Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Gerald Alva Miller Jr., Gerald Alva Miller Jr, Jr. Miller, Gerald Alva

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Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-12-05
Mått140 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Antal sidor238
Upplaga2012
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137262851

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Introduction The Genre of the Non-Place: Science Fiction as Critical Theory 1. Variables of the Human: Gender and the Programmable Subject in Samuel R. Delany's Triton 2. The Human as Desiring Machine: Anime Explorations of Disembodiment and Evolution 3. The Eversion of the Virtual: Postmodernity and Control Societies in William Gibson's Science Fictions of the Present 4. The Spectacle of Memory: Realism, Narrative, and Time Travel Cinema Conclusion Beyond the Human: Ontogenesis, Technology, and the Posthuman in Kubrick and Clarke's 2001