Mapping the posthuman /
This book works to delineate some of the major routes by which science and art intersect. Structured according to the origin myths of the posthuman that continue to shape the idea of the human in our technological modernity, this volume gives space to narratives of alter-modernity that resonate with...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2024].
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| Series: | Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture.
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| Summary: | This book works to delineate some of the major routes by which science and art intersect. Structured according to the origin myths of the posthuman that continue to shape the idea of the human in our technological modernity, this volume gives space to narratives of alter-modernity that resonate with Ursula K. Le Guin's call for a new kind of story which exposes the violence and exploitation driven by a sustained belief in human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism and cultural superiority. In this context, the posthuman myths of multispecies flourishing given in this collection, which are situated across a range of historical times and locations, and media and modalities, are to be thought of as kernels of possible futures that can only be realized through collective endeavor. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032334615 1032334614 9781032345239 1032345233 |