J.P.HARPIGNIES
ISBN:1-887276-06-8
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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.
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Chapel Of Sacred Mirrors by J.P. Harpignies
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Mission statement:
"The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors will provide a permanent public exhibition of
Alex Grey's most outstanding and widely appreciated works of transformative art,
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fostering a vision of the fully awakened human potential."
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JP Harpignies
.P. Harpignies, a radical “new left” student activist in the late 1960s and early
1970s in the U.S. and Europe, has been involved with many environmental causes.
A former program director at the New York Open Center and contributing editor to its
magazine, Lapis, he is an associate producer of the annual Bioneers environmental
conference as well as a program consultant and conference producer for other organizations.
He is the author of Double Helix Hubris (Cool Grove, 1997), a polemical critique of genetic
manipulation, and co-editor (with Kenny Ausubel) of the first two titles in the Bioneers
book series: Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating Instructions (both Sierra Club
Books, 2004). He is also a long-time instructor of Taijiquan based in Brooklyn, NYC.
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