LEADER 04220nam 22006732 450 001 9910159441103321 005 20230621141059.0 010 $a1-78694-411-1 010 $a1-78138-332-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000001018985 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781383322 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4779109 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001718598 035 $a(OCoLC)1138089782 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82851 035 $a(OCoLC)982228472 035 $a(ScCtBLL)8c500cb8-d07d-49e3-8ee9-0660f5e682f1 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28953 035 $a(PPN)266617026 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001018985 100 $a20170307d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBiopunk dystopias $egenetic engineering, society, and science fiction /$fLars Schmeink$b[electronic resource] 210 $aLiverpool$cLiverpool University Press$d2017 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aLiverpool science fiction text and studies ;$v56 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017). 311 $a1-78138-376-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages247-265) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dystopia, science fiction, posthumanism, and liquid modernity -- 3. The anthropocene, the posthuman, and the animal --4. Science, family and the monstrous progeny -- 5. Individuality, choice, and genetic manipulation -- 6.The utopian, the dystopian, and the heroic deeds of one -- 7. 9/11 and the Wasted Lives of Posthuman Zombies -- 8. Conclusion -- Works cited -- Index. 330 $a'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. The analysis deals with dystopian science fiction artifacts of different media from the year 2000 onwards that project a posthuman intervention into contemporary socio-political discourse based in liquid modernity in the cultural formation of biopunk. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet. As Rosi Braidotti argues, "there is a posthuman agreement that contemporary science and biotechnologies affect the very fibre and structure of the living and have altered dramatically our understanding of what counts as the basic frame of reference for the human today". The proposed book analyzes this alteration as directors, creators, authors, and artists from the field of science fiction extrapolate it from current trends. 410 0$aLiverpool science fiction texts and studies ;$v56. 606 $aScience fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBiotechnology in literature 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 610 $aLiterature 610 $aScience Fiction 610 $aDystopia 610 $aGenetic engineering 610 $aHumanism 610 $aLate modernity 610 $aPosthuman 610 $aPosthumanism 610 $aUtopia 615 0$aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBiotechnology in literature. 676 $a809.38762 700 $aSchmeink$b Lars$0975069 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159441103321 996 $aBiopunk Dystopias$92220228 997 $aUNINA