LEADER 03531oam 22005292 450 001 9910860815303321 005 20210128030705.0 010 $a1-00-304450-6 010 $a1-003-04450-6 010 $a1-000-32790-6 010 $a1-000-32794-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011645512 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6422093 035 $a(OCoLC)1201696346 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1201696346 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781003044505 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011645512 100 $a20201006h20212021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNeoliberalism and cyberpunk science fiction $eliving on the edge of burnout /$fCaroline Alphin 205 $aFirst Edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2020. 210 4$dİ 2021. 215 $a1 online resource (128 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-367-49099-4 327 $aIntroduction: Living on the edge of burnout -- The neoliberal science fictions of cyberpunk -- Self-monitoring as instrumentalized self-cultivation -- Subtle state killing as a mode of neoliberal governmentality -- Cyberpunk necroscapes and necro-temporality in Blade Runner -- Reframing the biohacker within the logic of intensity -- Conclusion: Defamiliarizing neoliberalism through cyberpunk science fiction. 330 $a"Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction. Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics, intensification, resilience, and accelerationism. The first chapters examine the political possibilities of cyberpunk as a genre of science fiction and introduce one kind of neoliberal subject, the self-monitoring cyborg. These are individuals who join fitness/health tracking devices and applications to their body to "self-cultivate". Here, Alphin presents concrete examples of how fitness trackers are a strategy of neoliberal governmentality under the guise of self-cultivation. Moving away from Foucault's biopolitics to themes of intensity and resilience, Alphin draws largely from William Gibson's Neuromancer, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, along with the film Blade Runner to problematize notions of neoliberal resilience. Alphin returns to biopolitics, intensity, and resilience, connecting these themes to accelerationism as she engages with biohacker discourses. Here she argues that a biohacker is, in part, an intensification of the self-monitoring cyborg and accelerationism is in the end another form of resilience. Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is an invaluable resource for those interested in security studies, political sociology, biopolitics, critical IR theory, political theory, cultural studies, and literary theory"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aNeoliberalism and literature 606 $aNeoliberalism in popular culture 606 $aCyberpunk fiction 615 0$aNeoliberalism and literature. 615 0$aNeoliberalism in popular culture. 615 0$aCyberpunk fiction. 676 $a808.38762093581 676 $a809.38762 700 $aAlphin$b Caroline$g(Caroline G.),$01741802 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910860815303321 996 $aNeoliberalism and cyberpunk science fiction$94168041 997 $aUNINA