Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology, Daniel Dinello

Автор: Lake Christina Bieber
Название: Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood
ISBN: 0268022364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268022365
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: "Prophets of the Posthuman" provides a fresh and original reading of fictional narratives that raise the question of what it means to be human in the face of rapidly developing bioenhancement technologies. Christina Bieber Lake argues that works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walker Percy, Flannery O`Connor, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Marilynne Robinson, Raymond Carver, James Tiptree, Jr., and Margaret Atwood must be reevaluated in light of their contributions to larger ethical questions. Drawing on a wide range of sources in philosophical and theological ethics, Lake argues that these writers share a commitment to maintaining a category of personhood more meaningful than that allowed by utilitarian ethics. "Prophets of the Posthuman "insists that because technology can never ask whether we should do something that we have the power to do, literature must step into that role.Each of the chapters of this interdisciplinary study sets up a typical ethical scenario regarding human enhancement technology and then illustrates how a work of fiction uniquely speaks to that scenario, exposing a realm of human motivations that might otherwise be overlooked or simplified. Through the vision of the writers she discusses, Lake uncovers a deep critique of the ascendancy of personal autonomy as America s most cherished value. This ascendancy, coupled with technology s glamorous promises of happiness, helps to shape a utilitarian view of persons that makes responsible ethical behavior toward one another almost impossible. "Prophets of the Posthuman" charts the essential role that literature must play in the continuing conversation of what it means to be human in a posthuman world."As we attempt to make sense of the technologically accelerated and `enhanced` world in which we find ourselves, Christina Bieber Lake provides incisive analysis of contemporary encroachments upon our common humanity. She demonstrates how centrally significant the inexorable march of science to know and do whatever it can will be to our individual and collective sense of self." Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University"

Автор: Boulter Jonathan
Название: Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett`s Short Prose
ISBN: 1474430260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474430265
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett`s presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.

Автор: Ruben Borg
Название: Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite
ISBN: 9004390340 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004390348
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: In Fantasies of Self-Mourning Ruben Borg describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism. The book’s central claim is that modernism invents the posthuman as a way to think through the contradictions of its historical moment. Borg develops a posthumanist critique of the concept of organic life based on comparative readings of Pirandello, Woolf, Beckett, and Flann O’Brien, alongside discussions of Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker, Bela Tarr, Ridley Scott and Mamoru Oshii. The argument draws together a cluster of modernist narratives that contemplate the separation of a cybernetic eye from a human body—or call for a tearing up of the body understood as a discrete organic unit capable of synthesizing desire and sense perception.

Автор: Lillvis Kristen
Название: Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination
ISBN: 0820351229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820351223
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Monáe. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis supplements historically situated conceptions of blackness with imaginative projections of black futures. This theoretical approach allows her to acknowledge the importance of history without positing a purely historical origin for black identities.The authors considered in this book set their stories in the past yet use their characters, particularly women characters, to show how the potential inherent in the future can inspire black authority and resistance. Lillvis introduces the term “posthuman blackness” to describe the empowered subjectivities black women and men develop through their simultaneous existence within past, present, and future temporalities.This project draws on posthuman theory – an area of study that examines the disrupted unities between biology and technology, the self and the outer world, and, most important for this project, history and potentiality – in its readings of a variety of imaginative works, including works of historical fiction such as Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Morrison’s Beloved. Reading neo–slave narratives through posthuman theory reveals black identity and culture as temporally flexible, based in the potential of what is to come and the history of what has occurred.

Автор: Jonathan Boulter
Название: Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett`s Short Prose
ISBN: 1474430252 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474430258
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett`s presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.

Автор: Lillvis, Kristen
Название: Posthuman blackness and the black female imagination
ISBN: 0820356867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820356860
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Описание: Examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Janelle Monae. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis supplements historically situated conceptions of blackness with imaginative projections of black futures.

Название: Mapping the Posthuman
ISBN: 1032334614 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032334615
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Emily McAvan
Название: Postsecular Fiction in the 21st Century: Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman
ISBN: 1350280372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350280373
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Описание: What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this century’s most significant writers, includingMargaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Mohsin Hamid, Michael Chabon, Howard Jacobson and Don DeLillo, Postsecular Fiction in the 21st Century: Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman argues that contemporary social and cultural forms, most especially those of 21st century literature, are marked by what Emily McAvan calls a material sacred. Placing Christian, Jewish and Muslim writers in conversation with the new materialisms, this book shows how secular and sacred mix unpredictably in contemporary writing. In this important contribution to the understanding of religion, materialism and literature, McAvan maps new territory, arguing that the material sacred shows us that the human and non-human, the divine and the profane, have been interwoven from the start.

Автор: Defalco, Amelia (professor Of Contemporary Literature, Associate Professor, University Of Leeds)
Название: Curious kin in fictions of posthuman care
ISBN: 0192886126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192886125
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Автор: Lau, Carolyn
Название: Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard
ISBN: 1032188146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032188140
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Автор: Wiegandt Kai
Название: J.M. Coetzee`s Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form
ISBN: 3030293084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030293086
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Ideas of the human that stress language use, reason, self-consciousness, autonomy and God-likeness are revised in his novels via a `poetic of testing` which pits intertextually referenced ideas against each other in polyphonic narratives.

Автор: Wiegandt Kai
Название: J.M. Coetzee`s Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form
ISBN: 303029305X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030293055
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Описание: This study argues that the most consistent concern in Coetzee`s oeuvre is the question of what makes us human. Ideas of the human that stress language-use, reason, self-consciousness, autonomy and God-likeness are revised in his novels via a `poetic of testing` which pits intertextually-referenced ideas against each other in polyphonic narratives.