{"id":32673,"date":"2013-08-02T20:04:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32673"},"modified":"2013-08-02T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T20:04:31","slug":"breeding-unity-battlestar-galacticas-biracial-reproductive-futurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32673","title":{"rendered":"Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica&#8217;s Biracial Reproductive Futurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/02705346-1727446\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Breeding Unity:<\/em> Battlestar Galactica&#8217;s <em>Biracial Reproductive Futurity<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cameraobscura.dukejournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Camera Obscura<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cameraobscura.dukejournals.org\/content\/27\/3_81.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 27, Number 3 81<\/a>\u00a0(2012)<br \/>\npages 1-37<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/02705346-1727446\" target=\"_blank\">10.1215\/02705346-1727446<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uva.nl\/over-de-uva\/organisatie\/medewerkers\/content\/k\/u\/a.m.kustritz\/a.m.kustritz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Kustritz<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Television Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Amsterdam<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/em> reinvigorated the science fiction genre by representing contemporary political problems in a complex, often radical fashion, the series also makes visible a new articulation of eugenic thinking. Postmodern eugenics repurposes turn-of-the-twentieth-century ideas of racial progress and recombines them with different narratives and ideologies so that audiences may receive them as new and cut off from history. By centering its finale on the survival of one genetically idealized child, <em>Battlestar<\/em> constructs a new narrative context for an old story that rationalizes the sacrifice of the nonheterosexual, nonreproductive, and nonconformist to build a \u201cbetter\u201d race. The idealization of biraciality in <em>Battlestar<\/em> puts eugenic means to modern ends: the biological construction of a future wherein difference can be dealt with in reproductive rather than political terms. Two pieces of fan video art, \u201cUnnatural Selection\u201d and \u201cBattlestar Redactica,\u201d clarify <em>Battlestar<\/em>&#8216;s complicity in eugenic violence and history, while offering alternative solutions to the moral and narrative impasses of the series. By refusing the genetic stasis <em>Battlestar<\/em> proposes, these fan video projects invite audiences to continue exploring multiple definitions of survival, hybridity, and cultural transformation, reanimating characters sacrificed in the series on its way to genetic utopia (or dystopia) and thereby resuscitating the multiple, queer, contradictory futures they embodied.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/cameraobscura.dukejournals.org\/content\/27\/3_81\/1.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica&#8217;s Biracial Reproductive Futurity Camera Obscura Volume 27, Number 3 81\u00a0(2012) pages 1-37 DOI: 10.1215\/02705346-1727446 Anne Kustritz, Assistant Professor in Television Studies University of Amsterdam While Battlestar Galactica reinvigorated the science fiction genre by representing contemporary political problems in a complex, often radical fashion, the series also makes visible a new articulation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,20],"tags":[15333,4444,940],"class_list":["post-32673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-anne-kustritz","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-camera-obscura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}