The Stranger, September 14th, 2006
Identity Axiom
A Bite-Sized Play About Cloning by Annie Wagner
CLONING TECHNOLOGY may be complex, but the questions raised by cloning are elemental. In the context of genetic reduplication, "who am I?" and "why am I here?" take on a painfully literal significance. Metaphysical anxiety is rendered so obvious as to be almost banal. If I'm the original, do I have some sort of ontological privilege over my copies? If I'm a copy, how do I reconcile this knowledge with the conviction that I am special, that I am chosen, that I am unique? Am I a son of Adam and Eve, or a descendent of Dolly the she...
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