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Exploring the Limits of the Human Through Science Fiction
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Artikel-Nr:
9781349442348
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.12.2012
Seiten:
238
Autor:
Gerald Alva Miller Jr
Gewicht:
322 g
Format:
216x140x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. is currently an English Instructor at Alamance Community College.
Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.
Introduction The Genre of the Non-Place: Science Fiction as Critical Theory 1. Variables of the Human: Gender and the Programmable Subject in Samuel R. Delany's Triton 2. The Human as Desiring Machine: Anime Explorations of Disembodiment and Evolution 3. The Eversion of the Virtual: Postmodernity and Control Societies in William Gibson's Science Fictions of the Present 4. The Spectacle of Memory: Realism, Narrative, and Time Travel Cinema Conclusion Beyond the Human: Ontogenesis, Technology, and the Posthuman in Kubrick and Clarke's 2001