The vital illusion
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Aren't we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjec.Abstract: Considers how human cloning heralds an end to sex and death and the divagations of living by instituting a realm of the Same, beyond the struggles of individuation. The author also puts forward thethesis that the arrival of the year 2000 could never take place because we could neither resolve nor leave behind our history.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Baudrillard
Jean
Julia
Witwer - Language
- English
- Series
- Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California Irvine
- ISBN
- 9780231506328
- Release date
- 2000
