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Daniel Hourigan starts us off on a consideration of this question by interrogating, in his essay 'Biotech Fantasia', the way biotechnology has become an "ideological phenomenon" that has effectively worked to question not only our understanding of ourselves but our understanding of how we should regulate our interactions with others. What is the effect, Hourigan asks here, of accepting biotechnology's description of us being no more than our genes? Does this make "the 'I' that desires and wills ... a meaningless formula"? Utilising Zizek's work, Hourigan's answer is 'yes' but that this does not necessarily have to entail the complete loss of ethical possibility and community. Rather it highlights the need to rethink "the ethical content of biotechnology" (Hourigan, 2007), so as to enable a post-rational bioethics.

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