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  1. Representing post(human) enhancement technologies in twenty-first century US fiction
    Author: Laguarta-Bueno, Carmen
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different... more

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    "This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different chapters provide, from the double perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced approach of critical posthumanism, an overview of the narrative strategies used by the writers to explore the possibilities that biotechnology, digital technologies and cryonics open up to transcend our human limitations, while also warning their readers of their most nefarious consequences. Ultimately, the book puts forward the claim that even if the writers approach the subject from a variety of perspectives and using different narrative styles and techniques, they all share a critical posthumanist fear that an unrestrained and unquestioned use of technology for enhancement purposes may bring about disembodiment and dehumanization"--...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003276401; 1003276407; 9781000655339; 1000655334; 9781000655285; 1000655288
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    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature & culture
    Subjects: American fiction; Literature and technology; Human body and technology in literature; Posthumanism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
    Other subjects: Powers, Richard (1957-): Generosity; Eggers, Dave: Circle; DeLillo, Don: Zero K
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Representing post(human) enhancement technologies in twenty-first century US fiction
    Author: Laguarta-Bueno, Carmen
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

    Richard Powers's Generosity: An Enhancement (2009): A Metafictional Reflection on the Biotechnological Pursuit of Happiness -- When Utopia Meets Dystopia: Social Media Tools and Surveillance Devices in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) -- Don DeLillo's... more

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    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    Richard Powers's Generosity: An Enhancement (2009): A Metafictional Reflection on the Biotechnological Pursuit of Happiness -- When Utopia Meets Dystopia: Social Media Tools and Surveillance Devices in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) -- Don DeLillo's Zero K (2016): Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003276401; 1003276407; 9781000655339; 1000655334; 9781000655285; 1000655288
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    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature & culture
    Subjects: American fiction; Literature and technology; Human body and technology in literature; Posthumanism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
    Other subjects: Powers, Richard (1957-): Generosity; Eggers, Dave: Circle; DeLillo, Don: Zero K
    Scope: 1 online resource.
  3. Representing post(human) enhancement technologies in twenty-first century US fiction
    Author: Laguarta-Bueno, Carmen
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

    Richard Powers's Generosity: An Enhancement (2009): A Metafictional Reflection on the Biotechnological Pursuit of Happiness -- When Utopia Meets Dystopia: Social Media Tools and Surveillance Devices in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) -- Don DeLillo's... more

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    Richard Powers's Generosity: An Enhancement (2009): A Metafictional Reflection on the Biotechnological Pursuit of Happiness -- When Utopia Meets Dystopia: Social Media Tools and Surveillance Devices in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) -- Don DeLillo's Zero K (2016): Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003276401; 1003276407; 9781000655339; 1000655334; 9781000655285; 1000655288
    Other identifier:
    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature & culture
    Subjects: American fiction; Literature and technology; Human body and technology in literature; Posthumanism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
    Other subjects: Powers, Richard (1957-): Generosity; Eggers, Dave: Circle; DeLillo, Don: Zero K
    Scope: 1 online resource.