Representing (post)human enhancement technologies in twenty-first century US fiction:
This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different chapters provide, from the double perspective of the opti...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different chapters provide, from the double perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced approach of critical posthumanism, an overview of the narrative strategies used by the writers to explore the possibilities that biotechnology, digital technologies and cryonics open up to transcend our human limitations, while also warning their readers of their most nefarious consequences. Ultimately, the book puts forward the claim that even if the writers approach the subject from a variety of perspectives and using different narrative styles and techniques, they all share a critical posthumanist fear that an unrestrained and unquestioned use of technology for enhancement purposes may bring about disembodiment and dehumanization |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 188 Seiten 453 gr |
| ISBN: | 9781032343334 9781032232416 |
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Contents vii Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Transhumanism and Critical Posthumanism 2 Literary Representations of the Trans- and the Posthuman 10 Cyberpunk, Postcyberpunk and Beyond 14 1 Richard Powers’s Generosity: An Enhancement (2009): A Metafictional Reflection on the Biotechnological Pursuit of Happiness 28 Generosity: An Enhancement and Transhumanism: The Biotechnological Pursuit of Happiness 28 Critical Posthumanism and Metafiction in Generosity: An Enhancement 45 2 Dave Eggers’s The Circle (2013): When Digital Utopia Meets Dystopia The Circle and Transhumanism: Social Media Tools and Surveillance Devices 74 Critical Posthumanism, Utopia, and Dystopia in The Circle 88 74
vi Contents 3 Don DeLillo’s Zero К (2016): Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation 120 Zero К and Transhumanism: Life Extension Technologies 120 Critical Posthumanism and Trauma in Zero К 134 Conclusion Index 168 180 |
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