5. Genetic Impersonation and the Improvisation of Kinship: Gattaca’s Queer Visions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: Technologies of Imitation and the Genetic Imaginary 1
6. PART 1. Sameness Ad Infinitum
7. 1. The Hell of the Same: Cloning, Baudrillard, and the Queering of Biology 19
8. 2. She Is Not Herself: The Deviant Relations of Alien: Resurrection 36
9. 3. Screening the Gene: Femininity as Code in Species 66
10. PART 2. Imitations of Life
11. 4. Cloning as Biomimicry 95
12. 5. Genetic Impersonation and the Improvisation of Kinship: Gattaca’s Queer Visions 113
13. 6. The Uncanny Architectures of Intimacy in Code 46 137
14. PART 3. Stairway to Heaven
15. 7. Cut-and-Paste Bodies: The Shock of Genetic Simulation 179
16. 8. Leading Across the In-Between: Transductive Cinema in Teknolust 195
17. 9. Enacting the Gene: The Animation of Science in Genetic Admiration 225
18. Afterword: Double Take, Déjà Vu 257
19. Notes 273
20. Bibliography 287
21. Filmography 303
22. Index 307