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Whereas, according to Baudrillard, meiotic sex – involving what he quaintly terms “otherness”[210] – inevitably allows the possibility of heterogeneity, mechanical reproduction implies the ever more perfect production of exact copies: “the Hell of the same” (TE 113-124). “Xerox and infinity.” (TE bigblack tits 51-59) Properly speaking, we might say, sexual reproduction is not reproduction at all; true reproduction – bigblack tits the production of copies supposedly identical in every respect – is possible only via the intervention of technical machines. As Benjamin had understood, mass production – the avatar of Baudrillard’s second order – introduces this possibility, but, for Baudrillard, its technologies are merely a pale anticipation of the horrors of homogeneity made available by contemporary biotechnology. “Benjamin was writing in the industrial era: by then technology was a gigantic prosthesis governing the generation of identical objects and images which there was no longer any way of distinguishing from one another, but it was as yet impossible to foresee the technological sophistication of our own era, which has made it possible to generate identical beings, without any means of returning to an original.”(TE
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