Crimes of the Future: Trans-Cyborg Art or Bureaucratic Autopostasies?

Once again, we had to shove way too many words into our title, but we swear, we touch on all of these figures in our long awaited return from Summer Break. Cutting into David Cronenberg's new film "Crimes of the Future," we append ourselves to Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie and Jacques Derrida's Beast and Sovereign: Seminar I. An overarching question we ask is whether this film can be a strident affirmation of Trans Politics if it stages the growth of new  hormones and new organs without studying their relation to gender. We travel back in time (alongside Derrida) to think about the spectacle of the autopsy, specifically as it relates to the establishment of power and knowledge. Honorable mention goes out to the curiosity of the bureaucrat and Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, and his late 19th century experimentations with subcutaneous injections of the fluid from dog and guinea pig testicles. We could have gone on much longer.

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