More bomb attacks against nanotechnology in Mexico

17.8.11

17.8.11

The same group who took cred­it for anti-tech­nol­o­gy bomb­ing in April, which news sources in Mex­i­co report­ed explod­ing at Uni­ver­si­dad Politéc­ni­ca in Valle de Mex­i­co, has claimed more attacks.

Accord­ing to Time Mag­a­zine, “An anti-tech­nol­o­gy group… was respon­si­ble for a pack­age bomb that injured two uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sors just out­side Mex­i­co City, a state pros­e­cu­tor said Tues­day [August 9, 2011]. Mexico’s Attor­ney General’s Office announced that a sus­pi­cious enve­lope pre­sumbly con­tain­ing explo­sives was found at Mexico’s Nation­al Poly­tech­ni­cal Insti­tute on Tues­day, though it didn’t det­o­nate. The office has opened inves­ti­ga­tions into both inci­dents.”

The Time arti­cle claims the groups is call­ing itself ‘Indi­vid­u­als Tend­ing to Sav­agery’, although a translator’s note on the anar­chist blog War On Soci­ety, which post­ed a trans­la­tion of the com­mu­nique, uses the name ‘Indi­vid­u­al­ists Tend­ing Towards the Wild’ and explains: “The group’s name, Indi­vid­u­al­i­dades ten­di­en­do a lo Sal­va­je [ITS]… more lit­er­al­ly means ‘indi­vid­u­al­i­ties,’ and sal­va­je more lit­er­al­ly means ‘sav­age’… hav­ing more of the con­no­ta­tions of bar­barous undo­mes­ti­cat­ed wild­ness than pure pris­tine wilder­ness, and with­out as much racist con­no­ta­tion as the Eng­lish ‘sav­age’ has.”

As with the April com­mu­nique, ITS is again a bit wordy, with plen­ty of foot­notes, ala Ted Kaczyn­s­ki. Here are some excerpts: “But what’s wrong with cre­at­ing solar ener­gy through mod­i­fied nanopar­ti­cles? some will say. ITS answer: When these mod­i­fied virus­es affect the way we devel­op as the result of a nanobac­te­ri­o­log­i­cal war, by some lab­o­ra­to­ry error, or by the explo­sion of nanocon­t­a­m­i­na­tion that com­pro­mis­es the air, food, trans­porta­tion, water, in short, the entire world, then they will real­ize, all those who defend nan­otech­nol­o­gy and can­not find an appar­ent threat, that it was a grave mis­take to leave it to grow at their leisure.”

“Among the projects at the men­tioned uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus are the Cen­ter for Busi­ness Devel­op­ment and Trans­fer­ence of Tech­nol­o­gy, CEDETEC, which is part of a futur­is­tic phi­los­o­phy called Mis­sion 2015, which is com­mit­ted to devel­op­ing research and tech­nol­o­gy rel­e­vant to nanobioin­dus­tri­al progress for the coun­try in dif­fer­ent areas… CEDETEC is a place where the efforts of com­pa­nies, the State, and the uni­ver­si­ty merge, and which aims to pro­mote job cre­ation, attrac­tion of cap­i­tal, and growth of tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies and to increase val­ue for the acad­e­my.”

“…It is log­i­cal we will con­tin­ue with these acts, and oth­er sci­en­tists and the rest of tech­noswillol­o­gy [the orig­i­nal ‘tec­nobazofia’ more seam­less­ly com­bines two words mean­ing ‘tech­nol­o­gy’ and ‘pigswill’ or ‘hog­wash’ — transl.] must pay the con­se­quences of their actions…”