The ex-human: science fiction and the fate of our species
"The "what-will-become-of-us genre" is a distinctive feature of the post-World War II literary landscape, for the obvious reason that with World War II humans achieved the power to destroy themselves-and the awful awareness of that power. Perhaps no genre has focused on the collapse o...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The "what-will-become-of-us genre" is a distinctive feature of the post-World War II literary landscape, for the obvious reason that with World War II humans achieved the power to destroy themselves-and the awful awareness of that power. Perhaps no genre has focused on the collapse of civilization or the destruction on man so insistently and so imaginatively as science fiction. Increasingly, science fiction has been read in ways that speak to environmental threats and the effects of the Anthropocene. In this sense, science fiction, as Michael Berube argues, offers a radical interpretation of the human - one that challenges our species parochialism not only from the perspective of some greater galactic alien or universal intelligence but from the perspective of the world we share from the living creatures we already know. In Ex-Human, Michael Berube, who teaches a very popular science fiction class, discusses a variety of novels and films and how they respond to the question of what will become of us as a species-and whether one can fruitfully imagine the world without us. Writers and works discussed include Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Liu Cixin, Margaret Atwood, The Matrix, 2001, and Blade Runner. Drawing on his interpretations of the novels and films and the responses of other readers and viewers, including his students, Berube provides a lively yet sobering account of how science fiction imagines the end of the planet with our without humans"-- |
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Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii List ofAbbreviations xix Introduction: Learning to Die i I The Augmentation of the Complexity and Intensity of the Field of Intelligent Life: The Potential Ex-Human of The Left Hand ofDarkness 31 2 Desperate Measures: Justifiable Despair in The Three-Body Problem and Oryx and Crake 59 3 Inherit the Wasteland: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Cede the Planet to the Smart Machines 105 4 Better Children: Octavia Butler and Genetic Destiny 147 Epilogue: Just Kill Me Now 199 Notes 217 Index 271
ACING THREATS Äe climate change sä nuclear warfare, science F fiction authors hove conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinc tion. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? In a lively, conversational style, Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of navels by writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Marg Liu Cixin, Philip K. Dick, and Octavia Butler, as well as films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and the Terminator and Matrix franchises. For all readers wor ried about the fate of humanity, The Ex-Human is an entertaining yet sobering account of how classic and contemporary works of SF envision the world without us. |
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