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DOUBLE HELIX HUBRIS:
Against Designer Genes
by J.P. Harpignies

Double Helix Hubris by J. P.Harpignies is a polemical essay written to educate the public and to stimulate debate about a technology that has the potential to dramatically alter life on Earth, but that has been insufficiently understood and discussed.

- It also explores Techno-Utopianism in contemporary popular culture and why opposition to many potentially hazardous and ethically perplexing developments in Biotech research has, so far, been hard to mobilize.

- While the media is now displaying some fascination with the cloning of animals, as a rule, the coverage has been sporadic and superficial. As a result, even the usually well informed are confused or unaware of the startling and dangerous developments in this field.

-J. P. Harpignies's Double Helix Hubris is a powerful broadside against the corporate juggernaut of genetic engineering. For those (and there are many) who have been averting their eyes and ears, this short survey will be a desperately urgent wake-up call. Reading it gives new meaning to William Burroughs's definition of the paranoid as 'anyone who is in full possession of the facts'.
- Donald Nicholson-Smith, translator of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle (Zone Books, 1994)

THE AUTHOR: J. P. Harpignies is an Associate Producer of the annual Bioneers Conference, a contributing editor to LAPIS magazine and a former Program Director at the New York Open Center. Inquiries regarding print, radio and TV media interviews, book signings or speaking engagements should be directed to the Publisher.