ART AND FEAR; TRANS. BY JULIE ROSE

the long version

"Paul Virilio traces the twin developments of art and science over the 20th century, a development that emerges as a nightmare dance of death. In Virilio's scorching vision, art and science vie with each other for the destruction of the human form as we know it. At the start of the 21st century science has finally left art behind as genetic engineers prepare to turn themselves into the worst of expressionists, the Human Genome Project their godless manifesto, the human being their raw material for new and monstrous forms of life."--Jacket.