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Alien Chic: Posthumanism and the Other Within

Autor Neil Badmington
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 sep 2004
Alien Chic provides a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking ourselves why our attitudes to aliens have shifted from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others.
Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens, inscribed in films such as The War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks!, Mission to Mars and Independence Day; and how thinkers such as Descartes, Barthes, Freud, Lyotard and Derrida have conceptualised what it means to be human (and post-human).
Alien Chic examines the the concept of posthumanism in an age when the lines between what is human and what is non-human are increasingly blurred by advances in science and technology, for example genetic cloning and engineering, and the development of AI and cyborgs.
Questioning whether our current embracing of all things 'alien' - in the form of extraterrestrial gadgets or abduction narratives, for instance - stems from a desire to reaffirm ourselves as 'human', this is an original and thought-provoking contribution to the study of posthumanism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415310239
ISBN-10: 0415310237
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction: They All Laughed  1. Reading the Red Planet; or, Little Green Men at Work  2. It Lives!; or, the Persistence of Humanism  3. I Want to Be Leaving; or, Tracking Alien Abduction  4. Alien Objects, Human Subjects  5. A Crisis of Versus: Rereading the Alien  Conclusion: From Difference to Differance (With an 'a')

Notă biografică

Neil Badmington is Lecturer in Cultural Criticism and English Literature at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University. He is the editor of Posthumanism (Palgrave, 2000)

Descriere

From The War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks!, Mission to Mars and Independence Day; Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens and how thinkers such as Descartes, Barthes, Freud, Lyotard and Derrida have conceptualised what it means to be human (and post-human).