Aesthetic Post Humanism: The Copies without Original of the Pop Culture Library
Abstract
The phrase “copy without original†means the denial of an absolute beginning and of an original creative mind. Instead of originator, the postmodern writer passes for scribe, bricoleur, in script or, writing instance. Repetition without difference applies to a precedent which is itself simulacrum. Whereas mannerism multiplied an original into copies that emptied it out of meaning through mechanical repetition, the technologies producing CDs knows nothing about origin. Which of the identical CDs is the original one? The present paper is an attempt to fathom out an answer.
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Keywords: Technology, Repetition, Simulacrum, Post humanism.
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