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Postmodern Social Simulation And Alienation Through ‘Cloning’ In A Number
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Postmodern Social Simulation And Alienation Through ‘Cloning’ In A Number
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
This article focuses on Jean Baudrillard’s tenets in analyzing postmodern social simulation in Caryl Churchill’s A Number. In this play ‘cloning’ becomes a final solution provided by technology for subjects living in hyperreal circumstances that cause the subject’s alienated identity in postmodern society. The play echoes the author’s attitude towards scientific evolution that is the result of cloning, and its impact on social and moral values and relationships. It also explores the influence of technology in the posthuman age in A Number. The introduction of technologies in society is something that should be questioned and tested not only to prove the theories, but to move forward into new potential realities; hyperreality through technology and its impact on postmodern society will be well-traced in A Number. B1 and B2 are the main characters of A Number that suffer from missing their identity. They leave in a hyperreal...
