Germ-Line Mutation



One full sequencing of the broadest components. The idea is scanning the Southwest, its regional inhabitants seen as they collide with surmounting economic and technological forces. Cultural identity folds in the collision as religious and secular traditions become permeated by foreign matter. The insertion of vast technological directives results in germ-line mutations. These newly formed biological components carry the genetic coding of the parent organism along with new, heteromorphic data. As a carriage system the individual acts as the armature for entropic forces, rupturing the lines of existing social parameters. In the case of the recorded participants these initiatives remained highly determinant. Familial relationships were most impacted by the forces surrounding uranium mining; secondary mutations progressed through this domain. Initially, lexical morphology was most expected, wherein the evolution of word forms was triggered by radical shifts in the environment. Despite the suffocation and isolation of the region there was also corresponding emergence of community and native bilingualism. This overlap of emergent languages to accommodate old suggests an equally fragmenting push on the individual as new forms strive to exist within the native model. While a polarity between social initiatives and root language may eventually find constructive outlet, there is nonetheless an elemental shift occurring. As the shift proliferates its circular dispersal widens, connecting more individuals with an oppositional stratum. Its manipulated territory lies in contrast to the traditional, homogenizing tendencies found in cultural performance. In place of communal participation, emergent forms are so altering as to rend social fabric.