Excerpt from Michaela Nash’ Essay for Seeing you seeing Me, Revision Festival 2022.

Not everyone needs genetic vulnerabilities, modern life and technologies alone don't agree with the old mechanisms of human bodies. Or rather they can be easily hijacked. Consider how fast food hijacks our natural cravings for salt, fat and sugar, which would have been rare to find and also stored up by our bodies to use during times of hunger. Or how social media gamifies our [...]