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Clones, Fakes and Posthumans : Cultures of Replication.

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 bio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Essed, Philomena, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012.
Colección:Thamyris intersecting ; 25,
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (215 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789401207027
940120702X