Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismThe Almighty DollarBodies die. The human body offends against its natural right to life. Death puts a limit to property and prosthetic accumulation. Or does it? Locke's brilliant solution is to find a substitute that doesn't spoil. His evangel? Money: "And thus came in the use of money, some lasting thing that men might keep without spoiling, and that by mutual consent men would take in exchange for the truly useful, but perishable supports of life." [1] Money is the God prosthesis. It immortalizes the effects of bodily life and labor. Accumulation lives! Notes1. John Locke," Second Treatise on Government, ed. C. B. Macpherson (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1980), 28. Navigation |