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Critical Posthumanism Cloned Toxic And Cyborg Bodies In Fiction
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Author : Pelin Kümbet
language : en
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Release Date : 2020-12-25
Critical Posthumanism Cloned Toxic And Cyborg Bodies In Fiction written by Pelin Kümbet and has been published by Transnational Press London this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-25 with Philosophy categories.
Focusing on three representation of posthuman bodies as cloned bodies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), toxic bodies in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007), and cyborg bodies in Justina Robson’s Natural History (2004) from the theoretical perspectives of posthuman definition of what it means to be human, this study discusses the changing concept of the body. In this context, the integral and dynamic connection between a human body and the world is of special significance, which opens up new possibilities to reconfigure the human body that is no longer conceded separate from the nonhuman world but embodied in it. Each of the novels significantly displays the in-betweenness of humans by making them interact with chemical substances, machines, and other nonhuman entities, and shows how clear-cut distinctions between the human and the nonhuman bodies have collapsed.
Japanese Perspectives On Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author : Takayuki Shonaka
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-01-03
Japanese Perspectives On Kazuo Ishiguro written by Takayuki Shonaka and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British author from the vantage point of his birthplace, showing how Ishiguro remains greatly indebted to Japanese culture and sensibilities. The influence of Japanese literature and film is evident in Ishiguro’s early novels as he deals with the problem of the atomic bomb and Japan’s war responsibility, yet his later works also engage with folk tales and the modern popular culture of Japan. The chapters consider a range of Japanese influences on Ishiguro and adaptations of Ishiguro’s work, including literary, cinematic and animated representations. The book makes use of newly archived drafts of Ishiguro’s manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas to explore the origins of his oeuvre. It also offers sharp, new examinations of Ishiguro’s work in relation to memory studies, especially in relation to Japan.
Cyberculture Cyborgs And Science Fiction
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Author : William S. Haney
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2006
Cyberculture Cyborgs And Science Fiction written by William S. Haney and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to move toward pure consciousness. As each chapter of this book contends, by forcibly overextending and thus jeopardizing the neurophysiology of consciousness, the posthuman condition could in the long term undermine human nature, defined as the effortless capacity for transcending the mind's conceptual content. Presented here for the first time, the essential argument of this book is more than a warning; it gives a direction: far better to practice patience and develop pure consciousness and evolve into a higher human being than to fall prey to the Faustian temptations of biotechnological power. As argued throughout the book, each person must choose for him or herself between the technological extension of physical experience through mind, body and world on the one hand, and the natural powers of human consciousness on the other as a means to realize their ultimate vision.
Posthumanism
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Author : Pramod K. Nayar
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-03-08
Posthumanism written by Pramod K. Nayar and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both amaterial condition and a developing philosophical-ethical projectin the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants andimplants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques oftraditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and‘speciesist’ politics that position the human as adistinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes theposthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering andtechno-scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness isshaped by its co-evolution with other life forms, and our humanform inescapably influenced by tools and technology. Finally thebook explores posthumanism’s roots in disability studies,animal studies and bioethics to underscore the constructed natureof ‘normalcy’ in bodies, and the singularity of speciesand life itself. As this book powerfully demonstrates, posthumanism marks a radicalreassessment of the human as constituted by symbiosis,assimilation, difference and dependence upon and with otherspecies. Mapping the terrain of these far-reaching debates,Posthumanism will be an invaluable companion to students ofcultural studies and modern and contemporary literature.
Okdisiplinli Al Malarda Posth Manizm
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Author : Sümeyra Buran
language : tr
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Release Date : 2022-10-30
Okdisiplinli Al Malarda Posth Manizm written by Sümeyra Buran and has been published by Transnational Press London this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-30 with Philosophy categories.
Çokdisiplinli Çalışmalarda Posthümanizm, tüm bilimsel ve teknolojik gelişme ve dönüşümleri ele almayı hedeflemekte, posthümanist teorilerin çokludisiplinli çalışmalarda nasıl kavramsallaştırıldığını insanı evrenin merkezine koyan Batı toplumlarının yüzyıllardır ideolojisini ve zihniyetini besleyen insan/doğa, insan/insan olmayan ikili düşüncesini kökten sorgulayarak incelemektedir. Bu bağlamda bu kitap, posthümanizm ile çeşitli farklı disiplinler arasındaki ilişkiyi posthümanist kuramsal yaklaşımlar çerçevesinde derinlemesine incelerken, posthüman yaşam tarzlarının yansımalarını çok disiplinli çalışmalarda tartışmaktadır. Bu tür seçilmiş çalışmalarda posthümanizmin feminizm, ekoeleştiri, biyopolitika ve transhümanizm gibi kuramlarla ve sinema, performans dansları, biyo-sanat, felsefe, mühendislik, uluslararası ilişkiler, siyaset gibi disiplinlerle olan yakın ilişkisi, bu kuramlara katkıları ve bu kuramların posthümanist kuramlardan nasıl beslendiği doğrultusunda incelenmektedir. Posthümanist bakış açısının, insanın artık istisnai bir varlık olarak değil, gezegeni paylaştığı diğer türlerle doğup ortaya çıkan ve gelişen bir “birlik” olarak gördüğü yaşadığımız dünyayı nasıl açıkladığı ve algıladığı bu disiplinlerle sorgulanmaktadır. Kitap, tekno-bilimsel kültürlerin çoğaldığı, küresel ekonomik zorlukların, çevresel yıkımın ve doğal afetlerin arttığı, dijitalleşmenin yaygınlaştığı dünyaya, insanlık ve insan dışı varlıklar için nasıl bir yaşam ve düzen sunduğu sorularına yanıt arar. İnsan ve insan olmayan varlıklar arasındaki geleneksel sınırlar, teknolojik, biyolojik ve çevresel düzeylerde aşınır ve bulanıklaşır. Bu yeni oluşumda alternatif fikir ve düşüncelerin sunulmasında çokdisiplinli çalışmaların katkısını inceleyen bu serinin ikinci kitabı, okuyucuya insanın değişen dünyasını ve diğer canlı ve cansız varlıklar arasındaki ilişkiyi anlaması için farklı çalışmalar aracılığıyla yeni kapılar açmaktadır. “Son derece eleştirel, üretken disiplinlerarası bilim insanının, düşünürün ve sanatçının bulunduğu bu kitaba eşlik etmek benim için bir zevktir. Kitapta okuyucu, teknolojik açıdan doymuş önemli sorulara çevre dostu, insan yanlısı (posthüman dan ziyade) ve çoktürlü yaklaşımları bulacaktır. Bu zengin kitap beni eski sloganıma geri götürüyor: “Yeryüzünde hayatta kalmak için; siborglar!” - Donna J. Haraway “Bu kitaptaki makaleler son derece usta, özgün ve günümüz dünyası için faydalı yazılardır: hem eski hem de yeni önemli yaklaşımları içermektedir. Bu yaklaşımlarla bu projeye dahil olmuş olmak beni gururlandırmaktadır”. - Kevin LaGrandeur “Birçok posthümanizm(ler) vardır. Bu uyumsuzlukta ilginç olan şey, posthüman veya posthümanizm denen bir şeyin olabileceği gerçeğidir. Posthüman düşüncede bu çalışma göz önüne alındığında, mühendislik, sibernetik, bilişim, genetik, sanat, felsefe ve edebiyat çalışmaları gibi çeşitli çokdisiplinli bakış açılarından içerdiği düşünülürse, posthüman veya posthümanizminin ne anlama geldiğine dair merkezi bir tutum hususunda henüz ikna edici bir uzlaşma yoktur. Buna ek olarak, Çokdisiplinli Çalışmalarda Posthümanizm (Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies) kesinlikle bu uyumsuz tanımlamaları beslemese de, içeriğindeki araştırmalar bu kavramların ne anlama gelebileceğini aydınlatmaya ve posthüman durumumuzu ortaya çıkarmaya yardımcı olmaktadır. İşte tam da bu nedenle Çokdisiplinli Çalışmalarda Posthümanizm gibi çalışmalar, posthümanla ilgili devam eden disiplinlerarası araştırma için elzemdir.” - Sidney I. Dobrin İçindekiler Önsöz: “Posthüman/lar/izm/ler” (“Posthuman/s/ism/s”) (Sidney I. Dobrin) Bölüm 1: “Giriş: Çokdisiplinli Posthümanizm/ler” (Sümeyra Buran ve Pelin Kümbet) Bölüm 2: “Antroposen, Kapitalosen, Plantasyonosen, Kthulusen: Akrabalık Kurmak” (“Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin”) (Donna J. Haraway) (Çev. Muhsin Yanar) Bölüm 3: “Posthümanist Edimsellik: Maddenin Nasıl Maddeleştiğini/Önem Arz Ettiğini Kavramaya Doğru” (“Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter”) (Karen Barad) (Çev. Şafak Horzum) Bölüm 4: ‘“Biz’ Bu İşte Hep Beraberiz, Fakat Bir ve Aynı Değiliz” (“‘We’ Are In This Together, But We Are Not One and the Same”) (Rosi Braidotti) (Çev. Muhsin Yanar) Bölüm 5: Eleştirel Bir Akım Olarak Posthümanizmin Edebiyat ve Sanattaki Algısı (Kamil Aydın) Bölüm 6: Çoklu Medya Türlerinde Posthümanizm ve Anlatıların Eyleyiciliği (Başak Ağın) Bölüm 7: Post-Hümanizm ve Posthümanist-Feminizm (Meryem Ayan) Bölüm 8: Uluslararası İlişkilerde Posthumanist Dönüşüm: Yeni Materyalizm, Ekolojik Kriz ve Küresel Siyaset (Yelda Erçandırlı) Bölüm 9: Post-Hümanizm, Yapay Zeka ve Bilişsel Robotlar (Tahir Çetin Akıncı ve Alfredo Martinez-Morales) Bölüm 10: Yapay Zekâ ve Posthüman, Postseküler Din: Kişisel Asistanlarda İnanç Önyargısına Bir Bakış (Çağdaş Dedeoğlu) Bölüm 11: Posthümanizm/Transhümanizm Çerçevesinde Yapay Zekâyla Desteklenmiş Çevreci ve İklim Dostu Enerji Kavramına Yaklaşım (Selman Çağman) Bölüm 12: Posthümanist Eleştirinin Vahasında, Kapsayıcı bir Tiyatronun Gölgesinde (Emre Koyuncuoğlu) Bölüm 13: Yazında ve Sinemada Posthümanizm (Simay Turan) Bölüm 14: Ridley Scott’ın Bıçak Sırtı (Blade Runner) Filminde İnsan Arayışı (Mahinur Gözde Kasurka) Bölüm 15: Posthümanist Sanat Söylemi (Ayşe Azamet) Bölüm 16: Müzik ve Posthüman (Elif Aykanat Özcan ve Yunus Yapalı) Bölüm 17: Posthümanist Ekoeleştiri ve Covid-19: İnsanmerkezcilik Sonrası Doğaya Bakış (Erden El) Bölüm 18: Posthümanizm Çağında Biyo-Politika ve Geliştirme Teknolojileri (Yunus Tuncel) Bölüm 19: Pek İnsanca Bir Teşebbüs: Posthümanizm ve Etik (Emine Aydoğan) Bölüm 20: Posthümanizm, Tıp ve Biyoetik İlişkisi (Sadık Toprak) Bölüm 21: İnsan Sonrası Siborg Aşkı Çerçevesinde İnsan-Makine Etkileşimi (Melike Şahinol) Bölüm 22: Posthümanizm ve Cinsiyet Sorunsalı (Muhsin Yanar) Bölüm 23: İnsan Sonrası Erkek(lik): Saç Ekimi Örneği (Melike Şahinol ve Burak Taşdizen) Bölüm 24: Posthümanist Gelecekte Makine Yaratan Makineler: Bilimkurgu Sinemasında Yeni Frankenstein’lar (Yasin Yeşilyurt) Sonsöz: “Posthümanizm Bizi Kurtarabilir mi?” (“Can Posthumanism Save Us?”) (Kevin LaGrandeur) (Çev. Ömer Faruk Peksöz)
Feminist Posthumanism In Contemporary Science Fiction Film And Media
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Author : Julia A. Empey
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-08-24
Feminist Posthumanism In Contemporary Science Fiction Film And Media written by Julia A. Empey and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-24 with Performing Arts categories.
Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond places posthumanism and feminist theory into dialogue with contemporary science fiction film and media. This essay collection is intimately invested in the debates around the posthuman and the critical posthumanities within a feminist critical-theoretical framework. In this posthumanist light, science fiction as a genre allows for new imaginings of human-technological relations, while it can also be the site of a critique of human exceptionalism and essentialism. In this way, science fiction affords unique opportunities for the scholarly investigation of the relevance and relative applicability of specific posthumanist themes and questions in a particularly rich and wide-ranging popular cultural field of production. One of the reasons for this suitability is the genre's historically longstanding relationship with the critical investigation of gender, specifically the position and relative empowerment of women. The original analyses presented here pay close attention to audiovisual style (including game mechanics), facilitating the critical interrogation of the issues and questions around posthumanism. Where typically the mention of SF in the posthumanist context calls to mind a whole set of (often clichéd) tropes-the cyborg, technologically augmented bodies, AI subjectivities, etc.-this volume's thirteen chapters analyze specific examples of contemporary SF cinema that engage in meaningful ways with the burgeoning field of critical posthumanism, and that utilize such films to interrogate posthumanist and feminist as well as humanistic ideas.
Posthumanism And Latin X American Science Fiction
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Author : Antonio Córdoba
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-11-23
Posthumanism And Latin X American Science Fiction written by Antonio Córdoba and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualizes the operations of other, non-human forms of agency, and engages in environmentalist theory in ways that are estranging and open to new forms of species companionship. Essays cover literature, film, TV shows, and music, grouped in three sections: “Posthumanist Subjects” examines Latin(x) American iterations of some of the most common figurations of the posthuman, such as the cyborg and virtual environments and selves; “Slow Violence and Environmental Threats” understands that posthumanist meditations in the hemisphere take place in a material and cultural context shaped by the catastrophic destruction of the environment; the chapters in “Posthumanist Others” shows how the reimagination of the self and the world that posthumanism offers may be an opportunity to break the hold that oppressive systems have over the ways in which societies are constructed and governed.
Posthuman Capital And Biotechnology In Contemporary Novels
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Author : Justin Omar Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Posthuman Capital And Biotechnology In Contemporary Novels written by Justin Omar Johnston and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Fiction categories.
This book examines several distinctive literary figurations of posthuman embodiment as they proliferate across a range of internationally acclaimed contemporary novels: clones in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, animal-human hybrids in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, toxic bodies in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, and cyborgs in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods. While these works explore the transformational power of the “biotech century,” they also foreground the key role human capital theory has played in framing human belonging as an aspirational category that is always and structurally just out of reach, making contemporary subjects never-human-enough. In these novels, the dystopian character of human capital theory is linked to fantasies of apocalyptic release. As such, these novels help expose how two interconnected genres of futurity (the dystopian and the apocalyptic) work in tandem to propel each other forward so that fears of global disaster become alibis for dystopian control, which, in turn, becomes the predicate for intensifying catastrophes. In analyzing these novels, Justin Omar Johnston draws attention to the entanglement of bodies in technological environments, economic networks, and deteriorating ecological settings.
Posthumanism
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Author : Stefan Herbrechter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Posthumanism written by Stefan Herbrechter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Human beings categories.
Transhumanism And Posthumanism In Twenty First Century Narrative
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Author : Sonia Baelo-Allué
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-05
Transhumanism And Posthumanism In Twenty First Century Narrative written by Sonia Baelo-Allué and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of the 21st century, by Dave Eggers, William Gibson, John Shirley, Tom McCarthy, Jeff Vandermeer, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, Cixin Liu and Helen Marshall. Some of these works engage in the premises and perils of transhumanism, while others explore the qualities of the (post)human in a variety of dystopian futures marked by the planetary influence of human action. From a critical posthumanist perspective that questions anthropocentrism, human exceptionalism and the centrality of the ‘human’ subject in the era of the Anthropocene, the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.