Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
Title Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction PDF eBook
Author Sherryl Vint
Publisher
Pages
Release 2021-10
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ISBN 9781108979382

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"This book demonstrates how speculative fiction elucidates the ways the regime of epivitality enables the ongoing real subsumption of life by capital. At the same time, however, the fictions I analyze also provide imaginative resources to counteract this regime's biopolitical sorting of life into valued and disposable configurations. The importance of articulating a liveable life outside of this logic is why this book is also a project of posthuman ethics. New biotechnological entities such as GMO animals created as research tools or immortal cell lines derived from human bodies are key exemplars of what I argue is the ongoing real subsumption of life by capital. Yet, as the chapters in this book will theorize, this real subsumption of life is pervasive and not simply embodied in these innovative products of biotechnology. In industries such as cryonics, IVF and surrogacy services, transplantation and other biological harvesting practices, synthetic biology, and clinical labor, subjects and objects, organic and manufactured beings, persons and things blur into one another as biology becomes caught up in projects of bioeconomic innovation, and as capital becomes interested in humans less for their capacity to provide labor-power and more for their capacity as biological entities"--

Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
Title Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction PDF eBook
Author Sherryl Vint
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 283
Release 2021-10-07
Genre History
ISBN 1108839002

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A theorization of how the bioeconomy and biotechnology remake 'life itself,' creating crises in ethics and governance.

The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Title The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction PDF eBook
Author David Sergeant
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 239
Release 2022-12-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1009279912

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A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where we live now? The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near future splits between two divergent paths. One seeks to retreat from climate change and the disruption it threatens to affluent lifestyles; the other tries to imagine new forms of community, and radical change, but struggles to locate a genre adequate to the task. It in this struggle, however, that we begin to glimpse the outlines of an emergent near future form: a revolution fit for the Anthropocene.

Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction

Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction
Title Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction PDF eBook
Author Sherryl Vint
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 360
Release 2022-05-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3030961923

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Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as a social technology, and posthuman visions of a world beyond gender, this book demonstrates how feminist speculative fiction offers an urgently needed response to the intersections of women’s bodies and technology. This collection brings together authors from Europe, Japan, the US and the UK to consider speculative films and texts, reproductive technologies and food futures, and opportunities to rethink family, aging, gender and sexuality, and community through feminist speculative fiction, a social technology for building better futures.

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Title The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction PDF eBook
Author Mark Bould
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 537
Release 2024-06-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1040042953

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The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years. Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to emphasise new geographical areas of cultural production and the growing importance of media beyond print. It also updates and expands the range of frameworks that are relevant to the study of science fiction. The periodisation has been reframed to include new chapters focusing on science fiction produced outside the Anglophone context, including South Asian, Latin American, Chinese and African diasporic science fiction. The contributors use both well- established critical and theoretical approaches and embrace a range of new ones, including biopolitics, climate crisis, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, energy humanities, game studies, medical humanities, new materialisms and sonic studies. This book is an invaluable resource for students and established scholars seeking to understand the vast range of engagements with science fiction in scholarship today.

Care, Control and COVID-19

Care, Control and COVID-19
Title Care, Control and COVID-19 PDF eBook
Author Raili Marling
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 294
Release 2023-06-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110799448

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This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective. The biopolitical measures taken globally in response to the crisis have led to previously unheard-of restrictions in liberal societies, resulting in deep and potentially lasting transformations both in social structures and interpersonal relationships. Many researchers have addressed the Covid-19 crisis as a political or epidemiological challenge, but few have paid sufficient attention to the culturally specific reactions and cultural representations of the human beings at the centre of events. Literary analyses capture this human component and give insights into different reactions to, and protests against, the health-political measures addressing the crisis. This book puts the notion of biopolitics, first extensively theorised in the 1970s, to work in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, and uses literary case studies as starting points for discussions of contemporary politics, media, and legal and surveillance regimes. It brings together eleven scholars from six countries with the shared aim of combining literary and philosophical expertise to create a better understanding of the changes in society and political attitudes induced by the ongoing pandemic.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction
Title The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction PDF eBook
Author Lisa Yaszek
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 568
Release 2023-02-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000826287

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction (SF) especially—but not exclusively—as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world. This global volume builds upon the traditions of interdisciplinary inquiry by connecting established topics in gender studies and science fiction studies with emergent ideas from researchers in different media. Taken together, they challenge conventional generic boundaries; provide new ways of approaching familiar texts; recover lost artists and introduce new ones; connect the revival of old, hate-based politics with the increasing visibility of imagined futures for all; and show how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations inspire new models of artistic, technoscientific, and political practice. Their chapters are grouped into five conversations—about the history of gender and genre, theoretical frameworks, subjectivities, medias and transmedialities, and transtemporalities—that are central to discussions of gender and SF in the current moment. A range of both emerging and established names in media, literature, and cultural studies engage with a huge diversity of topics including eco-criticism, animal studies, cyborg and posthumanist theory, masculinity, critical race studies, Indigenous futurisms, Black girlhood, and gaming. This is an essential resource for students and scholars studying gender, sexuality, and/or science fiction.