ISBN:
9781786944115
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1781383324
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1781383766
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1786944111
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9781781383766
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9781781383322
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 272 pages)
Series Statement:
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies [56]
Parallel Title:
Schmeink, Lars, 1975 - Biopunk dystopias
Parallel Title:
Print version Schmeink, Lars Biopunk dystopias : genetic engineering, society and science fiction
DDC:
809.38762
Keywords:
Science fiction History and criticism 21st century
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Biotechnology in literature
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Dystopias in literature
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Genetic engineering in literature
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Science fiction
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Biotechnology in literature
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Dystopias in literature
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Genetic engineering in literature
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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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Dystopias in literature
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Genetic engineering in literature
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Science fiction
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Fiction and related items
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Science fiction
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Electronic books
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Science-Fiction
Abstract:
'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
Abstract:
'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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index
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