Ethics for the Future : Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction /

Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological catastrophe, digitalisation and biotechnology. She proposes that fiction and its modes of aesthetic simu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bender, Stephanie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2023]
Colección:Edition Kulturwissenschaft.
Temas:
Ethics in literature.
Ethics in motion pictures.
Future, The, in literature.
Future, The, in motion pictures.
Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > History > 21st century.
Morale dans la littérature.
Morale au cinéma.
Futur dans la littérature.
Futur au cinéma.
Roman > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > Histoire > 21e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Future, The, in literature
Future, The, in motion pictures
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Challenging Times
  • Ethics for the Future: From Humanism to Posthumanism
  • Ethical Criticism in the 21st Century
  • Aesthetics for the Future: Popular Future Fictions
  • The Chapters
  • 2 Ethics for the Future through Fiction
  • A Difficult Heritage: Humanism and Beyond
  • New Ethics for a New Age: Hans Jonas
  • Deconstruction, Ethics, and the Anthropocene: Joanna Zylinska
  • Towards Posthumanist Ethics
  • Actual Worlds and Possible Futures in Fiction
  • Existing Ethical Approaches to Literature
  • Ethical Criticism in Film
  • Limitations of Existing Approaches
  • Future Ethical Criticism: Worlds in the Making
  • 3 Future World Ecologies: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 (2017) and James Cameron's Avatar (2009)
  • A Political World-Ecology Approach: Kim Stanley Robinson's NewYork 2140
  • New Realist Utopianism
  • Ethics through an Aesthetic Unity of Effect
  • The Capitalocene: Economy-Ecology
  • Political Organisation through Actor Networks
  • Back to "Nature" in James Cameron's Avatar
  • Effective Affection? Ethical Responses to the Fantastic
  • Ecologies without Nature
  • The Unobtainium of the Industrial-Military Complex
  • Are the Scientists also the Good Guys?
  • Can You See What Is Real?
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Transhumanist Futures: Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) and Wally Pfister's Transcendence (2014)
  • Transhumanist Ethics in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
  • Directing Viewers' Emotions
  • The End Times of the Earth's World Ecology Managed by Bureaucrats
  • Normative Humanity and Border Transgressions
  • The Scientific, Science Fiction, and Space
  • The Otherworld in Space: A Fusion of Science and Love
  • Philosophical Essentialism: Futuristic Technologies and The Humanin Wally Pfister's Transcendence
  • More than Black and White: Ambiguous Ethics and Aesthetics
  • Will as a Prototypical Representative of Transhumanist Thought
  • Technology as a New Form of Secular Spirituality
  • A Natural Techno-Spirituality
  • The Classical Substantivist View: Revolutionary Independence fromTechnology
  • The Resolution? Max as Middle Ground, Love as Reconciling Force
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Futuristic Digital Neoliberalism: Spike Jonze's Her (2013) and Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013)
  • The Self and the Other in Digital Neoliberalism: Relationshipsand Identities in Spike Jonze's Her
  • The Aesthetics of Digital Neoliberalism, the Self and the Other
  • A Digital Mimicking of Neoliberal Selfhood
  • Failed Romance: Meeting the Self instead of the Other
  • Selling Love
  • A Posthuman(ist) Possibility of an Other(world)
  • The Economy of Attention in Dave Eggers's The Circle
  • The Aesthetics of Warning
  • The Threat of a Digital Economy of Attention
  • Digital Capitalism and Transhumanism
  • The Individual Level: Computational Psychologies

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