Postnaturalism - 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 Postnaturalism write by Shane Denson. This book was released on 2014-07-31. Postnaturalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. »Postnaturalism« offers an original account of human-technological co-evolution and argues that film and media theory, in particular, needs to be re-evaluated from the perspective of our material interfaces with a constantly changing environment. Extrapolating from Frankenstein films and the resonances they establish between a hybrid monster and the spectator hooked into the machinery of the cinema, Shane Denson engages debates in science studies and philosophy of technology to rethink histories of cinema, media, technology, and ultimately of the affective channels of our own embodiment. With a foreword by media theorist Mark B. N. Hansen.
Transmedia Creatures
Transmedia Creatures - 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 Transmedia Creatures write by Francesca Saggini. This book was released on 2018-10-19. Transmedia Creatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Eco-Phenomenology: Life, Human Life, Post-Human Life in the Harmony of the Cosmos
Eco-Phenomenology: Life, Human Life, Post-Human Life in the Harmony of the Cosmos - 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 Eco-Phenomenology: Life, Human Life, Post-Human Life in the Harmony of the Cosmos write by William S. Smith. This book was released on 2018-07-03. Eco-Phenomenology: Life, Human Life, Post-Human Life in the Harmony of the Cosmos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents discussions on a wide range of topics focused on eco-phenomenology and the interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary environmental thought. Starting out with a Tymieniecka Memorial chapter, the book continues with papers on the foundations, theories, readings and philosophical sources of eco-phenomenology. In addition, it examines issues of phenomenological anthropology, ecological perspectives of the human relationship to nature, and phenomenology of the living body and the virtual body. Furthermore, the volume engages in a dialogue with contemporary behavioral sciences on topics such as eco-alienation, sustainability, and the human relationship to the earth in the context of the cosmos.
Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments
Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments - 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 Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments write by Jörn Rüsen. This book was released on 2021-04-25. Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book describes humanism in a systematic and historical perspective. It analyzes its manifestation and function in cultural studies and its role in the present. Within the book, special attention is given to the intention of contemporary humanism to overcome ethno-centric elements in the cultural orientation of contemporary living conditions and to develop humane dimensions of this orientation. This is linked to a fundamental critique of the current post-human self-understanding of the humanities. Furthermore, the intercultural aspect in the understanding of humanism is emphasized; for non-Western cultures also have their own humanistic traditions. Two further aspects are also addressed: the Holocaust as the most radical challenge to humanistic thinking and the relationship of humanism to nature. Sitting at the intersection of history and philosophy, the book is perfect for those exploring humanism from an historical perspective.
Gender and Environment in Science Fiction
Gender and Environment in 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 Gender and Environment in Science Fiction write by Bridgitte Barclay. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Gender and Environment in Science Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of ways that gender and “nature” interact in science fiction films and fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new ones. Science fiction asks questions to propose other ways of living. It asks what if, and that question is the basis for alternative narratives of ourselves and the world we are a part of. What if humans could terraform planets? What if we could create human-nonhuman hybrids? What if artificial intelligence gains consciousness? What if we could realize kinship with other species through heightened empathy or traumatic experiences? What if we imagine a world without oil? How are race, gender, and nature interrelated? The texts analyzed in this book ask these questions and others, exploring how humans and nonhumans are connected; how nonhuman biologies can offer diverse ways to think about human sex, gender, and sexual orientation; and how interpretive strategies can subvert the messages of older films and written texts.
