Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction - Living on the Edge of Burnout (Hardcover)

Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction. Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics, intensification, resilience, and accelerationism. The first chapters examine the political possibilities of cyberpunk as a genre of science fiction and introduce one kind of neoliberal subject, the self-monitoring cyborg. These are individuals who join fitness/health tracking devices and applications to their body to "self-cultivate". Here, Alphin presents concrete examples of how fitness trackers are a strategy of neoliberal governmentality under the guise of self-cultivation. Moving away from Foucault's biopolitics to themes of intensity and resilience, Alphin draws largely from William Gibson's Neuromancer, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, along with the film Blade Runner to problematize notions of neoliberal resilience. Alphin returns to biopolitics, intensity, and resilience, connecting these themes to accelerationism as she engages with biohacker discourses. Here she argues that a biohacker is, in part, an intensification of the self-monitoring cyborg and accelerationism is in the end another form of resilience. Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is an invaluable resource for those interested in security studies, political sociology, biopolitics, critical IR theory, political theory, cultural studies, and literary theory.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Caroline Alphin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	136
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-49099-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-367-49099-4
Barcode:	9780367490997

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