South Korean bio-artist Soyo Lee makes an analogy between South Korea’s mass production of the moon cactus—grafted to create a colorful yet short-lived ornamental plant for European and American consumers—and the Soviet doctor Vladimir Demikhov’s notorious creation of two-headed dogs. In reflecting on the contiguous but abyssal space between plant grafting and animal organ transplantation, the epilogue reiterates this book’s search for a dehumanist feminist mnemonics of our time—when human and animal mind-bodies (as well as plants and other life forms) are cut, displaced, reproduced, and disposed of in the transnational circuits of advanced technology and neoliberal capitalism. The epilogue also notes this book’s performative-speculative writing on prosthetic memories and the reparative efforts to include affective ties among what appear to be problematic relations and affinities as a political and onto-epistemological response to affective neoliberal capitalism in a chimeracological world.
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