ABSTRACT
This chapter details an interview with Nestor Pestana. In this interview, Nestor Pestana asks whether our conception of ecosystems as a source of nourishment that exists external to our own bodies is now an idea ripe for challenge. The narrative of ‘The Exudaters’ is modelled on these Utopian communities of Essex, depicting a biohacker community living in isolation from an industrial and materialistic world. Post-humanism embraces the idea of a human being defined not only by a biological body but also the technologies that are produced at a given place and time. New technological developments exert both positive and negative impact on our social and economic landscape: Positive in that they can be a motor driving society forward, for example, with regard to scalable medical advances, but also negative in how they generate inequalities, ultimately around who has access or control over new technologies.
