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245 0 0 _aClones, fakes and posthumans :
_bcultures of replication /
_cedited by Philomena Essed and Gabriele Schwab.
264 1 _aAmsterdam ;
_aNew York :
_bEditions Rodopi B.V.,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (231 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aThamyris /Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race ;
_v25
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary material /
_rEditors Clones, Fakes and Posthumans --
_tIntroduction: Cloning and Cultures of Replication /
_rPhilomena Essed and Gabriele Schwab --
_tHomo Clonicus /
_rVerena Stolcke --
_tGentech Agriculture /
_rHeleen van den Hombergh --
_tTransposing Life /
_rRosi Braidotti --
_tReplacement Humans /
_rGabriele Schwab --
_tCloning, Cultures, and the Social Injustices of Homogeneities /
_rPhilomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg --
_tThe Pursuit of Perfection /
_rRoss D. Parke , Christine Ward Gailey , Scott Coltrane and M. Robin DiMatteo --
_tCloning the Physician /
_rPhilomena Essed --
_tCloning Disappearance, Consuming Fakes /
_rAckbar Abbas --
_tMarketing Religion /
_rEileen Luhr --
_tCivilizing Missions /
_rRebecca Kugel --
_tThe Yanqui Makeover /
_rToby Miller --
_tTwin Enemies /
_rGabriele Schwab --
_tDead Ringer – Knock Off /
_rCarole-Anne Tyler --
_tDestiny – Eternity /
_rNancy Postero --
_tThe Contributors /
_rEditors Clones, Fakes and Posthumans.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aClones, 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.
650 0 _aCloning.
650 7 _aCloning.
_2fast
700 1 _aEssed, Philomena,
_d1955-
700 1 _aSchwab, Gabriele.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tClones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication
_dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2012,
_z9789042034167
830 0 _aThamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
_v25.
830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004357907.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401207027
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