英文摘要 |
On July 5, 1996, the Roslin Institute in Scotland made cloning an issue of technological reality. Ten years later, contemporary English novelist Kazuo Ishiguro made human cloning a hot issue of moral reality. This paper attempts to discuss controversies of biopolitics as biotechnology becomes an actuality and life forms become commodity. By resorting to Foucault’s and Agamben’s examination of the mechanism of letting live and letting die and Nikolas Rose’s indication of the politics of risk as materialized in the commodification of biotechonology, this paper attempts to land discussion of biopolitics on the ground of Ishiguro’s world of cloning. This paper argues that the human cloning in the world of fiction provide us with the chance to examine the makings of the human, and more importantly, the inhuman. Ishiguro’s patrol world of human cloning visualizes practices of biotechnology in their inclination to transform life into mechanical, manufacturable and replicable being that is to be easilymade, tailor-made and easily-forsaken. While the possibility of human cloning enriches the theoretical base of biopolitics, it reveals a new domain of biocitizenship in which life could be prolonged at the price of sacrificing others. The brave new world of biopolitics is thus materialized at the fictional world of human cloning where life is preserved in an economy of barbarity in which there is nowhere to run. |