Hollywood Reproductions: Mothers, Clones, and Aliens

摘要: The mother always is more than one being alone: if there was no second in her, she would not be a mother. This peculiarity the condition of human reproduction and provokes desires for repulsion symbiosis. Other types bear less biased connotations, when divides itself (like cell), original produces several identical copies (a stamp, negative) or by mirror image like/identical double created case DNA): none these modes encloses other, never are two forming unity. Starting industrialised nations more-than-unity child has been continually displaced since 1960s, sexual politics, medical techniques new cultural icons: pill, first artificial insemination, IVF surrogate motherhood were accompanied pictures illustrating re-editing disentanglement sexuality pregnancy, biological social parenthood as well that child. On Lennart Nilsson’s famous photograph fetus (1965, fig. 1) floating front dark background like outer space disappeared, artist renders visible unborn life this icon does only reappear women-free zones Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssee (1968, 2), on posters anti-abortionists (anti-pro-choicers), but could regarded an insignia those western political juridical discourses, which have steadily reinforcing rights against its her duties towards it respectively society ever since.