ISBN:
9781781383322
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies LUP 56
Series Statement:
Knowledge Unlatched Frontlist Collection 2016
Series Statement:
Languages and Linguistics
Series Statement:
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schmeink, Lars, 1975 - Biopunk dystopias
DDC:
809.38762
Keywords:
Social sciences Research
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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.
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