If modern automation confided in the reproduction of the master model through a seamless copying of the same law, the ingression of the function of learning in automated systems has replaced the master governance with cybernetic principles of self-regulation and self-optimization. The reconfiguration of techno-capital forms of replication with and through information machines has turned relations of power and the struggles of gender, race, and class into replicants whose origin is a myth that perpetuates violence. No longer can the law of reproduction return to the same starting point. The reproductive machine of modern automation tended to run out of control, reaching the threshold of chaos and realizing forces of self-destruction everywhere. From neural networks to nanotechnology, replication secures eternity to the mutations of capital. Replication has demarcated an epochal reconfiguration of capital, whose consequences are still determining the epistemological explanation of what is to be human.
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