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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Autore principale: Schmeink, Lars (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2016]
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.