Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

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Sherryl Vint

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture

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Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically respond to a distinctive twenty-first-century biopolitics. This book theorizes how biotechnology intervenes in the very processes of biological function, reshaping life itself to serve economic ends. Linking fictional texts with material examples, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction shows how these practices are linked to new modes of exploitative economic relations that cannot be redressed by human rights. It concludes with a posthumanist reframing of the value of life that grounds itself elsewhere than in capitalist logics, a vision that, in a Covid age, might become fundamental to a new politics of ecological relations.

Author Biography:

Sherryl Vint is a professor at the University of California, Riverside, where she directs the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. She has published widely on speculative fiction and posthumanism, including Science Fiction (2021) for MIT's Essential Knowledge series, and the edited collection After the Human (2021). She is a recipient of the SFRA's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Release date Australia

October 7th, 2021

Author

Sherryl Vint

Series

Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture

Pages

280

Audience

Professional & Vocational

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Worked examples or Exercises

Dimensions

158x235x20

ISBN-13

9781108839006

Product ID

34661343

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