Cloning’s regression to asexual reproduction expresses a death drive

Evidence

What, if not a death drive, would push sexed beings to regress to a form of reproduction prior to sexuation (besides, isn’t it this form of scissiparity, this reproduction and proliferation through pure contiguity that is for us, in the depths of our imaginary, death and the death drive - what denies sexuality and wants to annihilate it, sexuality being the carrier of life, that is to say of a critical and mortal form of reproduction?) and that, at the same time, would push them metaphysically to deny all alterity, all alteration of the Same in order to aim solely for the perpetuation of an identity, a transparency of the genetic inscription no longer even subject to the vicissitudes of procreation? — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 325

Categorization

• XREF: Freudian death drive theory applied to technological reproduction; parallels the death of the social/real in simulation. — connects to: Death thoughts and physical sexuality suppress each other in a reciprocal loop — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 593; Cloning abolishes the mirror stage by eliminating all mediation and image — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 328; Cryopreservation transforms death into a reversible, purchasable process — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 384 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Cloning abolishes the mirror stage by eliminating all mediation and image #expands (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 328
• Death thoughts and physical sexuality suppress each other in a reciprocal loop #expands (0.82) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 593
• Cryopreservation transforms death into a reversible, purchasable process #expands (0.72) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 384