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The temporal coincidence of these two events [the Budapest Gay Pride and the Bezos-Sanchez wedding] suggests that we should mark 28 June 2025 as the day of the cyborgs’ triumph, on both ends of the political spectrum. Now, the true dialectic is - as [Antonio] Negri writes - biopolitical, and the fundamental decision is whether one intervenes to intensify one’s biological determinations or to negate them. More than ever, the political is the personal in the most material sense of the term: buckets of blood; bone shavings; connective, adipose, and epithelial tissue; and tonnes of silicone and Botox undergird both the Mar-a-Lago aesthetic of Venice and the claims of Gay Pride in Budapest.
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Alejandro Zaera-Polo (architect), "Bodas de sangre en Venecia". Published in the 'ABC de Sevilla', 8 July 2025. Translated from the Spanish.