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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • Twin EnemiesDead Ringer
  • Knock Off; Destiny
  • Eternity; The Contributors.