Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismIsn't it Byronic?They'd cloned Byron to give them a faculty advantage. Unicorp--or rather its shareholders--had decided to staff positions with people who had the best possible qualifications. [1] Faculty positions in, say, British Romanticism would be granted on a preferential basis to the Romantics themselves. Byron was to be the first such appointment. Enough of his hair was held in the Consolidated Archive to allow any number of attempts at cloning him. [2] There was talk of doing Augusta Leigh as a spousal appointment. Notes
1. The bioligism of this presumption is patently nostalgic, retrograde, and immoral. See The Identity Collective 2. We seek the immediate prohibition of cloning, on the grounds that it offends against the emergence, as inevitable as it is documentable, of our coming digital organism. Navigation |