LEADER 03854nam 22005892 450 001 9910159428303321 005 20170811033844.0 010 $a1-78138-105-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000119042 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001353225 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12572510 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001353225 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11316011 035 $a(PQKB)11273029 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000240461 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4776496 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4776496 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11322287 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL985320 035 $a(OCoLC)968723241 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781385746 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000119042 100 $a20170307d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSingularities $etechnoculture, transhumanism, and science fiction in the twenty-first century /$fby Joshua Raulerson$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 254 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aLiverpool science fiction texts and studies ;$v45 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a1-78138-574-2 311 $a1-84631-972-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 242-249) and index. 330 $aIn a time of protracted economic crisis, failing political systems, and impending environmental collapse, one strand in our collective cultural myth of Progress - the technological - remains vibrantly intact, surging into the future at ramming speed. Amid the seemingly exponential proliferation of machine intelligence and network connectivity, and the increasingly portentous implications of emerging nanotechnology, futurists and fabulists look to an imminent historical threshold whereupon the nature of human existence will be radically and irrevocably transformed. The Singularity, it is supposed, can be no more than a few years off; indeed, some believe it has already begun. Technological Singularity - a trope conceived in science fiction and subsequently adopted throughout technocultural discourse and beyond - is the primary site of interpenetration between technoscientific and science-fictional figurations of the future, a territory where longstanding binary oppositions between science and fiction, and between present and future, are rapidly dissolving. In this groundbreaking volume, the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity as a subject for theory and cultural studies, Raulerson draws SF texts into a complex dialogue with contemporary digital culture, transhumanist movements, political and economic theory, consumer gadgetry, gaming, and related vectors of high-tech postmodernity. In theorizing Singularity as a metaphorical construct lending shape to a range of millennial anxieties and aspirations, Singularities also makes the case for a recent and little-understood subgeneric formation - postcyberpunk SF - as a cohesive body of work, engaged in a shared literary project that is simultaneously shaping, and shaped by, purportedly nonfictional technoscientific discourses. 410 0$aLiverpool science fiction texts and studies ;$v45. 606 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and technology 606 $aTechnology in literature 615 0$aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and technology. 615 0$aTechnology in literature. 676 $a808.838762 700 $aRaulerson$b Joshua$01207590 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159428303321 996 $aSingularities$92785725 997 $aUNINA