The Culture of the Copy/ Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimilies Schwartz,Hillel

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Vanishing Twins
19
Identical twins are creatures ol a terrible ambiguity, lor they com
promise the values we place upon the individual even as they promise
what we so desperatelv want: laithful companionship, mutual
understanding. I he vanishing twin is our solution and absolution.
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Doppelgiingers
49
Siamesed twins are our horror stories, in bondage to likeness;
thev remind us ol tatelul Doppelgiingers Irom whom we can never be
separated till death do us part. We minister to these doubles
In Irving to restore singidaritv, the wholeness that is dillerence.
III
Self-portraits
89
Yet our hunger for likeness, driven by an economic system, a social
fabric, and sets of technologies which profit by making the
similar seem remarkable, leads us to ever-more sophisticated semblances
which we are hard pressed to distinguish one from the other.
IV
Second Nature
143
Nor are we now so clear about the boundaries between ourselves
and the rest of the animal world, especially where those animals who
speak our speeches and act our acts appear to take on the best
or most striking of human qualities.
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Seeing Double
175
Where, then, are our own skills at disguise, decoy, and
deception leading us?
VI
Ditto
211
Toward anticipations that the copy will transcend the original
VII
Once More, with Feeling
259
and toward a faith in rccnactnicnt and replication as means to
arrive at the truth.
VIII
Discernment
321
in consequence, we confront on every hori/on problems of
duplicity and virtuality, which must be resolved before we can reclaim
or re-create a persuasive notion of authenticity.