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Chinese Academy biogenetics program

anecdote · personal/autobiographical · retold in 4 talks

A Chinese Academy of Sciences biogenetics program document Žižek saw stated its goal as 'to regulate the physical and psychic wellbeing of the Chinese people', used to illustrate how biogenetic power openly aims at transforming human nature without Western humanitarian euphemism.

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“the goal of the development of biogenetics in China is to regulate the physical and psychic wellbeing of the Chinese people”
“The long-term goal is to all the Chinese people with, now I quote their program, 'the progressive regulation of the physical and psychic properties of the Chinese people.'”
53:15 To Begin from The Beginning2010-06-26 · 1:48:31
“the goal of our research is to regulate the physical and psychic well-being of the Chinese people.”
59:54 God in Pain2012-04-24 · 1:16:53

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A Chinese Academy of Sciences biogenetics program document Žižek saw stated its goal as 'to regulate the physical and psychic wellbeing of the Chinese people', used to illustrate how biogenetic power openly aims at transforming human nature without Western humanitarian euphemism., illustrating biogenetics and human nature,ideology
53:15 To Begin from The Beginning2010-06-26 · 1:48:31
Žižek recounts a meeting in China where an official showed him documents of a state-private program to 'progressively regulate the physical and psychic properties of the Chinese people' through biogenetics, illustrating that neither market nor state can decide such questions., illustrating commons of inner nature,biogenetics,the need for communist governance
59:54 God in Pain2012-04-24 · 1:16:53
A top Chinese Academy of Sciences official showed Žižek a biogenetics research program whose stated goal was explicitly to 'regulate the physical and psychic well-being of the Chinese people', presented as evidence of the state ambitions accompanying new bio-tech., illustrating biogenetics,state power,technology and subjectivity
At a conference Žižek met the head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences cognitive sciences division, whose programmatic statement began: 'the goal of biogenetics in China is to regulate the biological and psychological welfare of the Chinese people.' Horrifying for its candor about population management., illustrating biogenetics and state control,authoritarian capitalism