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The vital illusion

By Jean , Witwer , Julia; Baudrillard

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780231506328, 0231506325
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
458 kB (468748 bytes)
Series
Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California Irvine
Pages
102\113
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Reality. Virtual reality. Cloning. PHILOSOPHY -- H

Description

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 the thesis that the arrival of the year 2000 could never take place because we could neither resolve nor leave behind our history. Read more...

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