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Unveiling the Post-Human

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matos Alves, Artur
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Unveiling the Posthuman
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Posthuman Concepts: Placing the Posthuman
  • Visions of Humanity between the Posthuman and the Non-Human
  • Posthuman Rights: The Ethics of Alien Encounter
  • Reconceptualising Space, Place and Body: Telepresence and Locative Media in Art
  • Part II: Gender, Sex and Bodies in Cyberspace
  • Do We Really Die? Bodies in Cyberculture, Life and Social Existence after Death
  • Cyberspace and Subversion: The Creation of Culture in Steampunk and Body Modification Cyber-Communities
  • The Digital Body's Mantra: Man and Machine in Grand Junction by Maurice G. Dantec
  • Cyborgs in the Garden: Tales of Iden in Kage Baker's 'Company' Series
  • Pat Cadigan's Cyberfiction and Jessica Benjamin's 'Intersubjectivity'
  • A Gravelled Path: Historicizing Feminist Utopias/Dystopias
  • Feet, Silk and Sex: The Not So Secret World of Fetish Online
  • Part III: Fictions? Posthuman Societies and Cultures
  • Total Machine or Homelessness: The Tyranny of the Artificial and the Limits of Politics in the Posthuman Era
  • Orthodox Science Fiction and Fictional Worlds
  • Wrong Laughter: Laughing Away the Human in Richard Powers'
  • Retro-Future Societies in Woody Allen's Sleeper and Oldřich Lipský's Man in Outer Space
  • Part IV: Cybernarratives: Literature and Videogames
  • We See Cyborgs Differently: A Comparative Study between North American and Latin American Cyberpunk
  • The Writing Writer: Fictional Autobiography in Claudio Sanchez The Amory Wars
  • Quevedo and Góngora Fistfight in Virtual Heaven: Contemporary Cyber Poetry in Spanish
  • Godliness in Tad William's Otherland Series
  • 'Through Other Eyes': The Other as an Extension of the Self in Post-War Science Fiction
  • Canon and Contingency in Mass Effect