Biopunk Dystopias
Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction
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- Kiadó Liverpool University Press
- Megjelenés dátuma 2016. december 9.
- ISBN 9781781383766
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem279 oldal
- Méret 234x156 mm
- Súly 500 g
- Nyelv angol 0
Kategóriák
Rövid leírás:
Biopunk Dystopias analyses 21st century cultural anxieties and dystopian visions about the consequences of biotechnology, especially genetic engineering, as part of contemporary social reality.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
Biopunk Dystopias contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. The analysis deals with dystopian science fiction artifacts of different media from the year 2000 onwards that project a posthuman intervention into contemporary socio-political discourse based in liquid modernity in the cultural formation of biopunk. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet. As Rosi Braidotti argues, "there is a posthuman agreement that contemporary science and biotechnologies affect the very fibre and structure of the living and have altered dramatically our understanding of what counts as the basic frame of reference for the human today". The proposed book analyzes this alteration as directors, creators, authors, and artists from the field of science fiction extrapolate it from current trends.
'An important intervention into the ways sf studies is done - it is no longer even remotely credible to treat sf as just a literary genre - and the strengths of this book makes that argument more effectively than any polemic about the transmediality of sf.'
Mark Bould, University of the West of England
Tartalomjegyzék:
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Dystopia, Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Liquid Modernity
3. The Anthropocene, the Posthuman, and the Animal
4. Science, Family, and the Monstrous Progeny
5. Individuality, Choice, and Genetic Manipulation
6. The Utopian, the Dystopian, and the Heroic Deeds of One
7. 9/11 and the Wasted Lives of Posthuman Zombies
8. Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
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