LEADER 03091nam 22005775 450 001 9910300024603321 005 20230810194334.0 010 $a9783319908533 010 $a3319908537 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-90853-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000004243973 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-90853-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5398410 035 $a(Perlego)3493533 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004243973 100 $a20180517d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAyn Rand and the Posthuman $eThe Mind-Made Future /$fby Ben Murnane 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 197 p.) 311 08$a9783319908526 311 08$a3319908529 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: A Posthuman Objective -- Chapter 2: Points of Entry -- Chapter 3: The Posthuman and the Objectivist -- Chapter 4: Rand Noir vs Rand Incorporated -- Chapter 5: Objectivism in BioShock -- Chapter 6: Howard Roark, John Galt, and The Transhumanist Wager -- Chapter 7: Afterword: The Mind-Made Future. 330 $aAyn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American novelist's relationship with twenty-first-century ideas about technology. Rand wrote science fiction that has inspired Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, politicians, and economists. Ben Murnane demonstrates Rand's connection to, and impact on, those with a "posthuman" vision, in which human and machine merge. The text examines the philosophical intersections between Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and posthumanism, and Rand's influence on transhumanism, a major branch of posthumanist thought. The book further investigates Rand's presence and portrayal in various examples of posthumanist science fiction, including Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, popular videogame BioShock, and Zoltan Istvan's novel The Transhumanist Wager. Considering Rand's influence from a cultural, political, technological, and economic perspective, this study throws light on an under-documented but highly significant aspect of Rand's legacy. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aLiterature and technology 606 $aMass media and literature 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aLiterature and Technology 606 $aLiterary Theory 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature and technology. 615 0$aMass media and literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aLiterature and Technology. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 676 $a809 700 $aMurnane$b Ben$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0982616 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300024603321 996 $aAyn Rand and the Posthuman$92242513 997 $aUNINA