The idea that the human is a genetically perfectible artefact is eugenic. There is a tension between the idea of the human body existing in a state of nature, which must be preserved at all costs, and the idea of the body as part of an ongoing technical evolution. The biological possibilities were spectacular, however my concerns were with context, who and what are defining this? ​In 1972, when I was seven years old our family went to Poland for summer holidays. This was the