On Artificial Wombs - by Zineb Riboua

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“The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.” ― Pliny the Younger Corpses instead of Bodies: The decomposition of the mind and the body is the consequence not of a utopian project, but of marginal assumptions with serious effects, as they consist in conceiving the mind as outside the body. The body is a spare part. The body is a hindrance, an obstacle; one more misery to maintain and feed, to make sleep sometimes. The body is a burden. The body is a barrier to a more egalitarian and democratic society. The body is the metastasis of our existence. Determinism combined with transhumanism; made the body not just wrongfully seen as an obstacle to live with or to be modified, but to be eliminated.

The fetus in the womb (detail; c. 1511), Leonardo da Vinci. “The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.” ― Pliny the Younger The decomposition of the mind and the body is the consequence not of a utopian project, but of marginal assumptions with serious effects, as they consist in conceiving the mind as outside the body. The body is a spare part. The body is a hindrance, an obstacle; one more misery to maintain and feed, to make sleep sometimes. The body is a burden. The body is a barrier to a more egalitarian and democratic society. The body is the metastasis of…

On Artificial Wombs - by Zineb Riboua

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