{"product_id":"science-fiction-and-posthumanism-in-the-anthropocene-9781350465954","title":"Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species' place within our own world, this book is a deep dive into the similarities between science fiction studies and critical posthumanism and how they can be read together\u003c\/b\u003e. Both fields fantasise about future technologies, envisage alienness through conversation with everyday life and both anticipate the Anthropocene as a dire source of rupture from the present. Drawing inspiration from these and other consonances, this book establishes a common theoretical ground between the two fields, upon which the two currents of future-oriented thought can meet and begin to share a common language.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An investigation that draws critical currency from the everyday condition of our species in relation to technology and our perilous situation in the Anthropocene, the book observes posthumanism not just as a theoretical framework that may be applied to science fictional ideas, but also as an integral part of how it is that science fiction is generated.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Featuring case studies of the work of prominent authors Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin and Kim Stanley Robinson, alongside the BBC television series \u003ci\u003eDoctor Who\u003c\/i\u003eand the cult videogame \u003ci\u003eOuter Wilds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScience Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003eformulates a new critical paradigm which recognises the value of such works to posthumanist thought. Addressing those with an interest in either academic discipline, it demonstrates that urgent discourses around our shared future are more imperative now than ever before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Jonathan Hay\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in English Literature and Data Science, University of Chester, UK. An Environmental Humanities researcher, they have guest edited two issues of the science fiction journal \u003ci\u003eH?lice \u003c\/i\u003eon speculative landscapes and are Book Reviews Editor at \u003ci\u003eJournal of Posthumanism\u003c\/i\u003e. They are also co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTalking Bodies Volume II: Bodily Languages, Selfhood and Transgression\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183459467538,"sku":"9781350465954","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d93c946-7186-42f1-9c6c-7c3c46d4e77a.jpg?v=1744467529","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/science-fiction-and-posthumanism-in-the-anthropocene-9781350465954","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}