Living in technical legality : science fiction and law as technology /

Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tranter, Kieran (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
Temas:
Technology and law.
Science and law.
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Law in literature.
Technology in literature.
Technologie et droit.
Sciences et droit.
Droit dans la littérature.
Technologie dans la littérature.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Science fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Technical legality. From law and technology to law as technology
  • Dune, modern law and the alchemy of death and time
  • Battlestar Galactica, technology and life
  • Part II. Living in technical legality. Xenogenesis and the technical legal subject
  • The Doctor and technical lawyering
  • Mad Max and mapping the monsters in the networks
  • Deserts and technical legality.

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