Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
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This book demonstrates how developments in biotechnology such as cloning, synthetic biology, surrogate pregnancies, organ transplants and more have significant implications for personhood, ethics, and governance. Drawing attention to the commodification of life, it shows how the biological functions of life itself are shaped to economic agendas.
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Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction by Sherryl Vint
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.
'… rich and compelling … the larger political and ethical ramifications of Vint's project in Biopolitical Futures could not be more urgent or clear' Hugh C. O'Connell, Science Fiction Studies
'Recommended …' M. L. Robertson, Choice
'Biopolitical Futures examines a truly impressive range of twenty-first century speculative fiction. … [the book] will be of particular interest to students and scholars of speculative fiction studies, feminist science and technology studies, posthuman studies, and related fields. Readers will come away inspired to explore, research, and teach many new titles alongside Vint's book.' Sharon Tran, American Literary History
'Recommended …' M. L. Robertson, Choice
'Biopolitical Futures examines a truly impressive range of twenty-first century speculative fiction. … [the book] will be of particular interest to students and scholars of speculative fiction studies, feminist science and technology studies, posthuman studies, and related fields. Readers will come away inspired to explore, research, and teach many new titles alongside Vint's book.' Sharon Tran, American Literary History
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108839006 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108839002 |
| Title | Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction |
| Author | Sherryl Vint |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Twenty-First-Century Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2021-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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