes’, one of which is called, by some observers, ‘LEGO genetics’: “With LEGO Genetics, you can fiddle with DNA wherever you like, intentionally or accidentally, and all the cells will change overnight (if that). Just wake up and presto! Wings! Fur! Gills! Hulking muscles! Giant brain! Stem cells! You don’t even have to eat the equivalent of your entire body mass to create all those new body parts; the old cells and the new ones are just cobbled together like LEGO bricks.”

Audiences, players, consumers etc. will probably be well aware of such tropes and know how to deal with them; and if they are not, there are fictional characters that tell them how to. For instance, Prokhor Zakharov, a character in a computer game, says: “”Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can’t, for example, insert ‘the genes for an elephant’s trunk’ into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk. There are no genes for trunks. What you can do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals. For instance, we can in theory splice the native plants’ talent for nitrogen fixation into a terran plant.”

Before exploring documentaries, where one would expect such lessons, I have to mention, of course, Captain Marvel – with her marvellous superpowers… Here is a great blog post about Marvel and CRISPR. I only quote one paragraph: “Films about the Marvel universe are all the rage right now, showing off characters with truly amazing abilities that humans can only dream of having. The introduction of the CRISPR gene editing technology has left people wondering if they could gain ‘superhuman’ powers. From a scientific standpoint, CRISPR researchers have made it quite clear that the scientific community does not support creating humans with enhanced abilities. ‘The talk about designer babies is ultimately a big distraction,’ says Carl Zimmer, science journalist and award-winning New York Times columnist.”

Well said! We all welcome debate, but the debate should at least be well-informed. Can documentaries provide that information?

CRISPR documentaries

A feature documentary about CRISPR was released on 10 March called “Human Nature”, and other documentaries are in production. Grant Jacobs wrote a quick blog post about it and points out that: “The film features a star cast of scientists working on genome editing. Alongside them are experts representing law, bioethics, environmental and commercial interests. The listed cast includes Jill Banfield, David Baltimore, Rodolphe Barrangou, Alta Charo, George Church, Jennifer Doudna, Antonio Regalado, Fyodor Urnov, Luhan Yang, and Feng Zhang. (If I had a criticism, it’d be that the cast is very USA-oriented, but then it’s produced in the USA.)”.

Watch the trailer! I haven’t seen the documentary, but some say it strikes a good balance: “It’s hopeful about CRISPR’s ability to help us fix diseases that have plagued humans for millennia, while also questioning if we’re ready to make genetic changes that’ll affect us for generations to come.”

One of the more gang-ho voices heard in the documentary is George Church. If you want to know more about his views, you can look at this interesting piece entitled “Five conversations with biology’s Captain Marvel, George Church”! The subtitle of the article brings us back to LEGO genetics: “When it comes to tinkering with the stuff of life, George Church is the equivalent of a Lego master builder.”

CRISPR and popular science writing

Nessa Carey has just published a popular science book that brings the CRISPR story up to date (after Modern Prometheus, 2016, and Crack in Creation, 2017). She uses more conventional metaphors in her book title: Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures (2019). Having just read the book, I can say that Carey uses the hacking metaphor really creatively in the book to draw readers in and hook them. If you want to be well-informed and ready to debate CRISPR knowledgeably, this book is a great start.

Of course, popular science writing doesn’t only happen in books. Au contraire! One should also look at newspapers, podcasts, blogs, journals, twitter and more! …

CRISPR art

And finally, there is also CRISPR inspired bio-art, some of which has been surveyed in this blog post under the title “Who is afraid of CRISPR art?”. There is an article in Nature entitled: “Love, death and CRISPR: An artwork”. There is also an artwork that I actually saw, by Anna Dumitriu, and an article on CRISPR art I couldn’t see in The Crispr Journal. I bet there is more….

CRISPR the board game

And, before I forget, there is even a board game based on CRISPR on the horizon! “Players are members of a team whose missions entail delivering specific CRISPR-edited products to users. To succeed, players must: solve puzzles; communicate about their work to indispensible [sic] support professionals and the public; overcome obstacles; foil would-be underminers; and recover from setbacks. See more detailed game features here.”

Cultural horizons

Discussions about CRISPR, like discussions about cloning or stem cells for example, happen against a well-established cultural horizon. When studying the issue of ‘designer’ or ‘donor’ babies in the year 2000, I called this ‘cultural precognition.

I pointed out that new developments in genetics throw up fresh ethical questions almost every day. Doctors, scientists, policy makers, the media and the public are ill-equipped to find answers to these questions on scientific, legal or moral principles alone. They therefore often take recourse to metaphors and narratives to fill this ethical void. Popular culture talks about space-rockets before there are space-rockets, clones before there are clones and artificially created babies before there are artificially created babies. When scientists do anything new, there is often a ready-made public perception of how good or how bad it is going to be, derived from social, linguistic, literary and cultural preconceptions.

So, when genetically edited or ‘crispred’ babies happened (if indeed they did), I was not surprised to find the following observation about popular culture in the context of Rampage, Change Agent etc: “A scientist in China has dominated headlines this week with the claim that his research team has successfully created the world’s first genetically-edited babies. If true, the experiment raises a lot of difficult ethical questions—ones that mainstream films and TV shows have been exploring for decades. The topic of genetic engineering is so prevalent in pop culture that it’s practically a genre unto itself. At the heart of these science fiction depictions is the issue of whether the benefits of genetic engineering—that is, potentially curing diseases—outweigh the colossal risks, which range from eugenics to unintended mutations.”

A sub-genre of the genetic engineering genre is ‘biopunk’, to which some of the CRISPR movies and novels belong. I bet there will be more biopunk in the future. Another cultural tradition that holds a mirror to science and society and there to be explored.

Keeping an eye on CRISPR culture

Future work on the language and culture of gene editing should chart changes and shifts in social and cultural perceptions of genome editing over the last two decades or so from around 1998 (Dolly, BSE, GM, stem cells etc.) to now. Such a diachronic analysis could be based on comparing two books, published twenty years apart.

In 1998 José van Dijck published a book entitled Imagenation: Popular images of genetics, in which she explored the crucial role that cultural images played in the popularisation of genetic knowledge, especially cloning.

In 2017 Everett Hamner published a book entitled Editing the Soul, in which he stresses that we need to pay attention to the “cultural mythologies” by which we frame our public debates about genome editing. The stories we tell are shaped by science and culture alike, including the metaphors created by scientists themselves: “We should consider carefully how these mutual narratives double back and colonize the research and applications that find private and public financing.”

Science always happens against an established cultural horizon, but it also feeds into and transforms it. This then also changes social and ethical perceptions and actions. If ever we manage to establish something like a ‘global observatory for gene editing’ (a rather ambitious project!), this needs to include the observation of cultural developments! Only then can we grapple with ‘public engagement’ in a well-informed way.

Acknowledgement: I’d like to thank the second referee of an article for making me dig deeper into the cultural ramifications of CRISPR!

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tdshay · 6 years ago

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Wikileaks didn't steal of hack anything. They received emails from a whistle blower just like the NY Times did with Daniel Elsberg's Pentagon Papers. Wikilieaks is a publisher. Today we have total surveillance of public and complete privacy for government.

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citizentruth-blog · 6 years ago

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New Watergate Documentary Has Parallels With Donald Trump - CULTURE

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New Watergate Documentary Has Parallels With Donald Trump

Several movie reviews are already calling attention to a new Watergate documentary for its parallels between Richard Nixon and current president Donald Trump, although the film never mentions Trump.

Political scandal and an “out of control” president are at the center of a new Watergate documentary and it’s not about Trump — although its parallels are clear.

Watergate premiered in select theaters on October 12, focusing on former president Richard Nixon and the infamous scandal involving abuses of power and obstruction of justice, which led to his resignation in 1974.

With a running time of over four hours, Oscar-winning director Charles Ferguson (Inside Job) has plenty of time to delve into the subject.

There are interviews with several key Watergate figures to provide a thorough glimpse into Richard Nixon’s flawed psyche.

Included in the documentary are reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, Dan Rather, Nixon White House aides John Dean and Pat Buchanan, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Elsberg, the late John McCain, and former members of the Senate Watergate Committee, such as Lowell Weicker.

Along with archival footage, the film also employs reenactments: Tony-award winning British actor Douglas Hodge portrays Nixon, depicting scenes such as taped Oval Office meetings of the former president.

Several reviews are already calling out the documentary’s parallels between Richard Nixon and current president Donald Trump, although the film never mentions Trump.

The opening credits include a full title card that reads: “Watergate: Or How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President.”

The film also addresses the subject of Nixon blaming the media when he lost the election to John F. Kennedy, and calling for investigations into his enemies.

Director Ferguson (who also narrates the film) reportedly closes the film with a heavily implied reminder that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Indeed, the director revealed in his press notes that he began this documentary four years ago as “a historical detective story,” only to recognize that the issues within were “urgently relevant.”

Ferguson’s previous documentaries addressed the Iraq War (No End in Sight) and the 2008 financial crisis (Inside Job), which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Watergate will play in New York and Los Angeles beginning Oct. 12 and Oct. 19, respectively, before premiering on History Channel on Nov. 2.

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Whistleblower Exhibition Exposes Surveillance Age Vigilantes

Whistleblowers and hackers often earn scorn from governments and media outlets, but a new exhibition on these rogues of the information age hopes to restore balance to the debate. Now on at Kunsthall Charlottenborg in Denmark, Whistleblowers & Vigilantes showcases multimedia work about whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden. Alongside these works are pieces about Anonymous, a recreation of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's Montana cabin, printed selections from his manifesto, as well as installations by artists and collectives DIS, Etoy, Omer Fast, Peng! Collective, Metahaven, and more.

Peng! Collective's Call-A-Spy installation greets visitors, letting them call agents from various countries' spy services. In the main exhibition space sits Lutz Dammeck's recreation of Kaczynski's cabin. On a wall behind it are selections of the Unabomber's manifesto, a 35,000-word neo-Luddite essay on the perils of technological innovation and its systems of control—which, 22 years later seems more prophetic than ever.

Peng! Collective, "Intelexit: Call-A-Spy", 2015. Installation. Installation view from 'Whistleblowers & Vigilantes, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2017. Photo by Anders Sune Berg. Images courtesy the artists and Kunsthall Charlottenborg.

Also on view are full copies of the Pentagon Papers, documents on the Vietnam War that were collected and leaked in 1971 by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. Screens on the surrounding walls play filmed interviews with Thomas Drake and noted lawyer Jesselyn Radack, who has represented whistleblowers like Drake, Snowden, and others. Elsewhere, Metahaven explore transparency, surveillance, and privacy with Black Transparency, a 14-minute video installation accompanied by a collection of graphic novel-esque scarves that combine fashion and information. In another room, a video installation shows the Collateral Murder videos leaked by Manning to WikiLeaks, which depict a US Apache helicopter shooting a group of Iraqi men, including two Reuters reporters.

Various, "I did it for the lulz", 2016. Wall paper, 4x3 mtr. Installation view from 'Whistleblowers & Vigilantes, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2017. Photo by Anders Sune Berg.

"[Whistleblowers] were seen as subversives or as enemies of the state, often with an (alleged) anti-American intent," says Kabisch. "This reductionist understanding coincided also with political activities on the ground when suddenly, especially in Europe, leftish critics of neoliberalism assisted whistleblowers (like Julian Assange) that are driven by an anarcho-capitalist agenda."

Kabisch and his co-curator Inke Arns were very intrigued by the differences amongst whistleblowers. Snowden, for instance, possesses 1.7 million NSA documents, yet has released less than one hundred of them. Assange, on the other hand, wants all government workings to be transparent in order to make power structures crumble.

Metahaven, "Black Transparency", 2014. Silk scarves, objects, video (14:00 min). Installation view from 'Whistleblowers & Vigilantes', Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2017. Photo by Anders Sune Berg.

Arns and Kabisch wondered why these individuals resist, as well as how they justify that very resistance. This curiosity caused the exhibition's scope to expand to include hackers like Anonymous and vigilantes like the Unabomber.

"With the surveillance infrastructure that is in place today, other notions of resistance come to the forefront of how one can resist certain effects of the Internet, or even the phenomena of the digital as such," Kabisch explains. "To give these points of view, and their notions of resistance a voice was the final aim of the exhibition."

Daniel Elsberg, "Pentagon Papers", 1971. Boxes of papers. Installation view from 'Whistleblowers & Vigilantes, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2017. Photo by Anders Sune Berg.

Arns and Kabisch selected artists like Peng! Collective and Metahaven because their digital art had become part of the political landscape, much like pioneering artists of the 1990s, such as Electronic Disturbance Theater, UBERMORGEN, and Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). For the curators, the artists featured in the show are defining the political debate about political representation in the Internet Age.

Lutz Dammbeck, "Cabin", 2003. A reconstructino of the Unabomber's cabin. Installation view from 'Whistleblowers & Vigilantes, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2017. Photo by Anders Sune Berg.

Arns says they selected Dammeck's Unabomber cabin and manifesto selections to note how vigilantes can be violent, like Kaczynski, and non-violent, like Anonymous.

"What makes the Unabomber particularly interesting is the fact that on the one hand side—by his resorting to violence—he is positioned as the exact opposite of Edward Snowden," says Arns. "But at the same time you could say that in 2013 Snowden proved the existence of 'the big machine' that Kaczynski already saw appearing on the horizon in the late 1970s and 1980s."

Ted Kaczynski, "Industrial Society and Its Future", 1995. Handwritten papers in frames. Installation view from 'Whistleblowers & Vigilantes, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2017. Photo by Anders Sune Berg.

Ultimately, Arns and Kabisch don't want to propagate any one particular political outlook inWhistleblowers & Vigilantes. For them, the show is an overview of the most notable figures of political resistance in the digital age.

"This does not mean that we want all of our visitors to start to resist," cautions Kabisch. "We want them to have this knowledge, so they can decipher the often reductionist debate about whistleblowers or other forms of resistance on the Internet. In this way we hope that they regain political agency."

Click here for more information on Whistleblowers & Vigilantes, which runs at Kunsthall Charlottenborg until August 13th.

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