Eugenics on Repeat

This DigScape is a companion piece to Émile P. Torres’s Truthdig feature, “Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, and the Eternal Return of Eugenics.”

“Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.” ―G.K. Chesterton

This episode covers the American mainstreaming and enthusiastic promotion of the pseudo-science of eugenics with its recent re-emergence. It’s especially tragic and creepy when we learn how eugenics inspired the Nazis’ embrace of its genocidal program during WWII.

DIG•SCAPE is an audio alternative-phenomenological-impressionistic, multicultural soundscape mashup of loud issues, intuition+research and multisampled insights investigating our current wackadoodle malaise from an askew, engaged and anomalous vantage point.

Related Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, and the Eternal Return of Eugenics

Playlist

Underwater Love • Smoke City
Mandatory Sterilization • Dan Cummins
Mind Control • Deadbeat & Paul St. Hilaire
Hailing Frequencies Open • Meat Beat Manifesto
Train Dub • Sean Peoples
Iron Horse Deep Sleep • The Suntrees Sky
Disintegration • Wouter Snoei
Different Trains (Part I) • Steve Reich
Different Trains Europe During the War • Steve Reich
Train [Stalker] • Edward Artemiev
Panoptikon • Diamanda Galas
Scientist • Dopplereffekt
Sterilization • Péloquin-Sauvageau
Death Mix Part 2 • Afrika Bambaata
Kash Radios • Matt Rogalsky
Sterilization • Dopplereffekt
The Brooding Side Of Madness • Joe Strummer
Piste 04 [Züfall] • Erikm & Akosh S
I Just Wanna Get High With You • Son Of Dave
Strange Fruit Instrumental • Pete Rock
Nike Town • Son Of Dave
Nazi Trumps Fuck Off • Jello Biafra
Eugenics • Arnaud Le Texier
Daydreams in Low Fidelity • Halftribe
Blood On My Hands • Shackleton
Space 1.8 • Nala Sinephro
Central Park 1850 • Charlie Morrow

Sources

The movement that inspired the Holocaust, Race and Reproduction The North Carolina Story, How Britain and America Inspired Nazi Eugenics, US Government Cleaning the Population, The Birth Control Movement and Eugenics, The Dark side of Science: The Horror of Eugenics Theory, Legacy of American Eugenics, Eugenics propaganda film from 1937, The History of Forced Sterilization of Women in the United States, Red Dead Redemption 2, Lawrence Senate Chaplain tells GOP thoughts and prayers arent good enough, Lynching in America The Legacy of Lynching, Enhanced Humans & the New Eugenics, War on the Weak Eugenics in America, Eugenics Meaning Eugenics Definition Eugenics Examples, What Is Eugenics, Chapter 1 The Eugenics Crusade, America and Eugenics, CARING CORRUPTED The Killing Nurses of The Third Reich, In Vivo The Horrific Experiments Performed By Josef Mengele, More Migrant Women Speak Out About Forced Sterilization in ICE Detention Centers, A Dangerous Idea: The History of Eugenics in America, Eugenics: positive vs negative – Pathways

Smoke City, Dan Cummins, Deadbeat & Paul St. Hilaire, Meat Beat Manifesto, Sean Peoples, The Suntrees Sky, Wouter Snoei, Steve Reich, Edward Artemiev, Diamanda Galas, Dopplereffekt, Péloquin-Sauvageau, Afrika Bambaata, Matt Rogalsky, Erikm & Akosh S, Son Of Dave, Pete Rock, Jello Biafra, Arnaud Le Texier, Halftribe, Shackleton, Nala Sinephro, Charlie Morrow