Edition Kulturwissenschaft
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Edition Kulturwissenschaft

Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction

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Edition Kulturwissenschaft

Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction

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About This Book

Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological catastrophe, digitalisation and biotechnology. She proposes that fiction and its modes of aesthetic simulation and emotional engagement offer a different way of knowing and judging possible futures. From a critical posthumanist angle, she discusses works ranging from Don DeLillo's Zero K (2017) and Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013) to Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 as well as Avatar (2009), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017) among many others.

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Publisher
transcript Verlag
Year
2023
ISBN
9783839468203
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. 2 Ethics for the Future through Fiction
  6. 3 Future World Ecologies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 (2017) and James Cameron’s Avatar (2009)
  7. 4 Transhumanist Futures: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) and Wally Pfister’s Transcendence (2014)
  8. 5 Futuristic Digital Neoliberalism: Spike Jonze’s Her (2013) and Dave Eggers’s The Circle (2013)
  9. 6 Biopolitics of the Future: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2006) and Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016)
  10. 7 More than Human?: Threats of AI in Dennis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Alex Garland’s ExMachina (2014)
  11. 8 Posthumanist Futures: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy (2003, 2006, 2013) and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009)
  12. 9 Contemporary Imaginaries of the Future
  13. Works Cited