Transhumanism and posthumanism in twenty-first century narrative

Transhumanism and posthumanism in twenty-first century narrative

by Baelo-Allué, Sonia Calvo-Pascual, Mónica

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Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of the 21st century, by Dave Eggers, William Gibson, John Shirley, Tom McCarthy, Jeff Vandermeer, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, Cixin Liu and Helen Marshall. Some of these works engage in the premises and …

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  • Full title :Transhumanism and posthumanism in twenty-first century narrative / edited by Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual.

Summary

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of the 21st century, by Dave Eggers, William Gibson, John Shirley, Tom McCarthy, Jeff Vandermeer, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, Cixin Liu and Helen Marshall. Some of these works engage in the premises and perils of transhumanism, while others explore the qualities of the (post)human in a variety of dystopian futures marked by the planetary influence of human action. From a critical posthumanist perspective that questions anthropocentrism, human exceptionalism and the centrality of the human' subject in the era of the Anthropocene, the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2021.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:New York, NY
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2021.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : : illustrations (black and white).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781000374018, 1000374017, 9781003129813, 1003129811, 9781000373967, 1000373967
  • DOI:10.4324/9781003129813
  • oclc:on1242466013
  • LC Classification:PN56.P556
  • Dewey Decimal:809.911

Table of Contents

<P>(Trans/Post)Humanity and Representation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene: An Introduction. <I>Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual</P><P></P></I><P>Section I. Theoretical Approaches: Looking Back, Looking Ahead</P><P>1. Before Humanity: Or, Posthumanism Between Ancestrality and Becoming Inhuman. <I>Stefan Herbrechter</P></I><P>2. From Utilitarianism to Transhumanism: A Critical Approach. <I>Maite Escudero-Alías</P></I><P>3. Posthuman Modes of Reading Literature Online. <I>Alexandra Glavanakova</P></I><P></P><P>Section II. Transhumanism: The Uneasiness of Human Enhancement</P><P>4. Vigilance to Wonder: Human Enhancement in TED Talks. <I>Loredana Filip</P></I><P>5. Patterns of Posthuman Numbness in Shirley & Gibson's "The Belonging Kind" and Eggers's <I>The Circle</I>. <I>Francisco Collado-Rodríguez</P></I><P>6.<B> </B>Subjects of the 'Modem' World: Writing U. in Tom McCarthy's <I>Satin Island.</I> <I>Margalida Massanet Andreu</P></I><P></P><P>Section III. Transhumanism: Trauma and (Bio)Technology</P><P>7. The Paradoxical Anti-Humanism of Tom McCarthy's <I>C</I>: Traumatic Secrets and the Waning of Affects in the Technological Society. <I>Susana Oneg…

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction &… Literature, Modern Literature, Modern -- History and criti… Littérature -- Histoire et critique. --… PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism Posthumanism in literature Transhumanism in literature Transhumanisme -- Dans la littérature

Writers

Baelo-Allué, Sonia Calvo-Pascual, Mónica

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