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Posthuman folklore /
"Can a monkey own a selfie? Can a chimp use habeas corpus to sue for freedom? Can androids be citizens? Increasingly, such difficult questions have moved from the realm of science fiction into the realm of everyday life, and scholars and laypeople alike are struggling to find ways to grasp new...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : posthumans and us
- part 1. The conscious planet. Folklore beyond the human : toward a trans-special understanding of culture, communication, and aesthetics
- The ape that captured time : folklore, narrative, and the human-animal divide
- Do animals have souls? Mythologies and worldviews on the concept of personhood
- You sexy beast : animals and sexuality in western discourse
- part 2. Becoming cyborg. Beatboxing, mashups, and cyborg identity : folk music for the twenty-first century
- Netizens, revolutions, and the inalienable right to the internet
- part 3. Us and them: re-imagining ontology in the cyborg age. Ghost stories from the uncanny valley : androids, souls, and the future of being haunted
- New myths for modern times : changing ontologies and the green-skinned other
- When your BFF is an AI : artificial intelligence as folk
- Conclusion : being after being human, a how-to guide.