Artists' engagement with bleeding-edge tech will always have the potential to critique its destructive civil and military applications, as well as the potential to be co-opted by them—as propaganda or R&D—as the rise of the so-called knowledge economy has amply demonstrated.

However, the possibility of Dair, and the weird moves Ben keeps making with Damien are the only things that keep the series strong.

Coordinate term: DRC

It is even masqued by that sort of good-humoured air that at heart he resents his impressment.