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American Mobilities : Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture / Julia Leyda
| American Mobilities : Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture / Julia Leyda |
| Autore | Leyda Julia <p>Julia Leyda, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland </p> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.873 |
| Collana | American Culture Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature
Film Culture USA Mobility Capital Flows Labour Flows Contemporary History Great Depression Global Financial Crisis Cultural Studies America American Studies American History Cultural History |
| ISBN |
9783839434550
3839434556 |
| Classificazione | HU 1691 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Foreword 9 Introduction: American Mobilities 11 1. Reading White Trash 33 2. Incorporation and Embodiment 61 3. Who's Got the Car Keys? 107 4. Black-Audience Westerns 141 5. Space, Class, City 173 6. Home on the Range 191 |
| Altri titoli varianti | Leyda, American Mobilities Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910263846203321 |
Leyda Julia <p>Julia Leyda, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland </p>
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Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction / Natalie Dederichs
| Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction / Natalie Dederichs |
| Autore | Dederichs Natalie <1992-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.6 |
| Collana | Critical Futures |
| Soggetto topico |
Ecocriticism
Atmospheres Literature Climate Change Ecogothic Nature American Studies British Studies Ecology Literary Studies |
| ISBN |
9783839465875
3839465877 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. There is Something in the Air -- 2.1 Towards an Aesthetics of Literary Atmospheres -- 2.1.1 In the Presence of Absence: The Atmospheric Experience -- 2.1.2 Literary Spheres: Text, Contact, and the Reader -- 2.2 Material Ethics and the Affective Agency of Atmospheres -- 2.3 Gothic Nature and Uncanny Atmospheres -- 2.4 Entering a New Dark Age: Atmospheric Re(lation)ality and the Anthropocene Imagination -- 3. Being Polluted in the Global Garb-Age -- 3.1 Posthuman, Post-Nature, and Lit(t)erature -- 3.1.1 "Nothingness haunts being": Experiences on the Threshold between Toxic Spaces and the Self in Glister -- 3.1.2 "Clustering out like fungi": Liminal Modes of Being in Marrow Island -- 3.2 Making Sense of Embodied Permeability -- 4. Reading Matters, Material Readings -- 4.1 Weird Terroirs and Other Terrors -- 4.2 Traces of Atmospheric Agency -- 4.3 Atmospheric Agency of Literary Traces -- 5. Going Glocal -- 5.1 Glocal Points of Access -- 5.2 Ambient Literature and the Storying in and of Spacetime -- 5.3 Where to Read from Here: Duncan Speakman's It Must Have Been Dark By Then -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Bibliography. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Dederichs, Atmosfears |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911026036303321 |
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Dederichs Natalie <1992->
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Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society : Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives / Günter Leypoldt, Manfred Berg
| Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society : Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives / Günter Leypoldt, Manfred Berg |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.3/6 |
| Collana | American Culture Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Trust
Authority Populism Urbanity US Religion US Literature America Politics Literature American History Policy American Studies History Cultural Studies |
| ISBN |
9783839451892
3839451892 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Decline of Political Trust and the Rise of Populism in the United States -- Waning Trust in (Scientific) Experts and Expertise? -- Shifting Meridians of Global Authority -- Trust and the City -- “We must trust that look of hers” -- “We believe that we have a right to revelations, visions, and dreams from God” -- The Trust Debate in the Literature of the American Renaissance -- Authority, Genealogy, Infrastructure -- Shoppers, Worshippers, Culture Warriors -- List of Contributors |
| Altri titoli varianti | Leypoldt/Berg (eds.), Authority and Trust Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910642296103321 |
| Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021 | ||
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Belonging and Narrative : A Theory of the American Novel / Laura Bieger
| Belonging and Narrative : A Theory of the American Novel / Laura Bieger |
| Autore | Bieger Laura <p>Laura Bieger, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Niederlande </p> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.009 |
| Collana | Lettre |
| Soggetto topico |
Narrative Theory
American Novel Space and Place Literature America American Studies Cultural History Cultural Studies Literary Studies |
| ISBN |
9783839446003
3839446007 |
| Classificazione | HR 1800-HR 1819 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 1. Belonging, Narrative, and the Art of the Novel 13 2. Poisoned Letters from a Gothic Frontier 41 3. The Art of Attachment 73 4. Dwelling in What is Found 105 5. Of Cranes and Brains 135 Works Cited 163 |
| Altri titoli varianti | Bieger, Belonging and Narrative A Theory of the American Novel |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910433253503321 |
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Bieger Laura <p>Laura Bieger, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Niederlande </p>
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| Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018 | ||
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Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself : The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself / Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld
| Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself : The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself / Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld |
| Autore | Grewe-Salfeld Mirjam <p>Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld, Universität Potsdam, Deutschland </p> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (314 p.) : 233 MB |
| Disciplina | 613 |
| Collana | American Culture Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Culture
Representation Biology Medicine Biocultures Biohacking Biotechnology Cultural Narratives DIY America Body Biopolitics American Studies Life Sciences Cultural Studies |
| ISBN |
9783839460047
3839460042 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Amidst a Global Pandemic -- PART I: INTRODUCTIONS -- 1 Introduction: Biotechnologies, Bodies and Biomakers -- 2 Biology and Culture - an Overview of the Field -- PART II: BACKGROUND -- 3 The Promise of Small Things - The Cultural Presence of (Molecular) Biology -- 4 With my Own two Hands - Tracing DIY from Individualism to Maker Culture -- PART III: 'HACKING' LIFE ITSELF -- 5 'Hacking' Life Itself - In Pursuit of a Definition -- 6 #iambulletproof - A Layperson's Guide to Self-Enhancement -- 7 A Pill for Every Ill - Drugs and Supplements -- 8 Test Yourself - Making the Invisible Visible -- 9 Homo Technologicus? - The Technological Self, Inside Out -- 10 "The Human Need to Fiddle" - Tinkering with Technology -- PART IV: REFLECTIONS -- 11 Discussing DIY -- 12 Conclusion: Between Politics and Promise -- Works Cited. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Grewe-Salfeld, Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910513704103321 |
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Grewe-Salfeld Mirjam <p>Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld, Universität Potsdam, Deutschland </p>
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| Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021 | ||
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The Birth of the Grand Old Party : The Republicans' First Generation / / Robert F. Engs, Randall M. Miller
| The Birth of the Grand Old Party : The Republicans' First Generation / / Robert F. Engs, Randall M. Miller |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 324.2734 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | McPhersonJames M |
| Soggetto topico |
Political parties
American History American Studies Political Science Public Policy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-89699-0
0-8122-0665-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The Ideology of the Republican Party / Foner, Eric -- CHAPTER TWO. Making and Mobilizing the Republican Party, 1854-1860 / Holt, Michael F. -- CHAPTER THREE. War Is the Health of the Party: Republicans in the American Civil War / Paludan, Phillip Shaw -- The Genesis and Growth of the Republican Party: A Brief History -- CHAPTER FOUR. Politics Purified: Religion and the Growth of Antislavery Idealism in Republican Ideology During the Civil War / Neely, Mark E. -- CHAPTER FIVE. Defining Postwar Republicanism: Congressional Republicans and the Boundaries of Citizenship / Baker, Jean H. -- Afterword / McPherson, James M. -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452655603321 |
| Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] | ||
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The Birth of the Grand Old Party : The Republicans' First Generation / / Robert F. Engs, Randall M. Miller
| The Birth of the Grand Old Party : The Republicans' First Generation / / Robert F. Engs, Randall M. Miller |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 324.2734 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | McPhersonJames M |
| Soggetto topico |
Political parties
American History American Studies Political Science Public Policy |
| Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Political Science Public Policy |
| ISBN |
1-283-89699-0
0-8122-0665-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The Ideology of the Republican Party / Foner, Eric -- CHAPTER TWO. Making and Mobilizing the Republican Party, 1854-1860 / Holt, Michael F. -- CHAPTER THREE. War Is the Health of the Party: Republicans in the American Civil War / Paludan, Phillip Shaw -- The Genesis and Growth of the Republican Party: A Brief History -- CHAPTER FOUR. Politics Purified: Religion and the Growth of Antislavery Idealism in Republican Ideology During the Civil War / Neely, Mark E. -- CHAPTER FIVE. Defining Postwar Republicanism: Congressional Republicans and the Boundaries of Citizenship / Baker, Jean H. -- Afterword / McPherson, James M. -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779146203321 |
| Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] | ||
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Black Travel Writing : Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors / Isabel Kalous
| Black Travel Writing : Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors / Isabel Kalous |
| Autore | Kalous Isabel <p>Isabel Kalous, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Deutschland </p> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 pages) |
| Disciplina | 810.9 |
| Collana | American Culture Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Travel Writin
African Diaspora Travel Africa African American Writers Black British Writers Literature Postcolonialism Migration American Studies Cultural Studies Literary Studies |
| ISBN | 3-8394-5953-2 |
| Classificazione | HU 1728 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I Introduction -- 1. Points of Departure: Tracing Roots/Routes to Africa -- 2. On the Current State of Research -- 3. Route Map: Theoretical Premises, Methods, and Objectives of this Study -- II Traveling Black-Traveling Back -- 1. Black Im/Mobilities Past and Present -- 2. Diasporic Return and the Significance of Africa in the Black Imagination -- III An Invisible/Kaleidoscopic Genre: Black Travel Writing -- 1. Defining the Terms: Genre and Genealogy -- 2. The Transnational Slave Narrative and the Roots of Black Travel Writing -- 3. Developments and Trajectories -- 3.1 Travel Writing as a Venue for Criticism -- 3.2 "What a Difference a Border Makes": Transformative Travel Experiences and Literary Self-Exploration -- 3.3 Twentieth-Century Black Writers in/on Africa -- IV Contemporary Black Travel Narratives -- 1. (Re)Writing Roots -- 1.1 Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) -- 1.2 Isaiah Washington's A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life (2011) -- 2. Disenchanting Africa -- 2.1 Eddy L. Harris's Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africa (1992) -- 2.2 Keith Richburg's Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa (1997) -- 3. Searching for Home -- 3.1 Ekow Eshun's Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond (2005) -- 3.2 Emily Raboteau's Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora (2013) -- 4. Tracing Routes -- 4.1 Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound (2000) -- 4.2 Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007) -- V Conclusion: Ambiguous Arrivals -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Kalous, Black Travel Writing Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910875598203321 |
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Kalous Isabel <p>Isabel Kalous, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Deutschland </p>
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| Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021 | ||
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Congoism : Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present / Johnny Van Hove
| Congoism : Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present / Johnny Van Hove |
| Autore | Van Hove Johnny <p>Johnny Van Hove, Agency for the Development of Professional Education " Berlin, Germany </p> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 967.51 |
| Collana | Histoire |
| Soggetto topico |
United States
Congo History Racism Culture Neocolonialism Malcom X Joseph Conrad David Van Reybrouck Cultural History Postcolonialism America American History History of Colonialism American Studies |
| ISBN |
9783839440377
3839440378 |
| Classificazione | NK 4380 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction: Shifting Perspectives on the Congo: Re-Reading Central West Africa 9 First Chapter. From Slave to Savage: The Realization of a Topos (1800-1885) 53 Second Chapter. Between Art and Atrocity: Epistemic Multiplication and Standardization (1885-1945) 135 Third Chapter. Revolution, Reform, Reproduction: Strategies and Limitations for Change (1945-Present) 243 Conclusion. Doing Damage, or Re-Writing Central West Africa 303 References 319 |
| Altri titoli varianti | Van Hove, Congoism Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910315224303321 |
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Van Hove Johnny <p>Johnny Van Hove, Agency for the Development of Professional Education " Berlin, Germany </p>
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Ethics for the Future : Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction / Stephanie Bender
| Ethics for the Future : Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction / Stephanie Bender |
| Autore | Bender Stephanie <p>Stephanie Bender, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Deutschland </p> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
| Disciplina | 891.709003 |
| Collana | Edition Kulturwissenschaft |
| Soggetto topico |
Future
Ethics Film Novels 21st Century Literature American Studies British Studies Literary Studies |
| ISBN |
9783839468203
3839468205 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Challenging Times -- Ethics for the Future: From Humanism to Posthumanism -- Ethical Criticism in the 21st Century -- Aesthetics for the Future: Popular Future Fictions -- The Chapters -- 2 Ethics for the Future through Fiction -- A Difficult Heritage: Humanism and Beyond -- New Ethics for a New Age: Hans Jonas -- Deconstruction, Ethics, and the Anthropocene: Joanna Zylinska -- Towards Posthumanist Ethics -- Actual Worlds and Possible Futures in Fiction -- Existing Ethical Approaches to Literature -- Ethical Criticism in Film -- Limitations of Existing Approaches -- Future Ethical Criticism: Worlds in the Making -- 3 Future World Ecologies: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 (2017) and James Cameron's Avatar (2009) -- A Political World‐Ecology Approach: Kim Stanley Robinson's NewYork 2140 -- New Realist Utopianism -- Ethics through an Aesthetic Unity of Effect -- The Capitalocene: Economy‐Ecology -- Political Organisation through Actor Networks -- Back to "Nature" in James Cameron's Avatar -- Effective Affection? Ethical Responses to the Fantastic -- Ecologies without Nature -- The Unobtainium of the Industrial‐Military Complex -- Are the Scientists also the Good Guys? -- Can You See What Is Real? -- Conclusion -- 4 Transhumanist Futures: Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) and Wally Pfister's Transcendence (2014) -- Transhumanist Ethics in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar -- Directing Viewers' Emotions -- The End Times of the Earth's World Ecology Managed by Bureaucrats -- Normative Humanity and Border Transgressions -- The Scientific, Science Fiction, and Space -- The Otherworld in Space: A Fusion of Science and Love -- Philosophical Essentialism: Futuristic Technologies and The Humanin Wally Pfister's Transcendence -- More than Black and White: Ambiguous Ethics and Aesthetics.
Will as a Prototypical Representative of Transhumanist Thought -- Technology as a New Form of Secular Spirituality -- A Natural Techno‐Spirituality -- The Classical Substantivist View: Revolutionary Independence fromTechnology -- The Resolution? Max as Middle Ground, Love as Reconciling Force -- Conclusion -- 5 Futuristic Digital Neoliberalism: Spike Jonze's Her (2013) and Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) -- The Self and the Other in Digital Neoliberalism: Relationshipsand Identities in Spike Jonze's Her -- The Aesthetics of Digital Neoliberalism, the Self and the Other -- A Digital Mimicking of Neoliberal Selfhood -- Failed Romance: Meeting the Self instead of the Other -- Selling Love -- A Posthuman(ist) Possibility of an Other(world) -- The Economy of Attention in Dave Eggers's The Circle -- The Aesthetics of Warning -- The Threat of a Digital Economy of Attention -- Digital Capitalism and Transhumanism -- The Individual Level: Computational Psychologies -- The Political Level: Democratic Transhumanism -- The Physical and the Political Economy as Otherworlds -- Conclusion -- 6 Biopolitics of the Future: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2006) and Don DeLillo's Zero K (2016) -- The Biopolitics of Health in an Alternative Past: KnowingandNotKnowinginKazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go -- Knowing and Not Knowing -- The Alternative Futuristic History -- The Complicity of the Deprived -- Narrative Worldmaking -- Structures of Recognition -- Making Arts and Creating Illusions: Humanist Art as a Tool forIdeological Worldmaking -- A Futuristic Present: The Power over Life and Death inDonDeLillo'sZero K -- The Present as Future -- The Biopolitics of Death in the Future -- Language and Life -- The Immortality of Art and the Art of Immortality -- The Little Life as Otherworld -- Conclusion. 7 More than Human?: Threats of AI in Dennis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Alex Garland's ExMachina (2014) -- "To Be Born Is to Have a Soul, I Guess." Reproduction andHuman(e)ness in Dennis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 -- The Ethics and Aesthetics of Biopunk Futures -- Reality and Simulation -- The Dominant World: Capitalism and Transhumanism, Again -- Reproducing "the Human" -- Deconstructing "the Human" -- Reflecting the Speculative Spectacle: Alex Garland's ExMachina -- The Speculative Spectacle: Cultural Fear of AI -- ExMachina "through the Looking Glass" -- Transhumanist Hubris: Nathan -- Humanism Failed: Caleb as the Antihero -- Posthuman(ist) Otherness: Ava -- Conclusion -- 8 Posthumanist Futures: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy (2003, 2006, 2013) and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009) -- Ethics through Metafiction: Storytelling in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy -- "It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories" -- Postmodernist Aesthetics and Ethics -- Neoliberal Capitalism Unleashed -- The Otherworld of the Gardeners -- The Story of the Apocalypse -- Postapocalyptic Posthumanism -- Non‐human Agents and Posthumanist Ethics in Paolo Bacigalupi'sThe Windup Girl -- Biopunk and the Aesthetics of Scale -- A Complex Entanglement of Worlds -- The Bioconservatist Regression to "Niche and Nature" -- The New Expansion of Biocapitalism -- Posthuman and Transhumanist Perspectives -- Posthumanist Ethics -- Conclusion -- 9 Contemporary Imaginaries of the Future -- Ethical Openness versus Closure -- Unmaking Capitalist Futures -- Otherworlds of the Future -- Speculative Realism -- Works Cited. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Bender, Ethics for the Future Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction |
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Bender Stephanie <p>Stephanie Bender, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Deutschland </p>
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| Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023 | ||
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