Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
|
Buy Now
Biopunk Dystopias - Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,301
Discovery Miles 13 010
|
|
Biopunk Dystopias - Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 56
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. 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
sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting
discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that
decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that
this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the
form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the
1980s. The analysis deals with dystopian science fiction artifacts
of different media from the year 2000 onwards that project a
posthuman intervention into contemporary socio-political discourse
based in liquid modernity in the cultural formation of biopunk.
Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to
criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a
future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its
path, or else destroy all life on this planet. As Rosi Braidotti
argues, "there is a posthuman agreement that contemporary science
and biotechnologies affect the very fibre and structure of the
living and have altered dramatically our understanding of what
counts as the basic frame of reference for the human today". The
proposed book analyzes this alteration as directors, creators,
authors, and artists from the field of science fiction extrapolate
it from current trends.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.