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The Projected and Prophetic Humanity in Cyberculture Cyberspace and Science Fiction
Author | : Jordan J. Copeland |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781848880870 |
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The papers collected in this volume document the exchange and development of ideas that comprised the 5th Global Conference on Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction, hosted at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, in July 2010.
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
Author | : Eric Carl Link,Gerry Canavan |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2015-01-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107052468 |
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This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.
Navigating Cybercultures
Author | : Nicholas van Orden |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2019-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781848881631 |
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The papers collected here address the questions about posthumanism, hybridity, humanity, subjectivity, and aesthetics that echo through all of our daily attempts to navigate our rapidly shifting cybercultures.
Worlds So Strange and Diverse
Author | : Grzegorz Trębicki |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781443875264 |
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This book represents an analysis of contemporary fantasy (non-mimetic) literature in all its richness and diversity, and offers a preliminary definition of the major fields of taxonomical interest, in addition to marking some of the unmapped territories of “fantastic” fiction. In its first part, the book presents an overview of all major previous theoretical discussions of the issue, particularly those by Tzvetan Todorov, Rosemary Jackson, Darko Suvin, Brian Attebery, Marek Oziewicz and Farah Mendlesohn. The second part of the book provides an interesting comprehensive taxonomy of its own, based on the notion of supragenological types of literature, first introduced by Andrzej Zgorzelski.
The Lives of Texts
Author | : Andrzej Kowalczyk,Katarzyna Pisarska |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014-07-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781443865135 |
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The Lives of Texts: Exploring the Metaphor examines various instances of “textual subsistence” implied by the title. Drawing on the parallel between a text and a living organism, the contributors analyze various literary texts ranging from the Middle Ages to postmodernity, as well as film adaptations and the graphic novel. Apart from the works of canonical writers, attention is also drawn to some long-forgotten authors, along with the most recent instances of popular literature and culture. The exploration of the title metaphor allows the contributors to trace life-like phenomena (e.g. textual birth, maturation, dissemination, death and resurrection) in the texts of writers so remote from each other as Layamon, Thomas More, Mary Shelley, Charles Williams, Ursula Le Guin, A. S. Byatt, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Banks, J. K. Rowling, or Neil Gaiman.
Cyberpunk Cyberculture
Author | : Dani Cavallaro |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2000-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781847140357 |
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Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix - and contemporary work on the culture of technology.
Visions of the Human in Science Fiction and Cyberpunk
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781904710165 |
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This collection of papers joins a growing body of work addressing what are arguably some of the most important questions faced in the 21st century; what does it mean to be human and what do we understand by humanity?
Cyberculture Cyborgs and Science Fiction
Author | : William S. Haney |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789042019485 |
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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.