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This paper aims to suggest the posthuman bioethics for the futuristic sustainable world by analyzing clones’ biodystopian lives under the anthropocentric biopolitical system, when humans harvest the clones’ organs in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. The clone narrator Kathy resurrects the collective identity, affirming their innocent memories of childhood in Hailsham, though humans treat the life rights of clones unjustly and reproduce the neo-humanist subjectivities homogeneously. Kathy represents the process of attaining the posthuman subjectivity, as she celebrates the surviving spirit by enduring the life, recovers the vitality, and proposes the communal solidarity. Her vital awakening could be the positive offer, removing from their infrastructural consciousness that clones have to surrender to their fate passively. In this novel lifewriting is based on the relationality of human/clone and mind/body. As a fable for the humans, this novel suggests the vitalist posthuman bioethics, emphasizing on the coexistence with others, the communal solidarity, and the co-evolution in the zoe-geo-techno continuum. This novel suggests the vitalist posthuman ethics, emphasizing to embrace the non-human others and a life-oriented sense of community. Furthermore, Ishiguro shows that the rightless clones tries to do good, to choose the right way and to live in the surviving spirits within their predicaments. Clones choose to live as a decent human being and take on their mission voluntarily, even after finding out they are organ donors. Despite of their brief lives, they show the impressive ways of vibrant life. In conclusion, this novel would contribute to remind the readers of having the posthuman subjectivity that they should pursue the communal awareness, the zoe-centered sustainability and the human/nonhuman interconnectedness in the post-anthropocenntric vision.

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