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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Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
Lingua: | inglese |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
[2016]
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Sommario:
- Dystopia, science fiction, posthumanism, and liquid modernity
- The anthropocene, the posthuman, and the animal
- Science, family and the monstrous progeny
- Individuality, choice, and genetic manipulation
- The utopian, the dystopian, and the heroic deeds of one
- 9/11 and the wasted lives of posthuman zombies.