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The Chronopolitical Order of Things: Technologies of the Quantified Self in Andrew Niccol's In Time and Michael Anderson's Logan's Run

The Chronopolitical Order of Things: Technologies of the Quantified Self in Andrew Niccol's In... As a film about a science fictional future in which genetic engineering is used to guard against the threat of overpopulation, Andrew Niccol's In Time (2011) bears a remarkable resemblance to Michael Anderson's environmental dystopia Logan's Run (1976). This article traces the narrative similarities of these two dystopian ecocinematic Hollywood productions, while demonstrating how they succeed as social critiques of technoscientific social regimes that wreak havoc on the Earth and its inhabitants. Borrowing from Michel Foucault's theories of a biopolitics of the population, this article argues that both film-makers' works contribute to our understanding of the potentially culturally and environmentally devastating implications of genetic engineering. Seen through the lens of Foucault's ideas about the disciplinary technologies of the self-regulated subject, the article suggests that Niccol's In Time is particularly noteworthy for its creative problematizing of the increasing normalization of high-tech bodily modification, enhancement, and digital quantification. There is a movement from geo- to chrono-politics: the distribution of territory becomes the distribution of time. -- Paul Virilio1 Tinkering with our ageing genes could add yet another 20 years in the 22nd century and get most of us up to or beyond 120 years of age. The 120-year-olds had better http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Critical Survey Berghahn Books

The Chronopolitical Order of Things: Technologies of the Quantified Self in Andrew Niccol's In Time and Michael Anderson's Logan's Run

Critical Survey , Volume 25 (2) – Jun 1, 2013

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Berghahn Books
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0011-1570
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1752-2293
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10.3167/cs.2013.250207
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Abstract

As a film about a science fictional future in which genetic engineering is used to guard against the threat of overpopulation, Andrew Niccol's In Time (2011) bears a remarkable resemblance to Michael Anderson's environmental dystopia Logan's Run (1976). This article traces the narrative similarities of these two dystopian ecocinematic Hollywood productions, while demonstrating how they succeed as social critiques of technoscientific social regimes that wreak havoc on the Earth and its inhabitants. Borrowing from Michel Foucault's theories of a biopolitics of the population, this article argues that both film-makers' works contribute to our understanding of the potentially culturally and environmentally devastating implications of genetic engineering. Seen through the lens of Foucault's ideas about the disciplinary technologies of the self-regulated subject, the article suggests that Niccol's In Time is particularly noteworthy for its creative problematizing of the increasing normalization of high-tech bodily modification, enhancement, and digital quantification. There is a movement from geo- to chrono-politics: the distribution of territory becomes the distribution of time. -- Paul Virilio1 Tinkering with our ageing genes could add yet another 20 years in the 22nd century and get most of us up to or beyond 120 years of age. The 120-year-olds had better

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Critical SurveyBerghahn Books

Published: Jun 1, 2013

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