The interiorized prosthesis collapses the body into self-replicating formula.

Evidence

But when one reaches a point of no return (deadend) in simulation, that is to say when the prosthesis goes deeper, is interiorized in, infiltrates the anonymous and micro-molecular heart of the body, as soon as it is imposed on the body itself as the “original” model, burning all the previous symbolic circuits, the only possible body the immutable repetition of the prosthesis, then it is the end of the body, of its history, and of its vicissitudes. The individual is no longer anything but a cancerous metastasis of its base formula. All the individuals produced through cloning individual X, are they anything other than a cancerous metastasis - the proliferation of the same cell such as occurs with cancer? — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 341

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘cancerous metastasis’ of the code is a biological echo of Baudrillard’s earlier notion of viral/epidemic simulation; for Jameson this maps onto late capitalism’s pathological replication of form. — connects to: A simulated God leaves the entire system a weightless self-referential simulacrum — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 18; The body becomes an anagram dispersed across wounds and automobile metallurgy — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 365

Broader Connections

• The body becomes an anagram dispersed across wounds and automobile metallurgy #expands (0.78) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 365
• A simulated God leaves the entire system a weightless self-referential simulacrum #expands (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 18