Clones, fakes and posthumans : cultures of replication /
Clones, fakes and posthumans : cultures of replication /
edited by Philomena Essed and Gabriele Schwab.
- 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations.
- Thamyris /Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race ; 25 .
- Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 25. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004357907. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary material / Introduction: Cloning and Cultures of Replication / Homo Clonicus / Gentech Agriculture / Transposing Life / Replacement Humans / Cloning, Cultures, and the Social Injustices of Homogeneities / The Pursuit of Perfection / Cloning the Physician / Cloning Disappearance, Consuming Fakes / Marketing Religion / Civilizing Missions / The Yanqui Makeover / Twin Enemies / Dead Ringer – Knock Off / Destiny – Eternity / The Contributors / Editors Clones, Fakes and Posthumans -- Philomena Essed and Gabriele Schwab -- Verena Stolcke -- Heleen van den Hombergh -- Rosi Braidotti -- Gabriele Schwab -- Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg -- Ross D. Parke , Christine Ward Gailey , Scott Coltrane and M. Robin DiMatteo -- Philomena Essed -- Ackbar Abbas -- Eileen Luhr -- Rebecca Kugel -- Toby Miller -- Gabriele Schwab -- Carole-Anne Tyler -- Nancy Postero -- Editors Clones, Fakes and Posthumans.
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Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication explores cloning and related phenomena that inform each other, like twins, fakes, replica, or homogeneities, through a cultural prism. What could it mean to think of a cloning mentality? Could it be that a “cloning culture” has made biotechnological cloning desirable in the first place, and vice versa that biotechnological cloning then enforces technologies of social and cultural cloning? What does it mean to say that a culture replicates? If biotechnological cloning has to do with choice and repetitive reproduction of selected characteristics, how are those kinds of desires expressed socially, politically and culturally? Lifting the issue of cloning above the biotechnological domain, we problematize the cultural context, including modernity’s readiness to imitate and manipulate nature, and the skewed privileging of desirable socialities as a basis for exclusive replication. We also explore possible relations between a cloning mentality and a consumer society that fosters a brand-name mentality. The construction and (coercive) implementation of copy-prone technological and symbolic items are at the very heart of the consumer society and its modes of mass production as they have emerged from and seek to articulate, define, and refine modernity and modernization.
9789401207027
10.1163/9789401207027 DOI
2012472160
Cloning.
Cloning.
QH442.2 / .C565 2012
660.65
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary material / Introduction: Cloning and Cultures of Replication / Homo Clonicus / Gentech Agriculture / Transposing Life / Replacement Humans / Cloning, Cultures, and the Social Injustices of Homogeneities / The Pursuit of Perfection / Cloning the Physician / Cloning Disappearance, Consuming Fakes / Marketing Religion / Civilizing Missions / The Yanqui Makeover / Twin Enemies / Dead Ringer – Knock Off / Destiny – Eternity / The Contributors / Editors Clones, Fakes and Posthumans -- Philomena Essed and Gabriele Schwab -- Verena Stolcke -- Heleen van den Hombergh -- Rosi Braidotti -- Gabriele Schwab -- Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg -- Ross D. Parke , Christine Ward Gailey , Scott Coltrane and M. Robin DiMatteo -- Philomena Essed -- Ackbar Abbas -- Eileen Luhr -- Rebecca Kugel -- Toby Miller -- Gabriele Schwab -- Carole-Anne Tyler -- Nancy Postero -- Editors Clones, Fakes and Posthumans.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication explores cloning and related phenomena that inform each other, like twins, fakes, replica, or homogeneities, through a cultural prism. What could it mean to think of a cloning mentality? Could it be that a “cloning culture” has made biotechnological cloning desirable in the first place, and vice versa that biotechnological cloning then enforces technologies of social and cultural cloning? What does it mean to say that a culture replicates? If biotechnological cloning has to do with choice and repetitive reproduction of selected characteristics, how are those kinds of desires expressed socially, politically and culturally? Lifting the issue of cloning above the biotechnological domain, we problematize the cultural context, including modernity’s readiness to imitate and manipulate nature, and the skewed privileging of desirable socialities as a basis for exclusive replication. We also explore possible relations between a cloning mentality and a consumer society that fosters a brand-name mentality. The construction and (coercive) implementation of copy-prone technological and symbolic items are at the very heart of the consumer society and its modes of mass production as they have emerged from and seek to articulate, define, and refine modernity and modernization.
9789401207027
10.1163/9789401207027 DOI
2012472160
Cloning.
Cloning.
QH442.2 / .C565 2012
660.65