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1 online resource (276 pages). |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries |
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Cultural revolutions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Critical posthumanism ; Posthumanism in Russia -- Questions of ethics and alterity. Our posthuman past: subjectivity, history and utopia in late-Soviet science fiction / Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University ; Digressions in progress: posthuman loneliness and the will to play in the work of the Strugatsky Brothers / Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Humans, animals, machines: scenarios of raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse / Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan -- Natural, built, and imagined environments. Environmentalism and the man of the future: discursive practices in the 1970s / Colleen McQuillen, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Daedalus and the Cyborg: human-machine hybridity in late-Soviet design / Diana Kurkovsky, West European University at St. Petersburg ; Some entropy in your tea: notes on the ontopoetics of artificial intelligence / Alex Anikina, Goldsmiths, University of London -- Technologies of the self. Romantic aesthetics and cybernetic fiction / Jacob Emery, Indiana University ; Writing and technology: writing the self in "real time" / Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College ; Modes of perception in transmodal fiction: new Russian subjectivity / Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Politics and social action. Nothing but mammals: post-Soviet sexuality after the end of history / Trevor Wilson, University of Pittsburgh ; Postsocialist Platonov: the question of humanism and the new Russian left / Jonathan Brooks Platt, University of Pittsburgh -- Afterword / Keti Chukhrov, an interview by Alina Kotova about Love Machines. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Humanism in literature.
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Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Art -- Soviet Union.
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Human body and technology in literature.
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Human body and technology in art.
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Humanism in art.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
McQuillen, Colleen, 1972- editor.
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Vaingurt, Julia, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Human reimagined : posthumanism in Russia. Boston : Academic Studies Press, c2018 276 pages Cultural revolutions. 9781618117328 (DLC) 2018031853 |
| ISBN |
9781618117328 |
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9781618117335 (e-book) |
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