VIII - Buried Inside

Necessity is the plea for every extension, for every elaboration of the twin

gospels of service provision and security restraint: the folded geographies

that demarcate all worth

Called or not the arbiters will come

Called or not biometrics will come

Technologies do their definitive labour on wedding nights

Sensory organs meet calculating engines

Eurodac fucks Privium in the penthouse of control data

But be warned: When the body is the input, when the body is the witness,

when the body is the passport, inscribed and immobilized

Necessity will bring severed hands, forked-out eyes, and ripped-off limbs

scattered along frontiers and abandoned in gutters as the dregs of desperation

The goal of a technology is incorporated a priori in the design and is not

negotiable

-Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology