Biopunk dystopias : : genetic engineering, society, and science fiction / / Lars Schmeink.
'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 so...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.