Barbie Contra Finitude

[...]Barbieland is a realm of innocence and purity, where Barbies lead immortal lives with a jovial, ever-same tranquility. Once death has been labeled as the all-encompassing source of human power, freedom becomes a matter of enlarging a natural potential that is already contained within ourselves. Badiou remarks: “Death is that whereby, beyond the derisory being-multiple of living individuals, the existence of life affirms itself. If we refuse to believe in the permanence of the structure of death, a different affective response is provoked than the one that feels satisfied at the natural freedom of mortal bodies.