The uncertain future of empathy : : posthumanism, cyberculture and science fiction / / edited by Elsa Bouet.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bouet, Elsa,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Toying with Intention: Embodiment, Empathy and Programmed Intentionality in New Media /; Virtuous War and UAVs: The ‘Inhibition’ of Friction and the Banalization of Violence /; Serial Communication Experiments: You Can (Not) Advance /; Cyberculture and Ethics in Generation A and Super Sad True Love Story /; Of Flesh and Bone: Finding Human Sameness in the ‘Skinjobs’ of Battlestar Galactica /; Dreams of Sheep: Humanity as a Discursive Formation in Battlestar Galactica /; In the Absence of Flesh, Bodies Made Anew: Transparency, Avatars and the Holographic Body in Hollywood Cinema (1980-2010) /; The Technological Utopia in Hollywood: The Surrogate as Contemporary Paradigm for Posthumanity in Surrogates (2009) and Gamer (2009) /; Marge Piercy’s Body of Glass and the Cyborg-Human Relationship: Fear or Hope for the Twenty-First Century /; Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers /; Bodily Imagination from Suprematism to Cyberpunk /; The Colonized Pastoral: Africa, Myth, Alienation and Blackness in Greg Bear’s Queen of Angels /; Imprisonment in the Fiction of Christopher Priest --; Totalitarian Literature: Realism and Reality /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1848883366
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Elsa Bouet.