Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack
| Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack |
| Autore | Womack Ytasha |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762093529 |
| Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Race identity
African diaspora - Social conditions Futurologists Science fiction films - Influence Science fiction - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-61374-799-3
1-61374-797-7 9781613747964 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Evolution of a space cadet -- A human fairy tale named black -- Project imagination -- Mothership in the key of Mars -- The African cosmos for modern mermaids (mermen) -- Divine feminine in space -- Pen my future -- Moonwalkers in paint and pixels -- A clock for time travelers -- The surreal life -- Agent change -- Future world. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453776703321 |
Womack Ytasha
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| Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack
| Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack |
| Autore | Womack Ytasha |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762093529 |
| Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Race identity
African diaspora - Social conditions Futurologists Science fiction films - Influence Science fiction - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-61374-799-3
1-61374-797-7 9781613747964 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Evolution of a space cadet -- A human fairy tale named black -- Project imagination -- Mothership in the key of Mars -- The African cosmos for modern mermaids (mermen) -- Divine feminine in space -- Pen my future -- Moonwalkers in paint and pixels -- A clock for time travelers -- The surreal life -- Agent change -- Future world. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790512703321 |
Womack Ytasha
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| Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack
| Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack |
| Autore | Womack Ytasha |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762093529 |
| Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Race identity
African diaspora - Social conditions Futurologists Science fiction films - Influence Science fiction - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
9781613747995
1613747993 9781613747971 1613747977 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Evolution of a space cadet -- A human fairy tale named black -- Project imagination -- Mothership in the key of Mars -- The African cosmos for modern mermaids (mermen) -- Divine feminine in space -- Pen my future -- Moonwalkers in paint and pixels -- A clock for time travelers -- The surreal life -- Agent change -- Future world. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910966996903321 |
Womack Ytasha
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| Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Before humanity : posthumanism and ancestrality / / Stefan Herbrechter
| Before humanity : posthumanism and ancestrality / / Stefan Herbrechter |
| Autore | Herbrechter Stefan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 599.938 |
| Collana | Critical Posthumanisms |
| Soggetto topico |
Human evolution - Philosophy
Philosophical anthropology Paleoanthropology Futurologists |
| ISBN | 90-04-50250-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preamble -- Introduction: Before … -- Chapter 1 The Other Human: On William Golding's The Inheritors -- 1 Prehistoric Fiction and Ancestrality -- 2 The Inheritors: Morality, Ideology, Humanism -- 3 Paleontology and the Neanderthal -- 4 Language, Cognition and 'Becoming Human' -- 5 Animism and Empathy -- 6 Becoming Human? -- Interlude 1 Languages and Evolutions -- Interlude 2 Animism without Humans, or Belief without Belief -- 1 'Believing' in Animism -- 2 Alter-Anthropological Animism (or a-a-a) -- 3 Posthumanist Animism? -- 4 Techno-Animism and the Re-Enchantment of Science -- 5 Animism Under Erasure -- 6 The Animism to Come -- 7 Seriously, But Perhaps Not Too Seriously? -- Interlude 3 Ape/Man -- Chapter 2 About to Forget … the Human: On Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene -- 1 Herr Geiser Is Losing His Humanity … -- 2 Catastrophe, Ecocide and Extinction in Man in the Holocene -- 3 Forgetting and Geiser's Mnemotechnics -- 4 Verzettelung -- 5 Pre- and Posthistory, Geology and Ancestrality -- 6 Before Humanity: Dementia and Ecography -- Interlude 4 Geology and Deep Time -- Interlude 5 Lascaux, Geophilia and the 'Cradle of Humanity' -- 1 Bataille - The Neolithic 'Origin' of Art and Humanity -- 2 Baudrillard - Lascaux and Simulation -- 3 Inhumanist Aesthetic? -- Chapter 3 Unsociable Robots: Empathy in Robot and Frank -- 1 Empathy Makes 'Us' Human? -- 2 Robot & -- Frank -- 3 Empathy and Sociable Robots -- 4 Posthuman(ist) Empathy? -- Conclusion: Becoming Inhuman -- 1 So You Think You're Becoming Human? -- 2 Post/Anthropology - Before and After Humans -- 3 Inhumanism, or, Becoming Inhuman -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795550803321 |
Herbrechter Stefan
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| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2022] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Before humanity : posthumanism and ancestrality / / Stefan Herbrechter
| Before humanity : posthumanism and ancestrality / / Stefan Herbrechter |
| Autore | Herbrechter Stefan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 599.938 |
| Collana | Critical Posthumanisms |
| Soggetto topico |
Human evolution - Philosophy
Philosophical anthropology Paleoanthropology Futurologists |
| ISBN | 90-04-50250-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preamble -- Introduction: Before … -- Chapter 1 The Other Human: On William Golding's The Inheritors -- 1 Prehistoric Fiction and Ancestrality -- 2 The Inheritors: Morality, Ideology, Humanism -- 3 Paleontology and the Neanderthal -- 4 Language, Cognition and 'Becoming Human' -- 5 Animism and Empathy -- 6 Becoming Human? -- Interlude 1 Languages and Evolutions -- Interlude 2 Animism without Humans, or Belief without Belief -- 1 'Believing' in Animism -- 2 Alter-Anthropological Animism (or a-a-a) -- 3 Posthumanist Animism? -- 4 Techno-Animism and the Re-Enchantment of Science -- 5 Animism Under Erasure -- 6 The Animism to Come -- 7 Seriously, But Perhaps Not Too Seriously? -- Interlude 3 Ape/Man -- Chapter 2 About to Forget … the Human: On Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene -- 1 Herr Geiser Is Losing His Humanity … -- 2 Catastrophe, Ecocide and Extinction in Man in the Holocene -- 3 Forgetting and Geiser's Mnemotechnics -- 4 Verzettelung -- 5 Pre- and Posthistory, Geology and Ancestrality -- 6 Before Humanity: Dementia and Ecography -- Interlude 4 Geology and Deep Time -- Interlude 5 Lascaux, Geophilia and the 'Cradle of Humanity' -- 1 Bataille - The Neolithic 'Origin' of Art and Humanity -- 2 Baudrillard - Lascaux and Simulation -- 3 Inhumanist Aesthetic? -- Chapter 3 Unsociable Robots: Empathy in Robot and Frank -- 1 Empathy Makes 'Us' Human? -- 2 Robot & -- Frank -- 3 Empathy and Sociable Robots -- 4 Posthuman(ist) Empathy? -- Conclusion: Becoming Inhuman -- 1 So You Think You're Becoming Human? -- 2 Post/Anthropology - Before and After Humans -- 3 Inhumanism, or, Becoming Inhuman -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810046003321 |
Herbrechter Stefan
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| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2022] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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