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The human reimagined : posthumanism in Russia /

The articles featured in The Human Reimagined examine the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and society.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McQuillen, Colleen, 1972- (Editor ), Vaingurt, Julia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018.
Colección:Cultural revolutions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Critical posthumanism ; Posthumanism in Russia
  • Questions of ethics and alterity. Our posthuman past: subjectivity, history and utopia in late-Soviet science fiction / Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University ; Digressions in progress: posthuman loneliness and the will to play in the work of the Strugatsky Brothers / Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Humans, animals, machines: scenarios of raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse / Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan
  • Natural, built, and imagined environments. Environmentalism and the man of the future: discursive practices in the 1970s / Colleen McQuillen, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Daedalus and the Cyborg: human-machine hybridity in late-Soviet design / Diana Kurkovsky, West European University at St. Petersburg ; Some entropy in your tea: notes on the ontopoetics of artificial intelligence / Alex Anikina, Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Technologies of the self. Romantic aesthetics and cybernetic fiction / Jacob Emery, Indiana University ; Writing and technology: writing the self in "real time" / Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College ; Modes of perception in transmodal fiction: new Russian subjectivity / Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Politics and social action. Nothing but mammals: post-Soviet sexuality after the end of history / Trevor Wilson, University of Pittsburgh ; Postsocialist Platonov: the question of humanism and the new Russian left / Jonathan Brooks Platt, University of Pittsburgh
  • Afterword / Keti Chukhrov, an interview by Alina Kotova about Love Machines.