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Format: 1 online resource (231 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789401207027

Series Statement: Thamyris /Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race ; 25

Content: 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.

Note: 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 /

Additional Edition: Print version: Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2012, ISBN 9789042034167

Language: English

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Format: 231 S.

ISBN: 9789042034167 , 940120702X , 9042034165 , 9789401207027

Series Statement: Thamyris 25

Note: Met lit. opg , Introduction: cloning and cultures of replication / Philomena Essed and Gabriele SchwabHomo cultures / Verena Stolecke -- Gentech agriculture / Heleen van den Hombergh -- Transposing life / Rosi Braidotti -- Replacement humans / Gabriele Schwab -- Cloning, cultures, and the social injustices of homogeneities / Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg -- The pursuit of perfection / Rose D. Parke, Christine Ward Gailey, Scott Coltrane, and M. Robin DiMatteo -- Cloning the physician / Philomena Essed -- Cloning disappearance, consuming fakes / Ackbar Abbas -- Marketing religion / Eileen Luhr -- Civilizing missions / Rebecca Kugel -- The Yanqui makeover / Toby Miller -- Twin enemies / Gabriele Schwab -- Dead ringer-knock off / Carole-Anne Tyler -- Destiny-eternity / Nancy Postero.

Language: English

Keywords: Kultursoziologie ; Klonierung ; Replikation ; Massenfertigung ; Konsumgesellschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Author information: Essed, Philomena 1955-

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Format: 1 online resource (215 p.)

ISBN: 94-012-0702-X

Series Statement: Thamyris intersecting: place, sex and race, no. 25

Content: 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.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , 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 / , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-420-3416-5

Language: English