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The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics - Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics - Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
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This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism
as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen
mainstream audiences embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile
there has been increasing concern surrounding human enhancement
technologies, with the techno-scientific movement of Transhumanism
arguing that it is time humans took active control of their
evolution. Utilising Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome
as a non-hierarchical system of knowledge to conceptualize the
superhero narrative in terms of its political, social and aesthetic
relations to the history of human technological enhancement, this
book draws upon a diverse range of texts to explore the way in
which the posthuman has been represented in superhero comics, while
simultaneously highlighting its shared historical development with
Post/Humanist critical theory and the material techno-scientific
practices of Transhumanism.
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