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Posthuman Biopolitics
The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski | Bruce Clarke
Taschenbuch
2021 Springer International Publishing
Auflage: 1. Auflage
XIII, 187 Seiten; XIII, 187 p. 1 illus.; 21 cm x 14.8 cm
Sprache: English
ISBN: 978-3-030-36488-5
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This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski.
Posthuman Biopolitics
consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski’s fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical, cultural, and theoretical treatment of her characters, plots, and storyworlds. Her novels treat feminism in relation to scientific practice, resistance to domination, pacifism versus militarism, the extension of human rights to nonhuman and posthuman actors, biopolitics and posthuman ethics, and symbiosis and communication across planetary scales.
Posthuman Biopolitics
explores the breadth and depth of Joan Slonczewski’s vision, uncovering the reflective ethical practice that informs her science fiction.
“Collectively, these essays provide a marvelous starting point for the continued exploration of the significant work of Joan Slonczewski … . The fiction of Joan Slonczewski … merits continued academic study as well as incorporation into undergraduate and graduate courses. Posthuman Biopolitics is an excellent collection. It should be in every academic library … .” (Bruce Lindsley Rockwood, SFRA Review, Vol. 52 (1), 2022)
This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski.
Posthuman Biopolitics
consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski’s fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical, cultural, and theoretical treatment of her characters, plots, and storyworlds. Her novels treat feminism in relation to scientific practice, resistance to domination, pacifism versus militarism, the extension of human rights to nonhuman and posthuman actors, biopolitics and posthuman ethics, and symbiosis and communication across planetary scales.
Posthuman Biopolitics
explores the breadth and depth of Joan Slonczewski’s vision, uncovering the reflective ethical practice that informs her science fiction.
1. An Interview with Joan Slonczewski.- 2. Posthuman Narration in the Elysium Cycle,
Bruce Clarke
.- 3.
A Door into
Ocean
as a Model for Feminist Science,
Chrisy Tidwell
.- 4. “Then Came Pantropy”: Grotesque Bodies, Multispecies Flourishing, and Human-Animal Relationships in
A Door Into Ocean,
Chris Pak
.- 5. Bodies That Remember: History and Age in
The Children Star
and
Brain Plague, Derek J. Thiess
.- 6. Microbial Life and Posthuman Ethics from
The Children Star
to
The Highest Frontier, Sherryl Vint
.- 7. The Future at Stake: Modes of Speculation in
The Highest Frontier
and
Microbiology: An Evolving Science, Colin Milburn
.- 8. Wisdom is an Odd Number: Community and the Anthropocene in
The Highest Frontier, Alexa T. Dodd
.
Bruce Clarke
is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science in the Department of English at Texas Tech University, USA. His books include
Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene
(2020) and
Neocybernetics and Narrative
(2014). With Manuela Rossini, Clarke also co-edited
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman
(2017).