Cancer is the pathological form of the code’s self-redundancy.

Evidence

It is useless to ask oneself if cancer is an illness of the capitalist age. It is in effect the illness that controls all contemporary pathology, because it is the very form of the virulence of the code: an exacerbated redundancy of the same signals, an exacerbated redundancy of the same cells. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 343

Categorization

• SHARE: A striking single-image claim — cancer as the biological signature of the simulated code, not a disease of the capitalist age per se — worth sharing with anyone interested in theory-and-biology overlaps.
• XREF: connects to: Cancer resists the informational code’s order like the masses resist social structure — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 345

Broader Connections

• Cancer resists the informational code’s order like the masses resist social structure #complicates (0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 345