LEADER 02780nam 2200505u 450 001 9910725065503321 005 20241219210947.0 010 $a1-912685-87-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000011997263 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6676805 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6676805 035 $a(OCoLC)1261368074 035 $a(oapen)doab100332 035 $a(NYHLS)99330 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011997263 100 $a20220719d2021|||| m|| 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExtreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life 210 1$a[Place of publication not identified], $cGoldsmiths Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (141 pages) 300 $aArchived and cataloged by Library Stack 311 08$a1-912685-88-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"With this book, Steven Shaviro offers a thought experiment. He discusses a number of science fiction narratives: three novels, one novella, three short stories, and one musical concept album. Shaviro not only analyzes these works in detail but also uses them to ask questions about human, and more generally, biological life: about its stubborn insistence and yet fragility; about the possibilities and perils of seeking to control it; about the aesthetic and social dimensions of human existence, in relation to the nonhuman; and about the ethical value of human life under conditions of extreme oppression and devastation. Shaviro pursues these questions through the medium of science fiction because this form of storytelling offers us a unique way of grappling with issues that deeply and unavoidably concern us but that are intractable to rational argumentation or to empirical verification. The future is unavoidably vague and multifarious; it stubbornly resists our efforts to know it in advance, let alone to guide it or circumscribe it. But science fiction takes up this very vagueness and indeterminacy and renders it into the form of a self-consciously fictional narrative. It gives us characters who experience, and respond to, the vagaries of unforeseeable change."--$cprovided by distributor. 606 $aArt and literature 606 $aArts and Literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00815400 608 $aDiscursive works 608 $abook.$2marcgt 608 $aCritical Writing.$2fast 615 10$aArt and literature. 615 17$aArts and Literature. 676 $a809.38762 700 $aShaviro$b Steven$0607681 712 02$aLibrary Stack (Organization), 801 0$bNYHLS 801 1$bNYHLS 852 $aNYHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910725065503321 996 $aExtreme fabulations$93374942 997 $aUNINA