The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics [[electronic resource] ] : Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human / / by Scott Jeffery

• Autore: Jeffery Scott
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VIII, 264 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23
• Soggetto topico: Communication; United States—Study and teaching; Philosophy; Literature, Modern—20th century; Literature, Modern—21st century; Media and Communication; American Culture; Philosophy of Technology; Contemporary Literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there has been increasing concern surrounding human enhancement technologies, with the techno-scientific movement of Transhumanism arguing that it is time humans took active control of their evolution. Utilising Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the rhizome as a non-hierarchical system of knowledge to conceptualize the superhero narrative in terms of its political, social and aesthetic relations to the history of human technological enhancement, this book draws upon a diverse range of texts to explore the way in which the posthuman has been represented in superhero comics, while simultaneously highlighting its shared historical development with Post/Humanist critical theory and the material techno-scientific practices of Transhumanism.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics
• ISBN: 1-137-54950-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136840203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, . 2634-6370