Fantasies of Self-Mourning : : Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite / / Ruben Borg.
In Fantasies of Self-Mourning Ruben Borg describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism. The book’s central claim is that modernism invents the posthuman as a way to think through the contradictions of its historical moment. Borg develops a posthumanist critiq...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden,, Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Posthumanisms
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Posthuman Modernism
- A History of Narcissistic Wounds
- The Apocalyptic Chronotope
- Thinking Historicity with Trees
- Funny Being Dead! Tragic and Comic Laughter
- Conclusion: Passivity of the Eye.