baudrillard_-_the_vital_illusion1

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1、ColumbiaUniversityPressPublishersSinceNewYorkChichester,WestSussexCopyright©ColumbiaUniversityPressAllrightsreservedLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataBaudrillard,Jean.Thevitalillusion/JeanBaudrillard;editedbyJuliaWitwer.p.cm—(WellekLibrarylectures)I

2、ncludesindex.isbn–––.Reality..Virtualreality..Cloning.I.Witwer,Julia.II.Title.III.WellekLibrarylecturesattheUniversityofCaliforniaIrving.BD.B—dc–CaseboundeditionsofColumbiaUniversityPressbooksareprintedonpermanentanddurableacid-freep

3、aper.PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaDesignedbyAudreySmithcThispageintentionallyleftblankcontents1.TheFinalSolution:CloningBeyondtheHumanandInhuman2.TheMillennium,orTheSuspenseoftheYear3.TheMurderoftheRealNotesIndexTheVitalIllusionThispageinten

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TheFinalSolution:CloningBeyondtheHumanandInhumanThispageintentionallyleftblankThequestionconcerningcloningisthequestionofimmortality.Weallwantimmortality.Itisourultimatefan-tasy,afantasythatisalsoatworkinallofourmodernsci-encesandtechnologies—atwork,

5、forexample,inthedeepfreezeofcryonicsuspensionandincloninginallitsmani-festations.Themostnotoriousexampleofcryonicsuspensionis—naturally—WaltDisney,buthe,atleast,beingdestinedforresurrection,issaidtohavebeenfrozenwhole,inhis“integrity.”Therearemoreanomaloussituationstod

6、ay.Nowadays,inPhoenix,Arizona(thepredestinedsiteforResurrection),onlytheheadsarefrozen,becauseit’sfromthecellsofthebrain—regardedasthenucleusofindividualbeing—thatresearchershopetoreconstitutethedeceasedintheirbodilywholeness.(Onecan’thelpbutwonderwhytheydon’t,inthatca

7、se,simplypreserveasinglecelloraDNAmolecule.)thefinalsolutionTocomplementtheseheadswithoutbodies:OntheothersideoftheAtlanticOcean,headlessfrogsandmicearebeingclonedinprivatelaboratories,inpreparationforthecloningofheadlesshumanbodiesthatwillserveasreservoirsfororgandona

8、tion.Whybodieswithoutheads?Astheheadisconsideredthesiteofconsciousness,itisthoughtthatbodieswithheadswouldposeethical