"The exhibition makes the case for understanding the fascination with cannibalism as a seismographic reaction to contemporary developments such as medical innovations that confront the boundaries between two bodies — organ transplants, genetic manipulations, and gestational surrogacy. Against this background monstrous sexist, racist and consumerist tendencies emerge."
—There is an exhibition on cannibalism in, of all places, Germany. Here's a slideshow! [And, of course, related.]
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Yeah, there's nothing I hate more than "sexist, racist and consumerist" cannibals. Asian woman who shop at Sears deserve to be eaten too.
Does the potential for cannibalism lie dormant in all of us? According to the new exhibition "All Cannibals?" at Berlin's "me Collector's Room," the answer is yes.
And without all the pomo deconstruction, a few weeks without food on a raft would bring the same answer. In the Heart of the Sea makes it sound pretty palliative, if not delicious.
I hate it how after any major disaster there are all these phony reports of widespread cannibalism. This is a classist, racist myth; post-disaster cannibalism does not occur. And besides, those poor people are just doing what they have to do to survive. How can that be wrong?