Biopunk dystopias : genetic engineering, society and science fiction /
'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociol...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Liverpool University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
56. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781781383322 1781383324 9781786944115 1786944111 |