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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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911046582903321 |
Bender Stephanie <p>Stephanie Bender, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Deutschland </p>
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| Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ibridazioni balzachiane : «Meditazioni eclettiche» su romanzo, teatro, illustrazione / / Anna Fierro
| Ibridazioni balzachiane : «Meditazioni eclettiche» su romanzo, teatro, illustrazione / / Anna Fierro |
| Autore | Fierro Anna |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Firenze, Italy : , : Firenze University Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 843.7 |
| Collana | Premio ricerca Città di Firenze |
| Soggetto topico |
Novels
Theaters |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
| Nota di contenuto | Premessa -- Prima parte. Narrativo -- 1. Le sofferenze di un inventore: il romanzo secondo Balzac -- Seconda parte. Teatrale -- 2. Splendori e miserie di un drammaturgo -- Terza parte. Ibrido -- 3. Mosaici balzachiani: teatro da leggere, romanzo da rappresentare, immagini da ascoltare -- Appendice iconografica -- Bibliografia. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Ibridazioni balzachiane |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910774870003321 |
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Fierro Anna
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| Firenze, Italy : , : Firenze University Press, , [2013] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sasha Sokolov: The Life and Work of the Russian “Proet” / / Martina Napolitano, Reinhard Ibler
| Sasha Sokolov: The Life and Work of the Russian “Proet” / / Martina Napolitano, Reinhard Ibler |
| Autore | Napolitano Martina |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hannover, : ibidem, 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (163 pages) |
| Disciplina | 891.7344 |
| Collana | Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa |
| Soggetto topico |
Novels
Russian Literature Russian Poetics Russische Dichtung Russische Literatur Sasha Sokolov |
| ISBN | 3-8382-7619-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Masquerade, or "Maintain your reputation!" -- The son of the nomenklatura -- An asocial profile in the Moscow underground scene -- Fleeing the city -- Getting ready to leave -- A stopover in Vienna -- A North-American nomad -- Sasha Sokolov, the lecturer -- Soviet Union, toccata and fugue -- "An eternal student of the globetrotting department" -- Chapter 2. On Early Trains, or Beyond Sasha Sokolov's Twilight Cosmos -- Emotional proximity -- Classification difficulty -- Close reading attempts -- Sasha Sokolov's baroqueness -- Chapter 3. Pictures from an Exhibition -- A language to compose texts -- A sound architecture -- Triptych's music -- Voices on stage -- Triptych's "theatre of pure reason" -- Chapter 4. Theory and Play of Proeziia -- A long proetic tradition -- A choice of awareness -- A baroque macro-genre -- In Lieu of a Conclusion -- References. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910964672103321 |
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Napolitano Martina
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| Hannover, : ibidem, 2022 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Silas Marner
| Silas Marner |
| Autore | Eliot George |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | La Vergne : , : Salamander Street Ltd., , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (67 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WheellerMark |
| Soggetto topico | Novels |
| ISBN | 1-913630-79-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Background Note From The Author -- Silas Marner -- Cast Memories of The OYT Production. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794662403321 |
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Eliot George
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| La Vergne : , : Salamander Street Ltd., , 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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