Ethics for the Future : : Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction / / Stephanie Bender.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• Funder: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
• VerfasserIn: Bender, Stephanie,
• Author: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 288
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Ethics for the Future through Fiction --; 3 Future World Ecologies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 (2017) and James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) --; 4 Transhumanist Futures: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) and Wally Pfister’s Transcendence (2014) --; 5 Futuristic Digital Neoliberalism: Spike Jonze’s Her (2013) and Dave Eggers’s The Circle (2013) --; 6 Biopolitics of the Future: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2006) and Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016) --; 7 More than Human?: Threats of AI in Dennis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina (2014) --; 8 Posthumanist Futures: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy (2003, 2006, 2013) and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009) --; 9 Contemporary Imaginaries of the Future --; Works Cited
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839468203; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319186; 9783111318264; 9783111024950
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839468203?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephanie Bender.

Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological catastrophe, digitalisation and biotechnology. She proposes that fiction and its modes of aesthetic simulation and emotional engagement offer a different way of knowing and judging possible futures. From a critical posthumanist angle, she discusses works ranging from Don DeLillo's Zero K (2017) and Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013) to Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140, Avatar (2009), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017) among many others.