Clones, fakes and posthumans : : cultures and replication / / editors, Philomena Essed and Gabriele Schwab.

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 biotechnologi...

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Superior document:Thamyris intersecting: place, sex and race, no. 25
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Thamyris intersecting ; no. 25.
Physical Description:1 online resource (215 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Editors Clones, Fakes and Posthumans
  • Introduction: Cloning and Cultures of Replication / Philomena Essed and Gabriele Schwab
  • Homo Clonicus / Verena Stolcke
  • 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 / Ross 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
  • The Contributors / Editors Clones, Fakes and Posthumans.