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The Vital Illusion (The Wellek Library Lectures) Book
"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 subjectivity as he grapples with the complex issues that define our postmillennial world. What does the advent and proliferation of cloning mean for our sense of ourselves as human beings? What does the turn of the millennium say about our relation to time and history? What does the instantaneous, virtual realm of cyberspace do to reality? In The Vital Illusion -as always -Baudrillard leads his readers to some surprising conclusions. Baudrillard considers how human cloning -as well as the "cloning" of ideas and social identities -heralds an end … read more...
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