Author: Ollivier Dyens
Ollivier Dyens is the author of Metal and Flesh: The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over (Boston: MIT Press, 2001). He is assistant professor of French at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Cloning
Burning bright in the forest of the night Cloning: sword of Damocles of our planetary equilibrium, apple and snake of our impending forfeiture. Cloning: endless source of nightmarish scenarios, starting point of an anticipated end. Cloning: biology’s event horizon behind which everything tears, shatters, and vanishes forever. Rarely has a technology been so universally condemned. …