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  1. Biofictions
    literary and visual imagination in the age of biotechnology
    Author: Kucukalic, Lejla
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: 'biofiction,' 'bioimagination,' and 'biodiscourse' to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology. The book proposes a new interdisciplinary area of research that correlates... more

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    "Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: 'biofiction,' 'bioimagination,' and 'biodiscourse' to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology. The book proposes a new interdisciplinary area of research that correlates processes of genetics and literature, based on two critical approaches. One, drawing parallels between the genetic codes, human language, formal (binary) language and posthuman communication and the role of meaning and imagination in these forms of communication. Two, by defining "biofictions" as a critical scientific-artistic concept and as a corpus of texts that engage ideas and developments in molecular biology. Syncretic connection between biotechnology and literature is especially evident in an open science movement and a literary artistic genre of biopunk, discussed across chapters. The study includes well-known contemporary texts such as David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, that are re-contextualized as biofiction, it offers a re-reading of important but neglected novels such as Thomas Disch's Camp Concentration (1967) and it analyzes new visual texts such as the TV series Altered Carbon and Ghost in the Shell films. Based on these wide-ranging examples and new critical concepts, the book argues that coming up with possible alterations for the genetic code or intended traits for the organism is a discursive practice that brings into being bio-narratives that are both organic and literary"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9781003132325; 1003132324; 9781000441543; 1000441547; 9781000441574; 1000441571
    Series: Routledge focus on literature
    Subjects: Biotechnology in literature; Science fiction; Science fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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  2. Biopolitical futures in twenty-first-century speculative fiction
    Author: Vint, Sherryl
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Melbourne, VIC ; New Delhi ; Singapore

    "This book demonstrates how speculative fiction elucidates the ways the regime of epivitality enables the ongoing real subsumption of life by capital. At the same time, however, the fictions I analyze also provide imaginative resources to counteract... more

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    "This book demonstrates how speculative fiction elucidates the ways the regime of epivitality enables the ongoing real subsumption of life by capital. At the same time, however, the fictions I analyze also provide imaginative resources to counteract this regime's biopolitical sorting of life into valued and disposable configurations. The importance of articulating a liveable life outside of this logic is why this book is also a project of posthuman ethics. New biotechnological entities such as GMO animals created as research tools or immortal cell lines derived from human bodies are key exemplars of what I argue is the ongoing real subsumption of life by capital. Yet, as the chapters in this book will theorize, this real subsumption of life is pervasive and not simply embodied in these innovative products of biotechnology. In industries such as cryonics, IVF and surrogacy services, transplantation and other biological harvesting practices, synthetic biology, and clinical labor, subjects and objects, organic and manufactured beings, persons and things blur into one another as biology becomes caught up in projects of bioeconomic innovation, and as capital becomes interested in humans less for their capacity to provide labor-power and more for their capacity as biological entities"--

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781108839006
    Series: Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture
    Subjects: Speculative fiction; Biopolitics in literature; Bioethics in literature; Biotechnology in literature
    Other subjects: Array; Literary criticism
    Scope: ix, 271 Seiten
  3. Biopunk dystopias genetic engineering, society and science fiction
    Author: Schmeink, Lars
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    'Biopunk Dystopias' analyses 21st century cultural anxieties and dystopian visions about the consequences of biotechnology, especially genetic engineering, as part of contemporary social reality. more

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    'Biopunk Dystopias' analyses 21st century cultural anxieties and dystopian visions about the consequences of biotechnology, especially genetic engineering, as part of contemporary social reality.

     
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    ISBN: 9781786944115
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    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies
    Subjects: Science fiction; Biotechnology in literature
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  4. Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction
    consciousness and the posthuman
    Author: Haney, William S.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9789042019485; 9042019484
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    RVK Categories: EC 6745 ; HG 672
    Series: Consciousness, literature and the arts ; 02
    Subjects: Biotechnology in literature; Biotechnology; Consciousness; Cyborgs in literature; Mind and body; Science fiction
    Scope: X, 192 S, 22 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [178] - 186
  5. Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels
    Author: Johnston, Justin Omar
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing AG, Cham ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783030262570
    RVK Categories: HN 1331
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Ser.
    Subjects: Englisch; Roman; Posthumanismus; Biotechnologie <Motiv>; Fiction-21st century-History and criticism; Human body and technology in literature; Biotechnology in literature
    Other subjects: Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954-): Never let me go; Atwood, Margaret (1939-): Oryx and Crake; Sinha, Indra (1950-); Winterson, Jeanette (1959-)
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  6. Biopunk dystopias
    genetic engineering, society, and science fiction
    Author: Schmeink, Lars
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human... more

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    'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. The analysis deals with dystopian science fiction artifacts of different media from the year 2000 onwards that project a posthuman intervention into contemporary socio-political discourse based in liquid modernity in the cultural formation of biopunk. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet. As Rosi Braidotti argues, "there is a posthuman agreement that contemporary science and biotechnologies affect the very fibre and structure of the living and have altered dramatically our understanding of what counts as the basic frame of reference for the human today". The proposed book analyzes this alteration as directors, creators, authors, and artists from the field of science fiction extrapolate it from current trends

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781781383322
    RVK Categories: HN 1312 ; EC 6745 ; EC 5207 ; HU 1691
    Subjects: Biotechnology in literature; Science fiction; Science fiction ; 21st century ; History and criticism; Biotechnology in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 272 pages), digital, PDF file(s)
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  7. Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction
    consciousness and the posthuman
    Author: Haney, William S.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1423790804; 9781423790808
    RVK Categories: HG 672
    Series: Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 2
    Subjects: SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects; Gesellschaft; Biotechnology; Consciousness; Mind and body; Science fiction; Cyborgs in literature; Biotechnology in literature; Posthumanismus; Cyborg; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Bewusstsein; Bewusstsein <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 192 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-186) and index

    "Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. Presented here for the first time, the essential argument of this book is more than a warning; it gives a direction: far better to practice patience and develop pure consciousness and evolve into a higher human being than to fall prey to the Faustian temptations of biotechnological power. As argued throughout the book, each person must choose for him or herself between the technological extension of physical experience through mind, body and world on the one hand, and the natural powers of human consciousness on the other as a means to realize their ultimate vision."--BOOK JACKET.
  8. Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction
    consciousness and the posthuman
    Author: Haney, William S.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

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    ISBN: 9042019484; 9789042019485
    RVK Categories: HG 672
    Series: Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 2
    Subjects: Biotechnology in literature; Biotechnology; Consciousness; Cyborgs in literature; Mind and body; Science fiction; Posthumanismus; Cyborg; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Bewusstsein; Bewusstsein <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: x, 192 p
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  9. Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction
    consciousness and the posthuman
    Author: Haney, William S.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

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    ISBN: 9042019484; 9789042019485
    RVK Categories: HG 672
    Series: Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 2
    Subjects: Gesellschaft; Biotechnology in literature; Biotechnology; Consciousness; Cyborgs in literature; Mind and body; Science fiction; Posthumanismus; Cyborg; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Bewusstsein; Bewusstsein <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: x, 192 p
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  10. Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture
    Contributor: Karkulehto, Sanna (Publisher); Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (Publisher); Varis, Essi (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    "The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human,... more

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    "The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture - although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well"--

     
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    Contributor: Karkulehto, Sanna (Publisher); Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (Publisher); Varis, Essi (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9780429243042
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    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
    Subjects: Technology in literature; Virtual reality in literature; Biotechnology in literature; Humanism in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Biotechnologie <Motiv>; Literatur; Posthumanismus; Technologie <Motiv>; Virtuelle Realität <Motiv>; Ungeheuer
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 286 Seiten), Illustrationen
  11. Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    "The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human,... more

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    "The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture - although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well"--

     
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    ISBN: 0429243049; 0429512767; 0429516193; 0429519621; 9780429243042; 9780429512766; 9780429516191; 9780429519628
    Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    Subjects: Agent (Philosophie) dans la littérature; Biotechnologie dans la littérature; Humanisme dans la littérature; Réalité virtuelle dans la littérature; Technologie dans la littérature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Biotechnology in literature; Humanism in literature; Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism / Modern; Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature; Technology in literature; Virtual reality in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Biotechnology in literature; Humanism in literature; Technology in literature; Virtual reality in literature; Virtuelle Realität <Motiv>; Literatur; Posthumanismus; Technologie <Motiv>; Biotechnologie <Motiv>; Ungeheuer
    Other subjects: Electronic books; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Part 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading. 1. On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s) / Carole Guesse; 2. Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman Powers / Karoliina Lummaa; 3. Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects / Kaisa Kortekallio -- Part 2. Imagining Aliens and Monsters. 4. Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters / Essi Varis; 5. Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator / Jonne Arjoranta; 6 Wild Things Squeezed in the Closet: Monsters of Children's Literature as Nonhuman Others / Marleena Mustola and Sanna Karkulehto -- Part 3. Becoming with Animals. 7 Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Siebert's Angus / Mikko Keskinen; 8. Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts / Brad Bolman; 9. Reconfiguring Human and Nonhuman Animals in a Guiding Assemblage: Towards Posthumanist Conception of Disability / Hana Porkertová -- Part 4. Technological (Co- )Agencies. 10. Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-Anthropocentric Semiotics / Cléo Collomb and Samuel Goyet; 11. Journeys in Intensity: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower, and Counterplay in Minecraft / Marleena Huuhka; 12. Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman Agency / Patricia Flanagan and Raune Frankjær -- Part 5. Afterword: Unnarratable Matter? 13. Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material Ecocriticism / Juha Raipola
  12. Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture
    Contributor: Karkulehto, Sanna (HerausgeberIn); Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (HerausgeberIn); Varis, Essi (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    Part 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading. 1. On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s) / Carole Guesse; 2. Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman Powers / Karoliina Lummaa; 3.... more

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    Part 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading. 1. On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s) / Carole Guesse; 2. Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman Powers / Karoliina Lummaa; 3. Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects / Kaisa Kortekallio -- Part 2. Imagining Aliens and Monsters. 4. Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters / Essi Varis; 5. Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator / Jonne Arjoranta; 6 Wild Things Squeezed in the Closet: Monsters of Children's Literature as Nonhuman Others / Marleena Mustola and Sanna Karkulehto -- Part 3. Becoming with Animals. 7 Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Siebert's Angus / Mikko Keskinen; 8. Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts / Brad Bolman; 9. Reconfiguring Human and Nonhuman Animals in a Guiding Assemblage: Towards Posthumanist Conception of Disability / Hana Porkertová -- Part 4. Technological (Co- )Agencies. 10. Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-Anthropocentric Semiotics / Cléo Collomb and Samuel Goyet; 11. Journeys in Intensity: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower, and Counterplay in Minecraft / Marleena Huuhka; 12. Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman Agency / Patricia Flanagan and Raune Frankjær -- Part 5. Afterword: Unnarratable Matter? 13. Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material Ecocriticism / Juha Raipola. "The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture - although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well"--

     
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  13. Semantik der Krise - Semantik der Zukunft
    die kultursemiotische Funktion der zeitgenössischen Literatur am Beispiel der Biotechnologie
    Author: Singh, Stephanie
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  M-Press, München

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    ISBN: 9783899756647; 3899756649
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    RVK Categories: EC 2490 ; EC 5410 ; HQ 4157 ; IH 51111
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    Series: Forum Literaturwissenschaften ; 3
    Subjects: Biotechnology in literature; Culture; Literature, Modern; Semiotics and literature; Erzähltechnik; Feuilleton; Diskursanalyse; Kultursemiotik; Biotechnologie; Biotechnologie <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Panagiōtopulos, Nikos: To gonidiotēs amphibolias; Houellebecq, Michel (1958-): Les particules élémentaires; Atwood, Margaret (1939-): Oryx and Crake
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  14. Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction
    consciousness and the posthuman
    Author: Haney, William S.
    Published: 2006
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  15. Biopunk dystopias
    genetic engineering, society and science fiction
    Author: Schmeink, Lars
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Oxford

    Dystopia, Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Liquid Modernity -- The Anthropocene, the Posthuman, and the Animal -- Science, Family and the Monstrous Progeny -- Individuality, Choice, and Genetic Manipulation -- The Utopian, the Dystopian, and the... more

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    Dystopia, Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Liquid Modernity -- The Anthropocene, the Posthuman, and the Animal -- Science, Family and the Monstrous Progeny -- Individuality, Choice, and Genetic Manipulation -- The Utopian, the Dystopian, and the Heroic Deeds of One -- 9/11 and the Wasted Lives of Posthuman Zombies 'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet

     
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  16. Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture
    Contributor: Karkulehto, Sanna (Herausgeber); Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (Herausgeber); Varis, Essi (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    Part 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading. 1. On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s) / Carole Guesse; 2. Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman Powers / Karoliina Lummaa; 3.... more

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    Subjects: Technology in literature; Virtual reality in literature; Biotechnology in literature; Humanism in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature
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  17. Biopolitical futures in twenty-first-century speculative fiction
    Author: Vint, Sherryl
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues... more

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    Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically respond to a distinctive twenty-first-century biopolitics. This book theorizes how biotechnology intervenes in the very processes of biological function, reshaping life itself to serve economic ends. Linking fictional texts with material examples, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction shows how these practices are linked to new modes of exploitative economic relations that cannot be redressed by human rights. It concludes with a posthumanist reframing of the value of life that grounds itself elsewhere than in capitalist logics, a vision that, in a Covid age, might become fundamental to a new politics of ecological relations.

     
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    Subjects: Speculative fiction; Biotechnology in literature; Bioethics in literature; Biopolitics in literature
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  18. Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture
    Contributor: Karkulehto, Sanna (Herausgeber); Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (Herausgeber); Varis, Essi (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

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    "The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture - although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9780429512766; 0429512767
    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
    Subjects: Literatur; Technologie; Biotechnologie; Virtuelle Realität; Humanismus; Technology in literature; Virtual reality in literature; Biotechnology in literature; Humanism in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature
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  19. Semantik der Krise - Semantik der Zukunft
    die kultursemiotische Funktion der zeitgenössischen Literatur am Beispiel der Biotechnologie
    Author: Singh, Stephanie
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    Series: Forum Literaturwissenschaften ; 3
    Subjects: Biotechnology in literature; Culture; Literature, Modern; Semiotics and literature; Erzähltechnik; Feuilleton; Diskursanalyse; Kultursemiotik; Biotechnologie; Biotechnologie <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Panagiōtopulos, Nikos: To gonidiotēs amphibolias; Houellebecq, Michel (1958-): Les particules élémentaires; Atwood, Margaret (1939-): Oryx and Crake
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  20. Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction
    consciousness and the posthuman
    Author: Haney, William S.
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  21. Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture
    Contributor: Karkulehto, Sanna (HerausgeberIn); Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (HerausgeberIn); Varis, Essi (HerausgeberIn)
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    Part 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading. 1. On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s) / Carole Guesse; 2. Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman Powers / Karoliina Lummaa; 3.... more

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    Part 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading. 1. On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s) / Carole Guesse; 2. Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman Powers / Karoliina Lummaa; 3. Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects / Kaisa Kortekallio -- Part 2. Imagining Aliens and Monsters. 4. Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters / Essi Varis; 5. Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator / Jonne Arjoranta; 6 Wild Things Squeezed in the Closet: Monsters of Children's Literature as Nonhuman Others / Marleena Mustola and Sanna Karkulehto -- Part 3. Becoming with Animals. 7 Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Siebert's Angus / Mikko Keskinen; 8. Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts / Brad Bolman; 9. Reconfiguring Human and Nonhuman Animals in a Guiding Assemblage: Towards Posthumanist Conception of Disability / Hana Porkertová -- Part 4. Technological (Co-)Agencies. 10. Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-Anthropocentric Semiotics / Cléo Collomb and Samuel Goyet; 11. Journeys in Intensity: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower, and Counterplay in Minecraft / Marleena Huuhka; 12. Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman Agency / Patricia Flanagan and Raune Frankjær -- Part 5. Afterword: Unnarratable Matter? 13. Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material Ecocriticism / Juha Raipola. "The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture - although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well"--

     
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    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
    Subjects: Technology in literature; Virtual reality in literature; Biotechnology in literature; Humanism in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature
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  22. Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction
    Consciousness and the Posthuman
    Author: Haney, William S.
    Published: 2006; ©2006.
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    Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists... more

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    Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to move toward pure consciousness. As each chapter of this book contends, by forcibly overextending and thus jeopardizing the neurophysiology of consciousness, the posthuman condition could in the long term undermine human nature, defined as the effortless capacity for transcending the mind's conceptual content. Presented here for the first time, the essential argument of this book is more than a warning; it gives a direction: far better to practice patience and develop pure consciousness and evolve into a higher human being than to fall prey to the Faustian temptations of biotechnological power. As argued throughout the book, each person must choose for him or herself between the technological extension of physical experience through mind, body and world on the one hand, and the natural powers of human consciousness on the other as a means to realize their ultimate vision. Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Consciousness and the Posthuman -- Chapter 2: The Latent Powers of Consciousness vs. Bionic Humans -- Chapter 3: Derrida's Indian Literary Subtext -- Chapter 4: Consciousness and the Posthuman in Short Fiction -- Chapter 5: Frankenstein: The Monster's Constructedness and the Narrativity of Consciousness -- Chapter 6: William Gibson's Neuromancer: Technological Ambiguity -- Chapter 7: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: Humans are not Computers -- Chapter 8: Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Unicorns, Elephants and Immortality -- Chapter 9: Cyborg Revelations: Marge Piercy's He, She and It -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Survival of Human Nature -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

     
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    Series: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 2 ; v.v. 2
    Subjects: Electronic books ; local; Biotechnology ; Social aspects; Biotechnology in literature; Consciousness ; Social aspects; Cyborgs in literature; Mind and body; Science fiction ; Social aspects; Electronic books; Biotechnology in literature; Biotechnology; Consciousness; Cyborgs in literature; Mind and body; Science fiction
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  23. Biopunk Dystopias
    Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction
    Author: Schmeink, Lars
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome... more

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    'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet.

     
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    Series: Liverpool science fiction text and studies ; 56
    Subjects: Biotechnology in literature; Science fiction; Science fiction ; 21st century ; History and criticism; Biotechnology in literature; Science fiction; Fiction and related items; Biotechnologie dans la litterature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Science Fiction & Fantasy; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; Science fiction; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  24. Posthuman capital and biotechnology in contemporary novels
    Author: Johnston, Justin Omar
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland

    Introduction: The biotech century, human capital, and genre -- Clones : Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go -- Animal-human hybrids : Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- Toxic bodies : Indra Sinha's Animal's people -- Cyborgs : Jeanette Winterson's The... more

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    Introduction: The biotech century, human capital, and genre -- Clones : Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go -- Animal-human hybrids : Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- Toxic bodies : Indra Sinha's Animal's people -- Cyborgs : Jeanette Winterson's The stone gods -- Coda: Genres of futurity. This book examines several distinctive literary figurations of posthuman embodiment as they proliferate across a range of internationally acclaimed contemporary novels: clones in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, animal-human hybrids in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, toxic bodies in Indra Sinha's Animal's People, and cyborgs in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods. While these works explore the transformational power of the "biotech century," they also foreground the key role human capital theory has played in framing human belonging as an aspirational category that is always and structurally just out of reach, making contemporary subjects never-human-enough. In these novels, the dystopian character of human capital theory is linked to fantasies of apocalyptic release. As such, these novels help expose how two interconnected genres of futurity (the dystopian and the apocalyptic) work in tandem to propel each other forward so that fears of global disaster become alibis for dystopian control, which, in turn, becomes the predicate for intensifying catastrophes. In analyzing these novels, Justin Omar Johnston draws attention to the entanglement of bodies in technological environments, economic networks, and deteriorating ecological settings

     
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    ISBN: 9783030262563; 3030262561
    Series: Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
    Subjects: Fiction; Human body and technology in literature; Biotechnology in literature; Atwood, Margaret; Ishiguro, Kazuo; Sinha, Indra; Winterson, Jeanette; Biotechnology in literature; Fiction; Human body and technology in literature; Biotechnologie; Englisch; Künstliche Intelligenz; Posthumanismus; Roman; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  25. Biofictions
    Literary and Visual Imagination in the Age of Biotechnology
    Author: Kucukalic, Lejla
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Group, Milton ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000441543
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Routledge Focus on Literature Series
    Subjects: Biotechnology in literature; Science fiction-History and criticism-20th century; Science fiction-History and criticism-21st century
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (127 pages)
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