The shadow

The late nineteenth century articulated eugenics. Some bodies should reproduce and others should not, and the structure would enforce it. Across the following century that produced sterilisation programmes, marriage bans, immigration policy, and mass killing.

The shadow is enormous and the chapter does not pretend to step around it.

The test dispatches eugenics cleanly. It is parasitic contraction at the scale of populations — one class using institutional override to contract the room of people it judged unworthy. The verdict is unambiguous at every level.

But the shadow does not exhaust the question. It is one shape contraction can take at this site. The mid-twentieth century resolved heredity to molecules. The early twenty-first made editing widely available. The question is now asked one genome at a time, and the shadow alone does not answer it.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

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