| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; [56] |
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 56.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Dystopia, Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Liquid Modernity -- The Anthropocene, the Posthuman, and the Animal -- Science, Family and the Monstrous Progeny -- Individuality, Choice, and Genetic Manipulation -- The Utopian, the Dystopian, and the Heroic Deeds of One -- 9/11 and the Wasted Lives of Posthuman Zombies. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index. |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Genetic engineering in literature.
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Dystopias in literature.
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Biotechnology in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Fiction and related items.
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Science fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Biotechnology in literature. (OCoLC)fst01201108
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Dystopias in literature. (OCoLC)fst00900374
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Genetic engineering in literature. (OCoLC)fst01903340
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Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01108566
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schmeink, Lars. Biopunk dystopias : genetic engineering, society and science fiction. Oxford : Liverpool University Press, ©2016 9781781383766 |
| ISBN |
9781781383322 (electronic bk.) |
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1781383324 (electronic bk.) |
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9781781383766 (hbk.) |
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1781383766 |
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