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This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of
the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet
instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to
universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material
realities, VanderMeer's work invites us to re-imagine human
subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically
unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological,
aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the
Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material
complexities of life in close relation to their ecological,
material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at
once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other
potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer's
work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing
the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become
radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful
bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic
engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in
the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre
studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and
digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally,
aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses
to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.
This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of
the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet
instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to
universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material
realities, VanderMeer's work invites us to re-imagine human
subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically
unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological,
aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the
Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material
complexities of life in close relation to their ecological,
material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at
once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other
potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer's
work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing
the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become
radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful
bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic
engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in
the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre
studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and
digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally,
aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses
to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.
This book features influential scholarly research and technical
contributions, professional trajectories, disciplinary shifts,
personal insights, and a combination of these from a group of
remarkable women within mechanical engineering. Combined, these
chapters tell an important story about the dynamic field of
mechanical engineering in the areas of energy and the environment,
as seen from the perspective of some of its most extraordinary
women scientists and engineers. The volume shares with the Women in
Engineering and Science Series the primary aim of documenting and
raising awareness of the valuable, multi-faceted contributions of
women engineers and scientists, past and present, to these areas.
Women in mechanical engineering and energy and the environment are
historically relevant and continue to lead these fields as
passionate risk takers, entrepreneurs, innovators, educators, and
researchers. Chapter authors are members of the National Academies,
winners of major awards and recognition that include Presidential
Medals, as well as SWE, SAE, ASME, ASEE and IEEE Award winners and
Fellows.Â
Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction
examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital
cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics
and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the
hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in
translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext
fiction. These literary experiments with early digital cultures
from the 1990s comparatively retrace and speculate on the digital's
transformative influence on prior understandings of the human, of
social lives, and of individuals' relations to material lifeworlds,
exploring the consequences of the apparent plasticity of the
boundaries of the human, particularly for women, subaltern
subjects, and others already considered liminally human. As these
texts query the digital technics entering into textual practices,
subjectivity, spatial practices and social networks, lived space,
nation, and economic circulation, they reconceive their own
literary print narrative methods and material modes of circulation
in order to elaborate on unnoticed potentialities and limits of
digital technics, providing a crucial means to reorient digital
cultures of the present.
Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction
examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital
cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics
and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the
hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in
translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext
fiction. These literary experiments with early digital cultures
from the 1990s comparatively retrace and speculate on the digital's
transformative influence on prior understandings of the human, of
social lives, and of individuals' relations to material lifeworlds,
exploring the consequences of the apparent plasticity of the
boundaries of the human, particularly for women, subaltern
subjects, and others already considered liminally human. As these
texts query the digital technics entering into textual practices,
subjectivity, spatial practices and social networks, lived space,
nation, and economic circulation, they reconceive their own
literary print narrative methods and material modes of circulation
in order to elaborate on unnoticed potentialities and limits of
digital technics, providing a crucial means to reorient digital
cultures of the present.
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