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Desire and Technology in Science Fiction and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Desire and Technology in Science Fiction and Beyond (Hardcover)
Series: TrueHeart Academic Bridging Disciplines, 3
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The concept of the 'desire for technology' originates with Jean
Baudrillard, the French postmodernist and high-tech social thinker.
Desire for Technology delves into this concept, seeking to
understand the relationship between technology and human desire in
science fiction and beyond. Academic disciplines have increasingly
sought to bridge the gap between human beings and technology.
Baudrillard points to three orders of simulacra to rethink the
objectivity of science and history, taking simulacra from the
Renaissance, through the industrial revolution, to the postmodern
era, corresponding to counterfeit, production, and simulation. This
title proposes three stages in the procession of science fiction.
Fantasy literature belongs to the beginning, science fiction to the
developing, and technological theory to the culminating stage: the
expansion of science fiction. A Promethean rebellion against God's
will announces the death of Nature, disclosing potential
technological disasters, and stimulating the building of a
human-centred technological utopia.
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