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 A Capella Science. 2016. CRISPR-Cas9

This hilarious Mr. Sandman parody satirizes the Nobel Prize (2020) winning genetic engineering technique by which the genomes of living organisms can be modified:

(lyrics) … Cas9

Cheap and precise

Rewriting genomes from microbes to mice

And soon the humble human being

CRISPR-Cas9 bring me a gene …

 Dorian Electra. 2015. Forever Young: A Love Song to Ray Kurzweil.

 Lady Gaga. 2011. Born This Way.

Lady Gaga plays with identity in a post-/transhumanist manner (Miller 2020):

 is an alien goddess, a zombie, a dancer, an evil goddess, a humanoid life form; video cuts between shots of her different roles ▶ her identity is constantly changing

 common binaries are broken down: good/evil (“How can I protect something so perfect without evil?”), male/female, white/nonwhite (backup dancers in shadow ▶ gender and racial distinctions obscure), human/non-human (new creatures: “a race within the human race”, “bears no prejudice, no judgment” ▶ transhumanist ideas: more than human, human enhancement)

 lyrics: “I was born this way” ▶ contradiction to posthuman message (universal and constant nature in each person) or emphasis of posthumanism (“same DNA” ▶ breakdown of binaries)?

 music: autotuning, electronically manipulating the human voice ▶ a hybrid human-robotic sound ▶ distinction between human and machine distorted.

 Katy Perry. 2011. E.T.