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This text is excerpted from the opening chapters and reprinted with permission from Synthetic: How Life Got Made by Sophia Roosth, forthcoming in March from the University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved.
Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.