Living in Technical Legality : : Science Fiction and Law as Technology / / Kieran Tranter.

A user’s guide to living within a technological culture and its technologised lawThrough detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television’s Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 6 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Living in Technical Legality
  • PART I TECHNICAL LEGALITY
  • 1 From Law and Technology to Law as Technology
  • 2 Dune, Modern Law, and the Alchemy of Death and Time
  • 3 Battlestar Galactica, Technology, and Life
  • PART II LIVING IN TECHNICAL LEGALITY
  • 4 Xenogenesis and the Technical Legal Subject
  • 5 The Doctor and Technical Lawyering
  • 6 Mad Max and Mapping the Monsters in the Networks
  • 7 Deserts and Technical Legality
  • Bibliography
  • Index