ISBN:
9789401207027
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (231 Seiten)
Edition:
Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Thamyris intersecting 25
Series Statement:
Thamyris, intersecting
Parallel Title:
Print version Clones, Fakes and Posthumans
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Cloning
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Kultursoziologie
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Klonierung
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Replikation
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Massenfertigung
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Konsumgesellschaft
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references
Abstract:
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 characterist
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Cloning and Cultures of Replication; Part One: Technologies, Fantasies and Philosophies of Life; Homo Clonicus; Gentech Agriculture; Transposing Life; Replacement Humans; Part Two: Cultural Cloning; Cloning, Cultures, and the Social Injustices of Homogeneities; The Pursuit of Perfection; Cloning the Physician; Cloning Disappearance, Consuming Fakes; Part Three: Replicating and Marketing Faith; Marketing Religion; Civilizing Missions; The Yanqui Makeover; Part Four: The Cloning Imaginary: Proliferations of a Fantasy
Description / Table of Contents:
Twin EnemiesDead Ringer - Knock Off; Destiny - Eternity; The Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1163/9789401207027
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