Ethics for the Future : : Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction / / 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 simu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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