Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction write by Antonio Córdoba. This book was released on 2022-11-23. Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualizes the operations of other, non-human forms of agency, and engages in environmentalist theory in ways that are estranging and open to new forms of species companionship. Essays cover literature, film, TV shows, and music, grouped in three sections: “Posthumanist Subjects” examines Latin(x) American iterations of some of the most common figurations of the posthuman, such as the cyborg and virtual environments and selves; “Slow Violence and Environmental Threats” understands that posthumanist meditations in the hemisphere take place in a material and cultural context shaped by the catastrophic destruction of the environment; the chapters in “Posthumanist Others” shows how the reimagination of the self and the world that posthumanism offers may be an opportunity to break the hold that oppressive systems have over the ways in which societies are constructed and governed.
Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America
Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America write by Edward King. This book was released on 2017-07-03. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which humans are bound to their non-human environment, and these ideas are productively drawn out in relation to posthuman thought and experience. The book draws together a range of recent graphic novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, many of which experiment with questions of transmediality, the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and a new form of ethics for a posthuman world. Praise for Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America '...well-referenced and… well considered - the analyses it brings are overall well-executed and insightful...' Image and Narrative, Jan 2018, vol 18, no 4
For the Love of Robots
For the Love of Robots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook For the Love of Robots write by Grace A. Martin. This book was released on 2015. For the Love of Robots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cosmos Latinos
Cosmos Latinos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmos Latinos write by Andrea L. Bell. This book was released on 2003-07-31. Cosmos Latinos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English.
Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction write by Anita Tarr. This book was released on 2018-04-27. Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner, Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock, Ferne Merrylees, Lars Schmeink, Anita Tarr, Tony M. Vinci, and Donna R. White For centuries, humanism has provided a paradigm for what it means to be human: a rational, unique, unified, universal, autonomous being. Recently, however, a new philosophical approach, posthumanism, has questioned these assumptions, asserting that being human is not a fixed state but one always dynamic and evolving. Restrictive boundaries are no longer in play, and we do not define who we are by delineating what we are not (animal, machine, monster). There is no one aspect that makes a being human—self-awareness, emotion, artistic expression, or problem-solving—since human characteristics reside in other species along with shared DNA. Instead, posthumanism looks at the ways our bodies, intelligence, and behavior connect and interact with the environment, technology, and other species. In Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World, editors Anita Tarr and Donna R. White collect twelve essays that explore this new discipline's relevance in young adult literature. Adolescents often tangle with many issues raised by posthumanist theory, such as body issues. The in-betweenness of adolescence makes stories for young adults ripe for posthumanist study. Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism, including democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analyzing recent works for young adults, including award-winners like Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker and Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion, as well as the works of Octavia Butler and China Miéville.
