Description
| Product ID: | 9781108839006 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture |
| Title: | Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction |
| Authors: | Author: Sherryl Vint |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History, Archaeology, Religion and science, Impact of science and technology on society, Literary theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History, Archaeology, Religion & science, Impact of science & technology on society, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-07 |
