The article reviews the art exhibition Hippie Modernism: Struggle for Utopia, which featured works by artists including Ira Cohen, Evelyn Roth and Ken Isaac, held at Walker Art Center, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, through February 28, 2016.

This article argues that "genetic modernism" in seeds was simultaneously a technoscientific and a political project that materialized under wartime Vichy's proto-fascist regime and that contributed to shaping and legitimizing Vichy as a "planner state." The constitution of the genetically homogeneous cultivar as a scientific object, a market commodity, and a state policy object went hand in han...