Cloning replaces parent figures with a matrix of code

Evidence

The Father and the Mother have disappeared, not in the service of an aleatory liberty of the subject, but in the service of a matrix called code. No more mother, no more father: a matrix. And it is the matrix, that of the genetic code, that now infinitely “gives birth” based on a functional mode purged of all aleatory sexuality. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 327

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the matrix as the de-sexed, de-figured generative principle replacing parentage.
• XREF: Echoes Lacan’s symbolic order overridden by the code; also relates to Jameson’s postmodern ‘death of the subject’. — connects to: A clone will never be identical because the code cannot master its own process — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 347

Broader Connections

• A clone will never be identical because the code cannot master its own process #corroborates (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 347