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Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (Hardcover)
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Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
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Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative
fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life
through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we
think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that
neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new
biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and
politically respond to a distinctive twenty-first-century
biopolitics. This book theorizes how biotechnology intervenes in
the very processes of biological function, reshaping life itself to
serve economic ends. Linking fictional texts with material
examples, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative
Fiction shows how these practices are linked to new modes of
exploitative economic relations that cannot be redressed by human
rights. It concludes with a posthumanist reframing of the value of
life that grounds itself elsewhere than in capitalist logics, a
vision that, in a Covid age, might become fundamental to a new
politics of ecological relations.
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