Sherryl Vint (Riverside University of California)

Gebundenes Buch

Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 203mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781108839006
• ISBN-10: 1108839002
• Artikelnr.: 61494147