Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction
by Sherryl Vint
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Anxieties about embodiment and posthumanism have always found an outlet in the science fiction of the day. In Bodies of Tomorrow, Sherryl Vint argues for a new model of an ethical and embodied posthuman subject through close readings of the works of Gwyneth Jones, Octavia Butler, Iain M. Banks, William Gibson, and other science fiction authors. Vint?s discussion is firmly contextualized by discussions of contemporary technoscience, specifically genetics and information technology, and the show more implications of this technology for the way we consider human subjectivity. Engaging with theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Anne Balsamo, N. Katherine Hayles, and Douglas Kellner,Bodies of Tomorrow argues for the importance of challenging visions of humanity in the future that overlook our responsibility as embodied beings connected to a material world. If we are to understand the post-human subject, then we must acknowledge our embodied connection to the world around us and the value of our multiple subjective responses to it. Vint?s study thus encourages a move from the common liberal humanist approach to posthuman theory toward what she calls ?embodied posthumanism.? This timely work of science fiction criticism will prove fascinating to cultural theorists, philosophers, and literary scholars alike, as well as anyone concerned with the ethics of posthumanism. show lessTags
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Sherryl Vint is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity and Science Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2007) and co-editor of the journals Science Fiction Film and Television (Liverpool University Press) and Extrapolation show more (University of Texas Press). show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Science Fiction, Science & Nature
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- 808.83 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Literature Collections Collections of fiction
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- PS374 .S35 .V56 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Prose Prose fiction
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