Bodies of Tomorrow : : Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction / / Sherryl Vint.
Anxieties about embodiment and posthumanism have always found an outlet in the science fiction of the day. In Bodies of Tomorrow, Sherryl Vint argues for a new model of an ethical and embodied posthuman subject through close readings of the works of Gwyneth Jones, Octavia Butler, Iain M. Banks, Will...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Problematic Selves and Unexpected Others
- 1. Gwyneth Jones: The World of the Body and the Body of the World
- 2. Octavia Butler: Be(com)ing Human
- 3. Iain M. Banks: The Culture-al Body
- 4. Cyberpunk: Return of the Repressed Body
- 5. Raphael Carter: The Fall into Meat
- 6. Jack Womack and Neal Stephenson: The World and the Text and the World in the Text
- Conclusion: Towards an Ethical Posthumanism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index