Biopunk Dystopias : Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction /

'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 sociol...

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Váldodahkki: Schmeink, Lars (Dahkki)
Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš E-girji
Giella:eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2016]
Ráidu:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Čoahkkáigeassu:'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.
Olgguldas hápmi:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9781781383322
Beassan:Open Access