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Alien Chic - Posthumanism and the Other Within (Paperback, New Ed)
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Alien Chic - Posthumanism and the Other Within (Paperback, New Ed)
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Why have we fallen in love with aliens? Alien Chic provides a
cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking ourselves why
our attitudes to aliens have shifted from fear to affection, and
what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others.
Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens, inscribed in
films such as The War of the Worlds , Mars Attacks! , Mission to
Mars and Independence Day ; and how thinkers such as Descartes,
Barthes, Freud, Lyotard and Derrida have conceptualised what it
means to be human (and post-human). Alien Chic examines the the
concept of posthumanism in an age when the lines between what is
human and what is non-human are increasingly blurred by advances in
science and technology, for example genetic cloning and
engineering, and the development of AI and cyborgs. Questioning
whether our current embracing of all things 'alien' - in the form
of extraterrestrial gadgets or abduction narratives, for instance -
stems from a desire to reaffirm ourselves as 'human', this is an
original and thought-provoking contribution to the study of
posthumanism.
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