Homegrown Pleasures. How To Get Some Extra Fun With Your Biomass

Vortrag | Lecture
im Rahmen der Konferenz "Arse Elektronika 2008: Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?", Ft. Mason Center, San Francisco, 25.-28.09.2008

Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? Next question, please. For Philip K. Dick's replicants humans are the ultimate fuck. And we have good reasons to assume this being one of the more serious bugs in their basic construction, installed with purpose or not.

However, sexual pleasure remains a warrantable demand any serious futurologist has to keep on the agenda – and even considered some of the most renowned thinkers of this discipline have left us with rather discouraging perspectives we should not waste our time with lamenting about the consequences of human, all too human errors resulting from misdirected research. Clearly one of the main faults in many related projects was and is their rootedness in the problematic paradigm of engineering by the way of mechatronic extension and/or enhancement. No doubt humans (as well as any other cyborg species) can have fun with aptly constructed devices, ranging from common sex toys over artificial replicas of their own kind to complex mecha- and/or cybertronic inventions. Yet there are not only more traditional, at hand solutions equally fulfilling the task – and being in many respects, from cost-effort ratio to fun factor, the better choice as well. When looking for new sustainable technologies providing us with some extra lust quitting the beaten tracks of prosthetic constructions is the basic step towards satisfactory solutions.

In fact, if we ask for future improvements in the sex tech sector we should focus on one of the most emerging fields of advanced technological developments: bio-technology – and, more specifically, wetware engineering. Some early sci-fi sketches of what meanwhile has become a promising branch can help with additional hints for which directions research might take. And above all nature itself provides us with a whole range of inspiring examples.

Hence let us test some xenogene and allogene strategies for working out our biomass potentials: organic as well as mental tuning for 100% eco-logical, renewable, and finally also bio-degradable tekkno lust. Grow your own super-natural sex toy! Low costs, high performance! Have fun with yourself – and others! Unlimited pleasures guaranteed…

Hintergrundinformationen | Background Information:

Projekt "" auf www.under-construction.cc | Project "DIY SCI" at www.under-construction.cc

Forschungsschwerpunkt Do It Yourself-Kulturen auf www.under-construction.cc | research focus Do It Yourself cultures at www.under-construction.cc

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