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1 electronic resource (viii, 272 pages). |
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; [56] |
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 56.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages247-265) and index. |
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Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. |
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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. |
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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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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Language |
In English. |
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Science fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Biotechnology in literature.
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Biotechnologie dans la littérature.
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Fiction and related items.
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Science fiction.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Biotechnology in literature
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Science fiction
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Indexed Term |
Literature |
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Science Fiction |
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Dystopia |
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Genetic engineering |
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Humanism |
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Late modernity |
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Posthuman |
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Posthumanism |
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Utopia |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Biopunk dystopias Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2016] 1781383766 (DLC) 2016478578 |
| ISBN |
1781383766 |
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9781781383766 cased |
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9781781383322 (electronic bk.) |
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1781383324 (electronic bk.) |
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9781786944115 |
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1786944111 |
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1781383766 |
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9781781383766 |
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9781781383766 |
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AU@ 000061156244 |
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CHNEW 000950657 |
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CHVBK 483516171 |
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GBVCP 1008667935 |
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AU@ 000062526903 |
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:999892309005765 |
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