Brain Eugenics: How to Produce an Ideal Worker?

This chapter analyzes the discursive and non-discursive techniques of subjectification that are inscribed both in the architectural arrangement of Lumon Industries and in the presentation of the job description on the severed floor. Lumon’s aim is to adopt the severance procedure as a solution for achieving a happy life, but this seemingly perfectly organized machine will fall apart because the brain eugenics at Lumon Industries is a diabolical biopolitical mechanism that seeks to achieve the ultimate goal of overcoming mortality. Thus, it is only a small step from brain eugenics to absolute desubjectification of the workers and their loss of humanity, where they may live forever, but with a memory that can be erased and activated at any time for a precise time and with respect to the goals Lumon Industries wants to achieve.