Biopunk Dystopias
'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 vie...
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2021
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| description | '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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-289532025-07-21T15:56:57Z Biopunk Dystopias Schmeink, Lars Literature Science Fiction Dystopia Genetic engineering Humanism Late modernity Posthuman Posthumanism Utopia thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FL Science fiction thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FL Science fiction '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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2017-03-30 23:55 2020-03-16 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:42:59Z 2017-01-27 book 626391 OCN: 968721479 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31629 9781781383322 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28953 eng Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31629/1/626391.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31629/1/626391.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31629/1/626391.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31629/1/626391.pdf Liverpool University Press 10.26530/oapen_626391 10.26530/oapen_626391 aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781781383322 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Liverpool 100393 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection open access |
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