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1 online resource |
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Introduction; 1 (Post)humanism and Technocapitalist Modernity:; Technodystopia; Biopolitics, the inhuman and the resurgence of humanism; Postbiological transhumanism (and its critics); Conclusion; 2 Modernity and the (Re)enchantment of the World:; Spirituality, technology and transcendence in E-Dem; Las playas del otro mundo: Aztec divination and Renaissance magic in imperialist modernity; From animism to avatars: Cybershamanism in Los perros salvajes; Conclusion; 3 Archaeologies of Media and the Baroque: |
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The baroque aesthetic as media archaeology; Angelology; Codices; Conclusion; 4 Steampunk, Cyberpunk and the Ethics of Embodiment:; Steampunk and the ethics of things in 1899: cuando los tiempos chocan; Cybernetics, communication and control in Policía del Karma; Conclusion; 5 Urban Topologies and Posthuman Assemblages:; Consumer culture; The topological city; Comic book topologies; Conclusion; 6 Post-Anthropocentric Ecologies and Embodied Cognition:; Scale and fractal self-similarity; Human and non-human semiosis; Embodied cognition and the graphic novel; Conclusion |
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7 Intermediality and Graphic Novel as Performance: Sound and image; Soundscapes and landscapes; Text and performance; Conclusion: Cybershamanism and Afrofuturism; Conclusion:; Notes. |
| Summary |
Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which humans are bound. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Graphic novels -- Latin America -- History and criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1911576461 9781911576464 1911576453 9781911576457 (OCoLC)989702666 |
| ISBN |
9781911576495 (electronic bk.) |
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1911576496 (electronic bk.) |
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9781911576501 (electronic bk.) |
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191157650X (electronic bk.) |
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1911576461 |
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9781911576464 |
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1911576453 |
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9781911576457 |
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